Nesting pair. Nest is approx 2-3 feet in diameter, 25 feet up, so hard to be precise!
Found it dead indoors.
Found it dead indoors.
Found it dead indoors.
Deciduous mature coniferous tree,
~60' tall, conical shape, straight trunk, around 1-1/2' diameter,
light reddish brown bark, slender spreading branches, dwarf side branchlets,
needle like leaves clustered, attached to the twigs, slender, bright green, deciduous needles up to 1" long,
Monoecious, unisexual,
female flowers initially rose pink and then turns into egg-shaped brown upright cones, smaller than one inch,
cone has woodys sales and each bears two seeds at the base...
Sandy disturbed substrate of backdune
Under canopy of large elm
Growing on smaller elm with bindweed