The striped strips are very fine plastic-feeling fibers. Nest builder had an eye for beauty. I don't know what bird built it. It fell from very high limb-crotch of a black walnut tree. beautiful. It feels sacred to me, or some other deep response I can't define. It's a nest.
delicate, and very small
My eyes are delighted with the two colours of grass or stems of some kind, that the builder used.
Nest in barberry shrub; end of 2nd winter.
Nest originally in a limb-crotch of crab-apple tree. such a lovely oval shape.
Earlier in the day that I found this feather, an eagle, a bunch of ravens, and a hawk, had had an unusually fierce territorial dispute. Unusual because what I see most often are crows harassing a hawk or eagle, not ravens. Raw, noisy, primal goose-bumps action.. Later in the day, just before dusk, I found this at the edge of one of my blue spruce trees. Not certain yet what bird this is from, or if it is just coincidence that it was laying/lying almost directly underneath the dramatic air-fight.
