Boxes A and B continue to have little activity. Students are questioning whether predators, noise, or lack of people being around is causing birds to avoid these boxes.
Boxes 1 and 2 have the beginnings of nests in each. We watched a Tree Swallow and BlueJay fighting near box 1.
Box 3 Birds are growing like crazy.
Boxes 4 and 5 remain unchanged.
On Monday of this week, Box 6 had four hatched eggs, one unhatched egg and the cutest little birds ever. The parent remained nearby as we checked the box.
On Monday of this week, Box 6 had four hatched eggs, one unhatched egg and the cutest little birds ever. The parent remained nearby as we checked the box.
However, by Thursday it was apparent that the mother had not been returning to the nest the rest of the week as all of the babies were dead.