Field Notes · Catnum 103353 · score 5 — moderate uncertainty
Made of twigs and grass + mud lined with fine grass. Placed 20 ft. up in live spruce tree. | 20 ft. up in live spruce tree in swamp, made of tamarac sticks and lined with fine grass, a little mud was used.
Metadata · Catnum 103353
Date20 May 1930
LocalityFawcett, Westlock, Alberta, Canada
CollectorTwomey, Arthur C.
Eggs in Set4
Specimen Typee
Incubationslight (transcribed as “slight | partly”)
Identificationpositive (transcribed as “sure”)
Nest Height6.1 m (20 feet)
Nest Supportlive spruce tree
Nest Materialstwigs, grass, mud, tamarac sticks
Nest Liningfine grass
Nest Settingswamp
Nest NotesTwo slightly different descriptions of the same nest are provided in the field notes.
HeaderOOLOGICAL COLLECTION OF J. C. BRALY
Further Details050 5375 | 1/4/1930
✦ Anecdote
The field notes contain two different descriptions of what appears to be the same nest, with slight variations in the materials described (twigs vs. tamarac sticks).