Date: 5/17/26 4:10 pm From: flyingcarlini via groups.io <flyingcarlini...> Subject: [NEBirds] Mississippi Kite nest tree mutilation
Hello birders,
Today we checked the Woodsdale Blvd. oak tree where MIKIs have been know to nest the past 3 years and found that formerly magnificent big full tree has been mercilessly pruned during the city's current tree-chopping rampage and is now a bare skinny unrecognizable skeleton of its former self, no nest visible so presumably that branch was chopped off and big horizontal branch that adults always preened on is gone - a giant branch fell last summer during insane 91 mph winds but that's no justification to turn that grand tree into a largely leafless sprig.
