Monitoring of nest boxes for Wood Duck and Hooded Merganser has commenced at Huntley Meadows. We had planned to get started on 25 February, but we were rained out. From my first report:
As I expected, we already have nests started in the boxes. What I didn’t expect was that we have FIVE nests started, 4 Hooded Merganser and 1 Wood Duck. First out of the gate was the merg hen in box #67, already with 10 eggs.
Paul reported that box #13 may need some additional (unspecified) maintenance….
Interesting birds of the day included a Northern Harrier and one of our new regulars, Red-headed Woodpecker.