by A. T. Baron | Jan 16, 2014 | Education
While you are sitting in your home watching the big game or catching up on laundry, birds are diligently searching for food and trying to keep warm this winter. We tend to be preoccupied in our daily activities after the holidays and miss some of nature’s...
by A. T. Baron | Sep 6, 2013 | Education, NestWatch Data, Updates
As I write this, the roofers are working hard over my head. Home maintenance is important and that applies to our Bluebird nest boxes as well. Our first year of nest box monitoring has ended for the most part. Here are our final stats: As you can see, we did well for...
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 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 1, 2013 | Education, Updates
All of our volunteers have been working hard checking boxes and collecting data. We were able to get some display cases at the Clarence Town Library to show off what we do and what we have accomplished. I took some time today to decorated them with information and...
by A. T. Baron | Jun 12, 2013 | Education
Since it was a nice day today, I decided to get some pictures of the nest boxes at one of our sites. Every box is occupied by either an Eastern Bluebird, House Wren, or Tree Swallow. As you can see, it is not too hard to tell the difference in nest structure or...
