Claudia and I cleaned out the nest boxes at the garden today. Here are a few of the nests we found. Top, is a tree swallow nest, with an unhatched egg shown at the top of the image. Tree swallow nests are mostly made of dry grasses and lined with feathers.

on the left is a great-crested flycatcher nest. This one was made of a variety of material, including pine needles (and a small pine cone), feathers, leaves, and finely shredded vegetation. There were three dessicated insects in the nest: a japanese beetle, a trigonarthris long-horned beetle, and a large green stinkbug.

on the right is a house wren nest, composed primarily of small twigs, a few feathers, some grape vines, and a small amount of plant fibres, with a depression on one side where the eggs were laid. The nest entirely filled the nest box, with just enough room for the wren to enter.