Field Notes · Catnum 168576 · score 11 — high uncertainty
Nest situated 4 feet up in a white oak sapling five feet high, thickly covered with Virginia creeper vines, on edge of a thicket of low bushes in bushy field, by a road, about 20 twine upright handles and vine stems, well hidden. Substantially made of twigs, vine stems, weed strips and fibers (amongst hemp) & few dead tree leaves (of spicebush and beech), lined thickly with brown rootlets. Harrison's Meadow: by Axe Factory Woods.
Metadata · Catnum 168576
Date10 Jun 1926
LocalityBustleton, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Coordinates40.079465, -75.051789 ↗ map
CollectorMiller, Richard F.
Eggs in Set5
Specimen TypeE
Incubationslight (transcribed as “Slightly incubated”)
Identificationunknown (transcribed as “No birds about”)
Nest Height1.22 m (4 feet)
Nest Supportwhite oak sapling
Nest Materialstwigs, vine stems, weed strips, fibers, dead tree leaves
Nest Liningbrown rootlets
Nest Settingedge of thicket of low bushes in bushy field, by a road
Nest NotesSapling was five feet high and thickly covered with Virginia creeper vines. Nest was well hidden and substantially made. Dead leaves included spicebush and beech. Location: Harrison's Meadow by Axe Factory Woods.
Further Details5-Sep