Bluebirds in Lake Park

Lake Park Birders:

Barb Johnson and Jean Casper volunteered last year to monitor
bluebird houses in Lake Park. At least one box had a pair going in
and out of it early last spring, but there were no successful nests
last year. There were bluebirds back in Lake Park as of 3/31/09.

--- Paul Hunter,
http://home.roadrunner.com/~phunter1/lakeparkbirds.html
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From: Barbara Johnson barbjoh@hotmail.com
Date: May 6, 2009 7:23:57 PM CDT
To: Paul Hunter phunter1@wi.rr.com
Subject: RE: Bluebirds in Lake Park

One of the nest boxes had 5 eggs when I checked it on May 1st.
Another box has chickadees. On Tuesday Bob K. from Lake Park and I
picked out a few more places to put new nest boxes and he will be
installing them as soon as he has time. He is also going to replace
some of the boxes that open on the bottom with side opening ones,
making it possible to monitor them accurately.

Someone attached a box to the fence at the lawn bowling green, but no
one seems to know anything about it. I have been thinking about how
the bluebird boxes
came into existence and it was coordinated by Delores. She knew that
Bob K. was interested in installing boxes and that I was interested
in monitoring them. One morning last spring Delores, Bob, Brian
Hansen and I met and chose locations for some of the boxes. After
they were installed by Bob, Jean Casper volunteered to help monitor
them with me. We each took one day a week.

There was one successful nest, although construction of the nest made
it impossible to determine how many eggs hatched and how many
fledged. One box had
chickadees and two had house wrens. It was kind of experimental year.
After the new nest boxes go in and the others are reconfigured we
will be able to follow monitoring guidelines.

Barb