Field Notes · Catnum 167260 · score 2 — low uncertainty
Placed a meter up in a dense, dome-like tangle of wild grape vines ten feet high and 4 feet thick, depending from a sapling in a thicket by a belt of trees along Pennypack Creek 75 yards from stream. Completely hidden and loosely constructed - made of vine tendrils, a thick layer of grape vine bark strips and lined thickly with dodder stems, deeply cupped and of average size.
Metadata · Catnum 167260
Date28 Apr 1924
LocalityBustleton, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Coordinates40.071799, -75.04381 ↗ map
CollectorMiller, Richard F.
Eggs in Set3
Specimen TypeE
Incubationfresh
Identificationflushed (transcribed as “9 found, flushed from nest”)
Nest Height1.0 m (1 meter)
Nest Supportdense, dome-like tangle of wild grape vines
Nest Materialsvine tendrils, grape vine bark strips
Nest Liningdodder stems
Near Waternear water
Nest Settingsapling in a thicket by a belt of trees along Pennypack Creek
Nest NotesCompletely hidden and loosely constructed, deeply cupped and of average size. Located in grape vines ten feet high and 4 feet thick, 75 yards from stream.
HeaderOological Collection of Richard F. Miller, Philadelphia, Pa.
Further Details90
✦ Anecdote
This record is unusual for documenting 9 Northern Cardinal eggs in a single clutch, which is exceptionally large as cardinals typically lay 3-4 eggs per clutch.