Ranger Pete: Students today monitoring observed some wonderful bird interactions at many of the nest boxes on campus. Box 1 revealed 5 Eastern Bluebird eggs and a fight between the male Bluebird and a Chickadee.
Mrs. Laubscher's class:
In box #2 there were two nests (blue bird and chickadee), but none of the birds were in there because carpenter bees had taken over. Ranger Pete said that he saw the blue bird and the chickadee fighting over another nesting box.
In box #5 we saw the beginning of a house wren nest, but in a tree near it we saw another nest with three baby birds that had just hatched and one egg that was left to hatch. They were robin babies and egg. The mom was making a nervous/angry call near the nest because she saw us looking at it. We also saw a crow flying around looking for food and it may have been looking at the baby birds.
Mrs. Laubscher's class:
In box #2 there were two nests (blue bird and chickadee), but none of the birds were in there because carpenter bees had taken over. Ranger Pete said that he saw the blue bird and the chickadee fighting over another nesting box.
In box #5 we saw the beginning of a house wren nest, but in a tree near it we saw another nest with three baby birds that had just hatched and one egg that was left to hatch. They were robin babies and egg. The mom was making a nervous/angry call near the nest because she saw us looking at it. We also saw a crow flying around looking for food and it may have been looking at the baby birds.
| LDMS Nest Box Observations from Week Four 5-4-15 |
