2025 NYSBS Annual Conference

2025 NYSBS Annual Conference

Join us at the 2025 Annual Conference, which will be held on May 3, 2025 @ 8:30 am – 3:30 pm, at Cayuga Blu Hotel in Ithaca, NY. This year’s theme is “Bluebird Celebration—Springing Into Birding.” We’ve moved our conference to the spring to better provide you with...
2021 Year-End Results

2021 Year-End Results

Fall is in the air, and the birds are preparing to head to warmer pastures or snuggle down for the colder weather. Our little group has finished with our nestbox monitoring for the year, and we were pleased to watch the many young birds fledge from our boxes. The Len...
Nest Box Summary: June 2020

Nest Box Summary: June 2020

Well, here we are in June. I would typically write more posts about our little group’s preparation for the new Bluebird season earlier. This year we were hit with a pandemic and some extra chilly weather in late spring. Although we started checking boxes in...
2019 Year End Results

2019 Year End Results

It’s that time of year again—the leaves are changing, the days are getting shorter, and there’s a chill in the air. The Bluebirds recognize when summer is over, and nesting comes to a halt. Our volunteers finish cleaning out the nest boxes and make repairs...
Nest Box Summary: July 2016

Nest Box Summary: July 2016

Even though many of our lawns are brown from lack of rain, we have been busy with our nest boxes this year. I intended to post an update earlier in the season, but we ran into a few hiccups with entering data on the NestWatch site. After spending a couple of days...