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Submitted		NameStreetCityStateZipPhoneemailCountyBoxesBluebirds
Fledged		Tree
Swallows		House
Wrens		Black-Capped
Chickadee		OtherWhat hindered
bluebird nesting?		Interesting Experience?Question:PairedTrail
10/07/2011 Deb Wines 4429 McCloy Road Cortland NY NY 12045 607-423-2124 dwines54@gmail.com Cortland 8 4 7 0 0 0 It was a very cold, wet spring. For the first time, a bluebird laid white eggs.The first clutch contained 3 eggs which were destroyed by sparrows. The second clutch (in the same box) contained 4 white eggs. All BBs from that clutch fledged. I am assuming it was the same female! What is the longest amount of time for the babies to stay in the box before fledging? Higher BlueBird Use Own
10/04/2011 Judy Derry 4813 Sturbridge Ln. Lockport NY 14094 ehderry@aol.com Niagara 48 68 11 0 2 0 I had two nestings of one pair of bluebirds during the 2010 season in a box in our front yard. The adults and 4 of their chicks hung around all winter (I fed them mealworms). By March 2011 the chicks disappeared and the adults stayed around but a pair o Higher BlueBird Use Own
09/20/2011 Donna Day 2849 route 3 cadyville NY Ny 12918 5186456108 duckyday1@hotmail.com Clinton 6 11 0 0 0 0 No opinion Own
10/01/2011 Jim Kunz 454 Ashley Rd Maine NY 13802 jrfk2@yahoo.com Broome 1 8 0 0 0 0 No opinion Own
10/02/2011 Dave & Mary Hofer 11389 Sharp Street East Concord NY 14055 716 592 5735 dhofer@hughes.net Erie 74 196 16 0 2 0 House Sparrows This year our nesting season started very late due to heavy rains and cold weather,however we didn't get any prolonged cold rainy days aas a result we had a very good year. The on thing that I didn't see many of was paper wasps. They are usually a problem Higher BlueBird Use Own
09/20/2011 Robert Grajewski 294 Ostrum Rd Kirkwood NY 13795 607-775-5041 Broome 6 2 2 1 0 0 Wet rainy spring seemed to hold the number down. Higher BlueBird Use Route 11
09/20/2011 Robert Grajewski 294 Ostrum rd Kirkwood NY 13795 607-775-5041 Broome 12 5 5 3 0 0 Higher BlueBird Use Own
09/20/2011 Donald Muckey 3102 Phillips Rd. Marathon NY NY 13803 607-849-3349 cmuckey@aol.com Cortland 10 0 0 0 0 0 TS Here at my place this year there was 7 bluebirds fledged in two nestings. Lower Bluebird Use Route 11
09/13/2011 Kelly Hendrickson 1467 Rowley Jerome Road Fabius NY 13063 Krhendrickson@Hughes.net Onondaga 1 4 0 0 0 0 the birds fledged less than 2 days before hurricane Irene hit. Not sure how many made it. Found one fledgling dead at base of tree near nest box, several days after hurricane went thru. My first experience with BB nesting in my yard. Tree swallows have nested in this box previous springs. The BB nested during summer. Old box, never cleaned out, the BB nested on top of old tree swallow nest. The box did not open so I could not properly mo After the BB fledged, I removed the old box and ended up throwing it out. It was cheap, old and falling apart. It was also not mounted in an ideal location or orientation. I researched ideal location and I put up two new boxes in a better location and ori No opinion Own
09/13/2011 Kelly Hendrickson 1467 Rowley Jerome Road Fabius NY 13063 Krhendrickson@Hughes.net Onondaga 1 4 0 0 0 0 the birds fledged less than 2 days before hurricane Irene hit. Not sure how many made it. Found one fledgling dead at base of tree near nest box, several days after hurricane went thru. My first experience with BB nesting in my yard. Tree swallows have nested in this box previous springs. The BB nested during summer. Old box, never cleaned out, the BB nested on top of old tree swallow nest. The box did not open so I could not properly mo After the BB fledged, I removed the old box and ended up throwing it out. It was cheap, old and falling apart. It was also not mounted in an ideal location or orientation. I researched ideal location and I put up two new boxes in a better location and ori No opinion Own
09/13/2011 Bryan Braun 72 Duncan Phyfe Lane Slingerlands NY 12159 Karnbry@hotmail.com Albany 23 32 8 0 0 0 Sparrow issues near town. No opinion Route 20
09/13/2011 Bryan Braun Rt 85 72 Duncan Phyfe Lane Slingerlands NY 12159 Karnbry@hotmail.com Albany 38 35 25 0 0 0 Sparrow near town. No opinion Own
09/13/2011 Bryan Braun Cherryvale 72 Duncan Phyfe Lane Slingerlands NY 12159 Karnbry@hotmail.com Albany 8 5 0 0 0 0 Sparrow issues. No opinion Own
09/13/2011 Kelly Hendrickson 1467 Rowley Jerome Road Fabius NY 13063 Krhendrickson@Hughes.net Onondaga 1 4 0 0 0 0 the birds fledged less than 2 days before hurricane Irene hit. Not sure how many made it. Found one fledgling dead at base of tree near nest box, several days after hurricane went thru. My first experience with BB nesting in my yard. Tree swallows have nested in this box previous springs. The BB nested during summer. Old box, never cleaned out, the BB nested on top of old tree swallow nest. The box did not open so I could not properly mo After the BB fledged, I removed the old box and ended up throwing it out. It was cheap, old and falling apart. It was also not mounted in an ideal location or orientation. I researched ideal location and I put up two new boxes in a better location and ori No opinion Own
09/11/2011 Elaine Crossley 630 Sandberg Road Frewsburg NY 14738 716-569-3257 crossleyej@gmail.com Chautauqua 53 82 8 6 3 0 With 25 successful Bluebird nestings and only 10 unsuccessful, the season was great this year. Last year I had 59 fledge & this year, 82. The most perplexing problem in my area is bears. My neighbor lost her 2 week old tree swallows. Raccoons also caus I found 4 tree swallow eggs and 2 bluebird eggs in the same nest. Tree swallow adults were near by. TS incubated but the BB eggs did not hatch. The TS eggs hatched but young died at about 12 days old. I also had one TS nest that did not contain any whit Lower Bluebird Use Own
09/06/2011 Terry Rising 1012 Jordan Drive Palmyra NY 14522 trising@rochester.rr.com Wayne 20 21 8 6 0 0 Started to monitor old bluebird house sites at local park. This includes 8 square homes left unmonitored for years. I built and added 4 Peterson houses. These 4 yielded 9 of 14 bluebird fledgings while one old non-Peterson yielded 5 fledges in June the Neither Higher nor Lower Use Own
09/08/2011 Carol Hardenburg 6631 Ellicott Rd. Portland NY 14769 cjhardenburg@yahoo.com Chautauqua 5 21 1 0 0 0 Babies that were in one box first week of May, with cold temperatures & rain died. Was aware of 2 boxes along Rt. 20 in Portland & Ripley where babies died that week also. House Sparrows killed Bluebird babies in one box & started nest of their own. I threw out 5 sparrow eggs. Next time I checked box, Bluebird had was using sparrow nest & successfully fledged 3 babies. Neither Higher nor Lower Use Own
06/23/2011 annette maxon 15021 marsh creek rd kent NY 14477 annettemaxon@yahoo.com Orleans 1 3 0 0 0 0 No opinion Own
07/20/2011 Ed Levine 11 Carolanne Drive Delmar NY 12054 edxaide@gmail.com Albany 1 4 0 0 0 0 for the first time bluebirds have nested right out front in birdhouse near driveway, road, and front door. There are other birds in the past and others in other houses on same tree. not sure how many little ones now. Do not know if I should try to see as No opinion Own
07/30/2011 Jemiolo Langford Road New Oregon NY 14111 maggiejemiolo@rigidized.com Erie 1 4 0 0 0 0 About a week after the babies hatched, the female disappeared. The male bluebird took care of the babies alone and today they all left the nest and successfully flew into the pine trees in our yard. He was a hard worker and did a great job taking care o Higher BlueBird Use Own
08/15/2011 Gordon McCall 1400 Plank Rd Webster NY 14580 gmannova@hotmail.com Monroe 2 5 0 0 0 0 House Sparrows are always a problem, especially in the spring months. I haven't had wrens in 2 years. I tried a sparrow spooker for the first time this year with excellent results. I had a sparrow attacking my bluebird nest box(with eggs)and as soon as I put up the spooker the sparrow lost interest and moved on. I had no problems after that. No opinion Own
09/04/2011 Susan Dean 111 Rosecrans Ext. Nassau NY 12123 518-766-7489 sdanemones@aol.com Rensselaer 27 49 0 0 1 0 I had no problems this season on the trail. It was a great year for me! I tried placing just one box along Route 20 instead of pairing. I had two successful nestings in that box. By changing some locations last fall I think improved the number of fledglings. I also had two friends from Columbia County report that they had Neither Higher nor Lower Use Route 20
09/05/2011 Bill Zitek po Box 667 Shelter Island Hts NY 11965 631-749-2766 wezent@optonline.net Suffolk 43 48 52 7 0 0 Our first Bb nest and clutch (1st egg 4/13/11) was attacked by tree swallows which destroyed the eggs and took over the nest--this despite the box being one of a paired set 12 feet apart. Seaon started off great with many Bb eggs laid but several abandone I placed boxes back to back on the same post in two areas this year and both were successful: Bb in one and Ts in other- got along fine. At this same site, a Kingbird (which nest about the same time as the TS) attacked the male Bb on its box. The Bb held a Tree Swallow Question--- Did anyone experience lower tree swallow numbers ( and shallower nests)this year? Higher BlueBird Use Own
10/15/2011 Russ Guard 156 Co Rt 44 Argyle NY 12809 guard@hvwisp.net Washington 47 209 8 4 2 0 On track to beat 2010 record of 213 fledged with 5 active boxes in mid August when a house sparrow caught a nesting female on her nest of 5 nearly grown chicks - pecked off the top of her head and the chicks starved/dehydrated under her. Higher BlueBird Use Own
10/20/2011 Scotty Gladstone 1021 Turnpike Road East Meredith NY 13757 scottyg@delhitel.net Delaware 4 3 0 0 0 0 Predation. The male found another mate and nested late. First nest was abandoned. Higher BlueBird Use Own
10/21/2011 john boettcher 510 lake road webster NY 14580 585-671-9639 johnwb2@rochester.rr.com Monroe 14 8 4 3 0 0 House Sparrow competition for nest boxes. How persistent House Sparrow are in terms of occupying nestboxes. They just keep coming. No opinion Own
10/24/2011 Phyllis + David Smith 15 Bridle Lane Dryden NY NY 13053 607-844-9167 dsmith266@twcny.rr.com Tompkins 51 37 54 0 1 1 English sparrows Higher BlueBird Use Own
10/25/2011 Margaret Reek 3090 Griffin Rd Churchville NY 14428 mmr-nysbs@cs.rit.edu Monroe 11 15 2 1 0 2 I lost one nest of young birds due to driving rains and cold weather that dampened the nest and the birds died of hypothermia. The box itself was fine and has been used successfully for years but some new combination of factors let the rain come in. No opinion Own
10/26/2011 Washington County Fair 392 Old Schuylerville Road Greenwich NY 12834 518-638-2464 Washington 35 49 8 0 1 0 On the 106 acres of the Washington County Fair grounds, a trail of 35 bluebird boxes was successfully established, and monitored by Mike Newell. Russ Guard provided house sparrow traps to eradicate them from the fair's buildings in the process of propagat No opinion Own
10/30/2011 Kathy Barany 7800 Indian Hill Road Manlius NY 13104 3156827946 kbarany@twcny.rr.com Onondaga 5 0 2 0 0 0 Fighting off sparrows. I had three pairs of bluebirds build nests and lay eggs. Two of them were ravaged by a racoon and the third looked like another bird got it. Over the past two weeks (early to mid October)I have seen multiple pairs of bluebirds checking out the nesting boxes. They have been here multiple times. What gives? Higher BlueBird Use Own
11/02/2011 Charles Caruana 2285 Thiel Road North Collins NY 14111 dauntbmbr@roadrunner.com Erie 7 9 1 2 0 0 No opinion Own
11/04/2011 Nancy Buck 22 Crabapple Court Orchard Park NY 14127 7168704084 buckn97@yahoo.com Erie 4 7 0 0 0 0 house sparrows Higher BlueBird Use Own
11/06/2011 Gail Martin 5445 Leete Road Lockport NY 14094 rgm72173@hotmail.com Niagara 8 12 2 1 0 0 July temps in the 90's killed 5 nestlings that just hatched. I saw my bluebirds in an uproar one morning at their box. I knew something was wrong ( after having them nesting in my field for over 20 yrs., you know). So I ran out to the box, only to scare a house sparrow out of there. He had already killed one of the Higher BlueBird Use Own
11/08/2011 Richard J Holzschuh 4266 Sweden-Walker Road Brockport NY 14420 5856372164 rholzschuh1@rochester.rr.com Monroe 30 24 12 12 0 0 Disturbing decline in tree swallows overall. A dry July brought many more bluebirds than usual to our birdbath. Obviously the first time for some fledgling birds. It was funny to watch as they stumbled about to follow the lead of their parents. Quick studies, they were pros in no time! They lov Higher BlueBird Use Own
11/09/2011 Kathy Luther 15 Sherwood Forest Road Albany NY NY 12203 518-608-4243 bluejayny@nycap.rr.com Albany 87 133 15 3 1 0 As always, house sparrows. Any box close to a house was in danger. We had a box with a flying squirrel sleeping inside. it stretched out its front legs and we could see the webbing under its arms. I have been banding bbs for many years. This year I recaught 16 of my birds. Of these only 4 were adults and 12 were last years fledglings. Why are the babies staying and not dispersing? Higher BlueBird Use Own
11/13/2011 Jim Engelbrecht 18 Stewart Street Rouses Point NY 12979 518-297-3278 jime@twcny.rr.com Clinton 51 66 14 2 2 0 Predators wiped out 2 early bluebird broods and 1 tree swallow brood. Chief suspect wears a black face mask. Paired boxes (8 feet apart) had complete BB nests on May 2nd. 1st box - 5 eggs laid and BB's fledged June 13th. 2nd Box - 5 eggs laid begining June 19th and BB's fledged Aug 1st. Nest Box Holes are being enlarged from inside box. Probably by something small with fur. Red squirrel? Chipmunk? Mice? Other? No opinion Route 11
11/13/2011 Pat Birkett 32 Woodhaven Drive Rouses Point NY 12979 Clinton 22 24 9 0 0 0 No opinion Route 11
11/13/2011 Maureen Triller Elm Sreeet Champlain NY 12919 Clinton 28 54 10 0 0 0 No opinion Route 11
11/13/2011 Bonnie StCyr 56 Miner Road Plattsburgh NY 12901 518-314-1372 shanebonnie@charter.net Clinton 22 18 8 0 0 0 No opinion Route 11
11/16/2011 Kathy Venette 5952 State Route 145 Sharon Springs NY NY 13459 518-284-2864 kvenette@yahoo.com Schoharie 3 0 1 0 0 0 The bluebirds attempted to build nests in 2 of the boxes, but the tree swallows kept them away. A house wren also tried to make a nest in the other box we have while the bluebirds were "checking it out", and chased them away. It did not have any fledgings I was upset because the house wren was building a nest in one of our bluebird boxes, and chasing our bluebirds away so they couldn't build there. I "removed" the nest out before the house wren laid any eggs. Is that a wrong thing to do? Are there any nest No opinion Own
12/30/2011 Terrence Tickle 30 Lanark Cres Rochester NY 14609 ttickle@frontiernet.net Monroe 13 4 6 0 1 0 A mother BB was killed when she intruded into a tree swallow nest box. There was a super abundance of tree swallows this year. Several nests had 7 eggs. They were even nesting in adjacent nest boxes ( we have all our nest boxes in pairs about 15 ft apart - except one ). This is our 11th year of keeping records of our BB nest boxes and this year was the lowest value of "Bluebirds produced per nest box" that we have ever seen. Wondered if this was just my experience or was a more general phenomenon? PLEASE NOTE: I live in No opinion Own


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