Nestbox Monitoring Frequency (Part 1)

Subj: Frequency of nest checks
Date: 7/29/99 10:33:06 PM Central Daylight Time
From: Bluebd1"at"aol.com

Dick Walker,..Loogootee, IN ...

Under normal conditions I usually check my 150 some boxes every week, that is up until last year when due to various (some legit) reasons, I only checked my trails 10 times during the whole season. I know, this is totally inexcusable. However, last year was my best year ever (Fledged 686) in over 18 years of Bluebirding. During this good year I had 19 boxes containing three individual, successful nests, fledging 12 to 16 birds out of each box. And, each box had at least one double nest, that is a second nest was built over the old one before I got back to clean out the box.

Did I learn anything from this...? Is there, perhaps an advantage to leaving old nests in the box...? One thing I did notice was the top nest was always very shallow. Do the birds like to have their second nest already half complete..? Did I do the same thing this year..? No,..even though I was tempted, I cleaned out almost every old nest before they started building a second nest over it. Since this year appears to be the worst I have ever had, next year I may resort to leaving the old nests in the box.

Having, what I call a low vent PVC box, don't recall ever having any trouble with blow flies, so I don't think the dirty nest creates a problem in this area One final word about everyone building a "better mousetrap," or rather Bluebird box, that is... Build, or use what ever box that works for you. After all, who will deny the fact that their's is the best. I know mine are..!!!! My door is open for thoughts and ideas.

Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 10:06:51 -0400
From: "Gary Springer" springer"at"alltel.net
Subject: Excessive nest box interference

Also, there have been many posts from folks who have apparently been closely watching nest boxes while under investigation by birds, followed by nest building. During these phases there is plenty of activity around the nest box. It's hard NOT to notice them.

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