Nest Identity

[Rolfe 2]

This nest was on the path this morning obviously ripped from the flowering cherry tree just above my porch by a crow or magpie. My guess is that it is a goldcrests nest but not 100% sure it is lined with cavity wall insulation that next doors had done this year. Definitely not a chaffinch, but i have seen the odd pair of greenfinches as well as a pair of goldcrests about. The flat sides to the nest tell me it has been in the fork of the tree....so what do you folks think.

[byron 1,188]

This nest was on the path this morning obviously ripped from the flowering cherry tree just above my porch by a crow or magpie. My guess is that it is a goldcrests nest but not 100% sure it is lined with cavity wall insulation that next doors had done this year. Deffinately not a chaffinch, but i have seen the odd pair of greenfinches as well as a pair of goldcrests about. The flat sides to the nest tell me it has been in the fork of the tree....so what do you folks think.

greenfinch....

[dogs-n-natives 1,182]

looks very very similar to a greenfinch nest I had in the conifer at my back wall a few years ago... exept my pair used moss instead of the insulation.... i reckon greenfinch too.

[craig33 10]

gold finch id say

[J Darcy 5,871]

I was thinking Goldie, but the size looks a bit big.

The greenies i have found have all had much more vegetation than that...JD

[Rolfe 2]

I was thinking Goldie, but the size looks a bit big.

The greenies i have found have all had much more vegetation than that...JD

 

Yes thats why i think goldfinch to be honest.......they line the inside of the nest with a lot of "downy" material...... much more than the Greenfinches tend to do which as you say, tend to have a lot more vegetation as well.

[DUCKWING 302]

DEFO GOLDFINCH ......

TYPICAL SITE , FLOWERING TREE IN THE CROOK OF A BRANCH .............

 

MORE MOSS AND IN DENSE COVER LIKE A CONIFER .... IT WOULD BE A GREENIE

 

 

COME ON ROLFIE ....... CALL YERSELF A PESTIE ............ : THEY ARE THROWING NESTS AT YER FRONT DOOR

 

 

ALL THE BEST

 

 

DUCKWING

[OldTrapCollector 377]

Yep - goldfinch

 

OTC

[buckshot 53]

defo goldfinch i think

[Tis TM 8]

This nest was on the path this morning obviously ripped from the flowering cherry tree just above my porch by a crow or magpie. My guess is that it is a goldcrests nest but not 100% sure it is lined with cavity wall insulation that next doors had done this year. Definitely not a chaffinch, but i have seen the odd pair of greenfinches as well as a pair of goldcrests about. The flat sides to the nest tell me it has been in the fork of the tree....so what do you folks think.

 

No idea, but get yer larsen out!!!

[Rolfe 2]

COME ON ROLFIE ....... CALL YERSELF A PESTIE ............ : THEY ARE THROWING NESTS AT YER FRONT DOOR

 

DUCKWING and TIS TM.............Yep Larsen being sorted as we speak..........God don't you just hate the corvids when they ravage such a beautiful birds nest or any nest for that matter........Justice will be done though.

 

Regards

 

Rolfe.

[THE POACHER 13]

i used to be a pro nester its def a chaffinch