Google search "Song Sparrow nests" tells us this:
"Reproduction
Nest Type
Nest an open cup of grass, weed stems, leaves, and strips of plant
bark. Lined with fine grass, rootlets, and hair. Usually placed low
in grass or shrub, often on ground under tuft of grass.
Egg Description
Bluish green with brown spots.
Clutch Size
Usually 3-5 eggs. Range: 1-6.
from <http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/
Song_Sparrow_dtl.html>
You have more to learn about the wonders of the internet! Easy search.
There you go!
Lou
On Sep 24, 2008, at 6:39 AM, Syd Curtis wrote:
In Brisbane, Australia, I have just acquired (thanks to the wonders
of the
Internet and Amazon), a copy of the book Ford - The Men and the
Machine by
Robert Lacey (Little, Brown & Co., 1986). In it the author quotes
Henry Ford
I as writing (at the age of 50) of growing up on his father's farm:
The first thing that I remember in my life is my Father taking my
brother
John and myself to see a bird's nest under a large oak log twenty
rods East
of our home. I remember the nest with four eggs and also the bird and
hearing it sing. I have always remembered the song, and in later years
found that it was a Song Sparrow. I remember the log layed in the
field for
a good many years.
(Henry Ford's spelling)
Please excuse my antipodean ignorance, but do Song Sparrows really nest
under logs? And if not, what species' nest was it likely to have been?
TIA
Syd Curtis
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