by A. T. Baron | Aug 15, 2013 | NestWatch Data, Updates
The birds have certainly been busy. We have just seen many new birds fledge and I thought I would give you some numbers. To date we have had ten Tree Swallows, forty-two House Wrens, and twenty-two Bluebirds fledge. The Bluebird total is from thirty-three eggs...
by A. T. Baron | Jul 31, 2013 | Education
With the breeding season chugging along, many of the volunteers have discussed adding cameras to the boxes. Nest cams are a great tool to watch the brood and parents in the nestbox. We still need to do research on the type and cost of this technology, but it sound...
by A. T. Baron | Jul 28, 2013 | Uncategorized
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by A. T. Baron | Jul 24, 2013 | Education, NestWatch Data, Updates
The other day a group of our volunteers headed out to check on the nest boxes at one of the sites. We were concerned about blowflies in one of the nests, so we brought some extra supplies in case we had to clean it out. This usually consists of gloves, a bucket (for...
by A. T. Baron | Jul 11, 2013 | NestWatch Data, Updates
We have been actively monitoring our nest boxes and the data is in. I delayed putting it on the Cornell NestWatch.org site because they were down for maintenance. Luckily, I have printed data check sheets that I used to keep track of the data as our volunteers sent...
