Sunday’s report:
Ducklings on the ponds and traffic jams in the parking lot: it’s mid-spring!
On Sunday, we saw three boxes hatched out, as well as box #2 in the process of hatching. Photographers reported 21 fledglings leaving box #6 on 21? 22? April. [We cleaned out 7 dead eggs from this box—this was our dump nest box for the season.] And we have one new clutch started and incubating in box #61.
Box #2 with pips visible in three eggs.
In box #10, we saw sticks and veg indicating that a songbird might be interested in using the box.
So we have seven active clutches to check on our next work day. Since 12 May is Mother’s Day, we will next meet in three weeks, on 19 May. We will check all the boxes at this time, and after that we will only do spot checks for any boxes that continue to have activity….
Thank you for listening to my dumb jokes!
