by A. T. Baron | May 6, 2014 | Education, NestWatch Data
We recently added a new page to our site. The Our Boxes page has a list of our current nest boxes. When you click on the box you can view a pop-up of how the box is performing this season. A running total of eggs, nestlings and fledglings will be given for each box. I...
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 | 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 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...
by A. T. Baron | Jun 10, 2013 | NestWatch Data, Updates
This past Friday, June 7, we had five more Bluebirds fledge. According to our organizational leader, a week and a half ago, we had to intervene and replace the nesting material because Blowflies had infested it. The rainy weather increases the chance of Blowflies and...
