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Funkiest

Nests that make you wonder what the birds were thinking!

Birds on a Ladder

Lila Johnson

Yorba Linda, CA, USA

  • 3
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Risky Business

Sara Silva

Inwood, NY, USA

  • 8
  • 0

Bird nest on a stop sign

Carrie Buterbaugh

Indiana, PA, USA

  • 4
  • 0

The Bird’s Antlers

St Paul Lutheran ECC

Appleton, WI, USA

  • 7
  • 0

Sharpest Looking Nests Around

George A Housley

Phoenix, Arizona, EE. UU.

  • 9
  • 0

There’s a Nest on My Truck

Stacy Amos

Rosenberg, TX, USA

  • 15
  • 0
Overall Grand Prize Winner

Rookie mother??

Tu Fangyu

Taiwan, 台灣

  • 13
  • 0

Nest behind the thermometer.

Mary Beth Roen

River Falls, WI, USA

  • 12
  • 0

Hornets leave & Bird moves in

Robert Wurzburg

Glen Gardner, NJ, USA

  • 14
  • 0

Finally! A Bear-Proof Nestbox

Kevin Corwin

Antonito, Colorado, USA

  • 13
  • 0

CHIPPER FLYCATCHER NEST

LAURIE LOGAN

Monroe, CT, USA

  • 12
  • 0

funky nest

william neuman

Seattle, WA, USA

  • 13
  • 0

Industrial Robins

Sean Clinning

Elizabethtown, KY, USA

  • 14
  • 0
First Prize Winner

Bird for brains

Christy Vogt

Kennesaw, GA, USA

  • 13
  • 0

woven materials

Sarah Macdonald

Mataranka Northern Territory, Australia

  • 14
  • 0

Finch nest in porch rafters

Joan Anderson

Albert Lea, MN, USA

  • 12
  • 0

Eastern Phoebe Nest

Jenifer Kramer

Coon Rapids, MN, USA

  • 14
  • 0

Bird’s-eye view of Curwood Castle

Glen Wunderlich

Owosso

  • 15
  • 0

Trail registration

Emily Weiser

Durand, WI, USA

  • 18
  • 0

Fishing Bullock’s Orioles

George A Housley Jr

Santa Cruz Lake Road, Chimayo, New Mexico, USA

  • 15
  • 0
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