Nests are placed in forks and crotches about three feet high in dogwood, willow, rose, coralberry, cottonwood, and thistles. The Breeding Birds of Kansas 2011-08-27T02:00:24.797Z
Trees were small in this part of the woods, with a well developed understory thicket of coralberry and sumac. Ecological Observations on the Woodrat, Neotoma floridana
Where nests are placed in low bushes, as coralberry or dogwood, the bush is invariably overhung by the foliage of a much taller shrub or tree. Natural History of the Bell Vireo, Vireo bellii Audubon