[Mnbird] Nesting Season Begins!

[Stan - Molly Jo Miller Johnson]

Last night, around 7:30 p.m. I watched a female White-breasted Nuthatch take chunks of oak bark into a hole in our home's fascia. This will be the 3rd year of nesting there. Today she is still taking in some oak bark, but is also going to our cedar tree and pulling off thin, bark strips. Then she added some thin poplar bark, and went back to the cedar. The male is not helping at all.  In the past I've seen the male help, and their nest-building has been later in the season: late April and early May.
Today I went out to clean the feces out my nestboxes that were used for roosting over the winter. They were all already clean! There was a long grass in one of my Troyer boxes and quite a bit of long grass in another; it wasn't a full nest base, but quite a bit. The male and female Eastern Bluebirds showed up as I was ending my box check. They began going in and out of my Peterson and Gilbertson boxes and, of course, the Troyer with the grass pile.
Two Blue Jays were hanging together and going between deciduous trees and a cedar.
I love spring!
Molly Jo MillerInver Grove Hts, Dakota Co. 		 	   		  
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.lists.mnbird.net/pipermail/mnbird_lists.mnbird.net/attachments/20150413/07940cc7/attachment.htm>