Brown Creepers make a cup of moss, bark strips, and twigs placed behind
loose strips of bark on the trunk or sometimes in a cavity.


Patti Brent
Monroe, WA. p.brent at worldnet.att.net

From: S. Downes <sdownes at u.washington.edu>
To: lydia <lydia at wizards.net>
Cc: Tweeters!!! <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 7:58 PM
Subject: Re: Birding The Green River/BROWN CREEPER?


>
> On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, lydia wrote:
>
> > BROWN CREEPER (creeping around that huge snag near Riverwood & Signature
> > Point Apartments in Kent) I'm pretty sure it was. Do they nest in
snags?
>
> Brown creepers nest under peeled fragments of bark in older trees. If you
> know their song Brown Creepers are much more common than people are aware
> of, they're just pretty hard to see. I usually hear 10x more than I see.
>