Tuesday, July 1 at 7:30 a.m. (Bluebird Walk #2) … Tuesday, July 15 at 7:30 a.m. (Bluebird Walk #3). NOTES: Join Bruce Buckle and Fred Stiner for an exciting bluebird nest box inspection walk at Rider ...

I observed a female chipping sparrow with something in it’s beak. It looked like short, fine pieces of tan, dry grass.

This is especially hard on other cavity nesters, especially chickadees. Later on, we found another nest box occupied by tree swallows and a clutch of tree swallow eggs.

These include a family of robins nesting atop a rain gutter, phoebes (a small species of flycatcher) nesting on a woodshed rafter, a pair of tree swallows nesting in the martin house by our ...

Nest boxes help many species of birds, including eastern bluebirds, tree swallows and wood ducks, by providing protection during nesting season. Boxes for swallows and bluebirds are maintained by UWM.

With showers threatening, I headed south along the state highway, following the old railroad grade that cut through the swamps. I was on my way to meet a good friend that I hadn’t seen in quite a ...

The groups have put up dozens of nesting boxes for the insect-eating birds as part of a standardized tree swallow monitoring program, with financial support from the P.E.I. Wildlife Conservation Fund.

Tree swallows in central P.E.I. have some new homes, thanks to five watershed groups in the area. The groups have put up dozens of nesting boxes for the insect-eating birds as part of a standardized ...

Be that as it may, the nest of a tree swallow is just about as luxurious as you can imagine. Fresh dry grasses must lend a wonderful aromatic to the inside of the box, similar to the smell of dry ...

The Friends of Maybury has eight volunteers who check their 10 or so boxes once a week. Tree swallows and Black-capped chickadees will also nest in the boxes.