Oh, Thank you Lara.... yes you might have seen it before. I don't have all my slides converted to digital yet...so I tend to use the few I have done over and over as examples.

I have a 3 ring giant binder with many sheets of slides of my work.

Upon thinking about it, that little nest might be a chickadee. We found one tightly wound inside peeling birch bark once. I'll have to look that up on Google soon. We have alot of warblers on the island upNorth, chickadees, a few robins and bluejays, nuthatches, woodland sparrows, but not many other birds. No goldfinches there. Or Cardinals, or Titmouse. We do have the beautiful pileated woodpeckers, and the other woodpeckers all nest really high up in dead branches or trunks. The Pileated dig their own holes in living trees... huge holes. They are impressive, and leave large chips all over the ground below. That is how we locate their nests. And I hear hawks scriiing so they must be up high too.

I really like to delve into the details and textures of wildlife. I tend to find and see things that others miss. I recall a small nest hubby cut down from a tree around the house..it was about 3 inches in diameter and abandoned in late summer. It had tiny snail shells in the bottom. I mean TINY... the ones with pointy shells, that live in shallow water. I always wondered at what type of bird lived there. They had thin shells, and which were transparent, like "baby" snails. We do have small black snails in the shallow water along the shore that eat algae on the rocks. I think some ducks eat those. But how these got into that nest is a mystery. Our land snails are round and don't have pointy shells. Oh, well...