Power poles are common sites for bird nests in the desert and on the plains. This raven has a huge nest made up of the usual sticks and also cloth strips, barbed wire, baling wire and some big pieces of something.
Here’s a close-up of the nest construction.
Along highway 60 east of Mountainair, New Mexico, USA.
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August Break 2014
Aren’t birds amazing!
Barbed wire, yowch! Such a contrast with the tiny hummingbird building its nest from spider silk and dandelion fluff. Birds really are amazing!
I hadn’t thought of that. They are amazing!