Nature’s Engineers Part 2

While sampling at the Gulf Coastal Plains Wetland Mitigation Bank in Chambers County, I ran across this red- winged blackbird nest in one of the freshwater marshes. The bird made the nest out of dead stalks of Schoenoplectus californicus (California bulrush) weaved intricately between live stalks about 2 feet off the ground. Another extraordinary example of nature’s finest engineers.