So tonight I walked out the front door to go throw apples out to the edge of the woods for the deer. We have a little sidewalk across from the front door that I have a long mulched flower bed against it. I did not see this nest yesterday, so it is new. I see not a thing flying around it. It is raised about 1 and half inches from the ground width of it is about 3-4 inches. The hole is centered and about an inch wide or slightly less perhaps? In all the years at the farm, I have never seen a nest like this and I have seen many yellow jacket nest in the ground in the pastures...but this?????? It almost resembles puppy chow with a hole in the center...and no, my dog was not in that area.,..or any other dog. HELP!
Would a hummingbird do that?
Meanwhile I am going to be watching it with binoculars in the morning to see what the heck made it.
I don't like stingy things.
That thing's a horror movie in a nightmare loaded.
That's okay, Dale, when you come for an overnight, we won't make you go out on the porch to visit it!
It's quite amazing. I can understand whey you kept relocating it. I assume it's currently vacant?
Okay
I'll call it an artmare.
Or me please
I am with you Dale
Yes it's been vacant since I cut the branch off the tree back at the turn of the century. And no, I won't make you go out on the porch either, Missy. Artmare indeed. Pshaw!
So did you ever discover what it was????
a mudholio
Although nothing was ever spotted going n or out of it we decided it looked more like a crayfish hole than anything. I smashed it down and nothing ever redeveloped from it, So it is still a mystery