by A. T. Baron | Mar 28, 2014 | Uncategorized
Our first meeting has been rescheduled for Saturday, April 26 at 10:15 am at the Clarence Public Library. We hope that many will be in attendance. If you are unable to be there and would still like to be a park of our organization, feel free to contact us. Many hands...
by A. T. Baron | Mar 13, 2014 | Updates
Our initial meeting on Saturday, March 15 is canceled due to unforeseen circumstances. We will reschedule a new meeting, TBA. We hope this is not too much of an inconvenience for anyone. In the meantime, keep your eyes and ears open for the migrating birds. The...
by A. T. Baron | Feb 25, 2014 | Updates
The Clarence Bluebird Trail will be having their first meeting of 2014 on Saturday, March 15 at 10:15 am at the Clarence Public Library, located at 3 Town Place, Clarence, NY 14031. Please stop by if you are in the area and would like to find out more about our...
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 | 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...
