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Home > Blogs > Birds and Butterflies > Archives > 2009 > May > 28 > Entry

Bluebird Nesting Success

By Doug Horvath | Thursday, May 28, 2009, 03:51 PM

We at Germantown Metropark have put out a number of bluebird boxes in several locations in the park.  This year, as most years, we got more other occupants than we did bluebirds.  For example, of 14 boxes near our reservable shelters, four were occupied by tree swallows, one by a house wren, one by a Carolina chickadee, and only one by a bluebird,  We track the use of these boxes carefully and knew there were young bluebirds in the one box, but we also knew this was no guarantee than these young would fledge sucessfully.
We were very pleased today, May 28th, when one of our staff observed two juvenile bluebirds with their parent in the area of the box.  They were flying strongly and beginning to hunt for insects on their own.  An increase in our bluebird population is always good news.

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