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The Pendant Nest of a Northern (Baltimore) Oriole

After being given a pendant nest my girls were challenged to find out what bird built the nest.

A couple days ago during homeschool club, a good friend of ours, who knows of my girls' interest in birds (and that we've been studying birds for the last few months), presented Jerah and Joely with a little gift — a beautiful little pendant nest they had found on a broken branch. But being the homeschooling mom that she is, our friend didn't tell the girls what kind of bird made the nest. Instead, she challenged the girls to do a little research and find out for themselves.

And Joely, my little six-year-old, eagerly took her up on the challenge. When we got home, Joely immediately picked up our Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds and started flipping through each and every one of the picture plates in the book, looking for a picture of a bird with a nest like the one we were given. When she came upon this picture, she exclaimed that she had "found it!"

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And sure enough, we emailed our friend who had given us the nest, and she confirmed that it was the nest of a Northern (Baltimore) Oriole — at least as far as she could tell from the research she had done.

Can I just say that Joely was ecstatic that she figured it out on her own? And I was pretty impressed too, considering that only a small portion of the Oriole's nest is visible in the picture. Joely's quite the little sleuth!

I thought I'd share some pictures of the nest as well. It's in excellent condition, although it's obviously unusable due to the broken branch. It's amazing that these little Northern Orioles are able to weave such an intricate nest of strings and fibers. As a human being, I'd have a hard time making a similar nest myself, yet God created these little creatures with the ability to do this without having to be taught!

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By the way, if you happen to know if our identification of this bird nest is incorrect, please let me know!

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Comments

  1. Ashley says

    January 9, 2009 at 10:37 am

    What a lovely little nest! So cozy!

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  2. Sherry says

    January 9, 2009 at 8:48 pm

    What a cool looking nest! 😀

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  3. Kiva, Farmstead Lady says

    January 9, 2009 at 9:54 pm

    Beautiful nest and love the homeschool investigation aspect. We had the honor and pleasure to watch a momma robin build a nest from scratch even after her first attempt was destroyed in a terrible windstorm and yes it is absolutely amazing.

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  4. Susan says

    January 9, 2009 at 10:37 pm

    I agree. No human could probably do it as well. It's lovely and I think it's great that she challenged your girls to identify the bird who made it. An "A" for this homeschooling mama.

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  5. Tammy Williamson says

    January 9, 2009 at 10:38 pm

    very inspiring story…thanks for sharing!

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  6. Rhen @yestheyareallmine says

    January 10, 2009 at 10:25 pm

    That is so cool!
    Our big nest find was a hummingbird nest. So tiny!

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  7. Mary @ Raising 4 Godly Men says

    January 13, 2009 at 11:18 pm

    This is one of the coolest S&T's ! I have for a VERY long time wanted to see one of these in real life but being sooooooooo far North I don't know when that will happen. lol But it was a lot of fun to live it through a fellow hs blogger mama. Thank you for sharing this ! That was really neat to her your dd's finding out which bird it was with researching. Way to go girls !

    I hope you join in the fun again.
    Blessings in Him<
    -Mary

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