New Season On The Nestbox Trail
We started a new season on our nestbox trail last weekend. We have eight boxes up right now, spaced about 200 to 300 yards apart which means the trail is over a mile long. We plan to put up six … Continue reading →
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Black-crested Titmouse Confirmed
My friends and bird experts, Jaci Kroupa and her son, Jesse Huth, were kind enough to confirm my tentative identification of the Black-crested Titmouse in one of our nest boxes. Here’s the photo again, taken on April 1st. I think … Continue reading →
Checking the Nest Boxes
Now that there are eggs in most of our nestboxes, I’ve been checking them weekly to see how they’re doing. Here’s a photo of one of our two Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis) nests. It looks like two of the eggs … Continue reading →
Walking The Nest Box Trail
We walked our nest box trail today, as part of our wildlife management activities. We have eight boxes up now, with plans for more. We put them up in October last year and have been checking them semi-regularly since. We’re … Continue reading →
Nest Boxes – Moving In
I checked three of our blue bird nest boxes last week and they all showed signs of nest-building! I happened to go by two of them as I was trucking water out to the wildlife water dishes and decided to … Continue reading →