On one of the field trips at the WOS meeting last year in we saw
Ash-throated Flycatchers nesting in a vertical pipe.

Dan Logen
Stanwood


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Dossett" <phainopepla at yahoo.com>
To: <hawkowl at shaw.ca>; <charlie at birdwright.com>; "Tweeters"
<tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 12:52 PM
Subject: Re: Spring day in the yard


> Hi,
>
> Your note about the chickadees nesting in an uncapped
> pole is interesting. I wonder if any other tweeters
> have seen this before? a vertical cavity which is
> open on the top is definately an interesting place for
> the nest. Last spring a pair of black-capped
> chickadees built a nest in a 4 foot tall rusted pipe
> that stuck out of the ground vertically near the
> research lab where I work on the University of
> Washington campus. They began laying a clutch but
> then the nest was abandoned.
>
> Michael Dossett
> Bothell, WA
> phainopepla at yahoo.com
>