Ranger Pete's Report:
Another exciting week of nest box monitoring has come and gone. Our baby Bluebirds are doing well and growing fast. The female Bluebird can be often seen shuttling food to her chicks from the drop off/pick up loop when waiting in line.
Our American Robin nest near box 5 has neared fledgling stage as the chicks have gotten too big for their nest and are climbing around the bush still being fed by both attending parents.
It was a bit unnerving to have Tree Swallows diving at me while checking on them in Box 4 and also good to see the attention the male gives to "protecting" the nest too.
Mrs. Rowsey's Report:
Box 1: We saw baby bluebirds. They look gray right now. They were not fuzzy like we imagined they would be. They have not opened their eyes yet.
Box 4: We saw 5 eggs that have not hatched yet. We saw the dad guarding the eggs. Then we saw mom go into the box. We imagine that she is trying to keep the eggs warm. We also noticed lots of white feathers in the nest. The temperatures were over 100 degrees in the box. Wow!!
Mrs. Laubscher's Class Report:
Box #1 – We saw eastern bluebird hatchlings. They were sleeping in the nest and there were four or five baby birds. We could see their little beaks, little wings and their tiny faces.
Box #2 – We saw the chickadee nest and then blue bird nest, but the carpenter bees have taken over the box with their own nest and there were about four bees in the box. One looked like a baby bee.
Box #4 – There was a mother tree swallow in her nest and she decided to come out so that we could look. There were five pink eggs about the size of jelly beans. The male tree swallow almost attacked Ranger Pete because he was afraid that we were disturbing his nest. He was watching from the power line, but “dive bombed” us.
Box #5 – In that nest we saw that a house wren build a nest with a little hole in the middle. There was a small brown egg in the nest. Ranger Pete said that the egg had just been laid 3 or 4 hours before because there was only one egg in the nest.
Mrs. Squire's Class Report:
Box 4 had 5 tree swallow eggs. They looked like jelly beans. Box 6 had a tree swallow beginning to build a nest.
Another exciting week of nest box monitoring has come and gone. Our baby Bluebirds are doing well and growing fast. The female Bluebird can be often seen shuttling food to her chicks from the drop off/pick up loop when waiting in line.
Our American Robin nest near box 5 has neared fledgling stage as the chicks have gotten too big for their nest and are climbing around the bush still being fed by both attending parents.
It was a bit unnerving to have Tree Swallows diving at me while checking on them in Box 4 and also good to see the attention the male gives to "protecting" the nest too.
Mrs. Rowsey's Report:
Box 1: We saw baby bluebirds. They look gray right now. They were not fuzzy like we imagined they would be. They have not opened their eyes yet.
Box 4: We saw 5 eggs that have not hatched yet. We saw the dad guarding the eggs. Then we saw mom go into the box. We imagine that she is trying to keep the eggs warm. We also noticed lots of white feathers in the nest. The temperatures were over 100 degrees in the box. Wow!!
Mrs. Laubscher's Class Report:
Box #1 – We saw eastern bluebird hatchlings. They were sleeping in the nest and there were four or five baby birds. We could see their little beaks, little wings and their tiny faces.
Box #2 – We saw the chickadee nest and then blue bird nest, but the carpenter bees have taken over the box with their own nest and there were about four bees in the box. One looked like a baby bee.
Box #4 – There was a mother tree swallow in her nest and she decided to come out so that we could look. There were five pink eggs about the size of jelly beans. The male tree swallow almost attacked Ranger Pete because he was afraid that we were disturbing his nest. He was watching from the power line, but “dive bombed” us.
Box #5 – In that nest we saw that a house wren build a nest with a little hole in the middle. There was a small brown egg in the nest. Ranger Pete said that the egg had just been laid 3 or 4 hours before because there was only one egg in the nest.
Mrs. Squire's Class Report:
Box 4 had 5 tree swallow eggs. They looked like jelly beans. Box 6 had a tree swallow beginning to build a nest.
LDMS Nest Box Observations from Week Six 5-18-15 |