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Submitted		NameStreetCityStateZipPhoneemailCountyBoxesBluebirds
Fledged		Tree
Swallows		House
Wrens		Black-Capped
Chickadee		OtherWhat hindered
bluebird nesting?		Interesting Experience?Question:PairedTrail
12/05/2009 Russ Guard 156 Co Rt 44 Argyle NY 12809 guard@hvwisp.net Washington 45 202 21 0 0 0 No opinion Own
12/05/2009 Russ Guard 156 Co Rt 44 Argyle NY 12809 guard@hvwisp.net Washington 45 202 21 12 12 0 house sparrow aggression and a wet August prevented a record year Higher BlueBird Use Own
05/06/2010 tom manley 103 manley rd norwich NY 13815 Tfmanley@roadrunner.com Chenango 8 0 2 1 0 0 tree swallow competition. inspected today, may 7,2010: box with six unhatched. box with two very early hatchlings and one unhatched egg. box with three broken eggs abandoned. two boxes with tree swallows Higher BlueBird Use Own
10/29/2009 John & Janet Nicol 1179 St Hwy 37 Hammond NY 13646 nicol42@live.com St. Lawrence 10 10 0 0 0 0 No opinion Own
11/02/2009 Cindy Adams 572 Pig St Norwood NY 13668 cadams11@twcny.rr.com St. Lawrence 8 4 4 2 0 0 I would say the rain.We also had a pair of nesting owls in the area so I think this is why they didn't stay for a second nesting.About three weeks ago I had 10-12 of them visit. Higher BlueBird Use Own
10/28/2009 White Haven Memorial Park 210 Marsh Road Pittsford NY 14534 nate@whitehavenmemorialpark.com Monroe 6 9 0 0 0 0 Sparrows Neither Higher nor Lower Use Own
10/25/2009 Carol Haak 3350 Blossom Lane North Tonawanda NY 14120 716-692-6585 hakca@verizon.net Niagara 25 41 40 0 0 0 I lost 10 BB nestlings probably to an animal that got into the nest. I lost 18 eggs. Tree Swallows built over a couple of nests. I took down 6 boxes and put up new boxes with a slanted longer roof. Hopefully this well keep any animals out. Lower Bluebird Use Own
10/20/2009 Charles & Patti Caruana 2285 Thiel Road North Collins NY 14111 7163370144 dauntbmbr@roadrunner.com Erie 20 25 1 5 0 0 none noticed watching the blue birds feed on our blueberries and currants. No opinion Own
10/17/2009 Bruce Rickmyer 7814 Old Floyd Road Rome NY 13440 tannerb@twcny.rr.com Oneida 2 9 0 0 0 0 No opinion Own
10/17/2009 iRENE wOOLSTON 13893 park ave waterport, ny NY 14571 gwoolsto@rochester.rr.com Orleans 8 8 2 0 0 0 The House Wren!!!! awful bird We had a blue bird trying to make a nest in the box--but house wren kept putting sticks in it also. Wren all ready had a nest a ways from the BB. Finally the BB gave up and moved away. How to get rid of house wrens. We finally took down all the wren houses that were on the trees. We heard them in the neibors yard-singing like mad. We have some trouble with house sparrows too. Higher BlueBird Use Own
10/08/2009 Maureen Triller Elm Street Champlain NY 12919 Clinton 22 29 8 0 0 0 No opinion Route 11
10/09/2009 Loren & Phyllis Parker 228 Barnaby Road West Chazy NY 12992 Clinton 27 25 15 0 0 0 No opinion Own
10/16/2009 rebecca daddazio 172 smith rd poughkeepsie NY ny cabin8@optonline.net Dutchess 5 13 0 0 0 0 I had an ant problem and received excellent advice from the cornell website. All turned out fine. Also I recently had a mouse nest in one of the houses. The nest was never fully finished during the second nesting. It was only 1/2 the size of a normal nest. There were 5 eggs laid but only 3 fertilized. No opinion Own
10/03/2009 Milton Adams 680 County Route 18 Lake Clear NY 12945 (518)327-3000 adkvicadams@yahoo.com Franklin 85 50 85 3 7 0 The cold wet weather that we all had in June and July. I had a chickadee nest in late May. When the tree swallows arrived they took over the chickadee nest even though I had another (paired) nest box next to it. The chickadees went to the empty box and renested. Then the bluebirds arrived and took over tha Has anyone had the need to put three nest boxes(trio)up? Has it worked? Neither Higher nor Lower Use Own
10/02/2009 Bryan Braun 72 Duncan Phyfe Lane Slingerlands NY 12159 karnbry@hotmail.com Albany 39 48 9 0 0 0 Sparrows. They disrupted 5 nestings, killed 2 moms and their 7 eggs, killed 7 young and 4 eggs. One of the nestings was disrupted by a sparrow. During on of my monitoring visits there was a horrifying stench I noticed as I approached the box. I opened the box and started to clean out the nest and mangled young, when I found to my surprise and deli No opinion Own
10/02/2009 Bryan Braun 72 Duncan Phyfe Lane Slingerlands NY 12159 karnbry@hotmail.com Albany 8 14 4 0 0 0 Eggs that weren't viable. I had a series of nestings that didn't hatch. I am not sure why, it may have had something to do with the rain early in the season. No opinion Own
10/02/2009 Bryan Braun 72 Duncan Phyfe Lane Slingerlands NY 12159 karnbry@hotmail.com Albany 23 34 25 0 5 0 One word, sparrows. I removed 43 sparrow eggs or young. They killed 4 bluebirds, 8 bluebird eggs disappeared and they killed 4 swallows. A second problem was all the rain early in the season. Regarding question 7, if you view paired boxes as a single nesting site, the utilization of "nesting sites" is higher. However if you view each box as a nest site the utilization is lower. In other words, box utilization would be higher by BB's if each No opinion Route 20
10/01/2009 Dave & Mary Hofer 11389 Sharp Street East Concord NY 14055 716-592-5735 dhofer@hughes.net Erie 80 188 10 1 0 0 No major problems this year,however rainy damp weather toward the end of the nesting season seemed to cut down the number of late nests on my trail and the clutches seemed smaller than usual toward the end of June and early July No opinion Own
09/27/2009 Scotty Gladstone 1021 Turnpike Road East Meredith NY NY scottyg@delhitel.net Delaware 5 6 1 1 0 0 Higher BlueBird Use Own
09/26/2009 Robert Grajewski 294 Ostrum Rd Kirkwood NY 13795 607-775-5041 rgrajewski@verizon.net Broome 18 13 4 2 1 0 No opinion Own
09/26/2009 Robert Grajewski 294 Ostrum Rd Kirkwood NY 13795 607-775-5041 rgrajewski@verizon.net Broome 6 14 0 0 0 0 Something pulling nestlings from box. No opinion Route 11
09/18/2009 Judy Derry 4813 Sturbridge Lane Lockport NY 14094 NiagaraBA@nysbs.org Niagara 44 47 10 0 0 0 Youth vandalism of nestboxes. As a result of the vandalism, I replaced the nail closures with star-head screws. This is the first year that I have placed a sparrow spooker on all my bluebird boxes after the first bluebird egg was laid and removed the spookers right after fledging. No eggs or chicks were lost to House Sparrow predation. Higher BlueBird Use Own
09/17/2009 Donald W. Muckey 3102 Phillips Rd. Marathon NY NY 607-849-3349 cmuckey@aol.com Cortland 12 0 10 2 0 0 tree swallows Lower Bluebird Use Route 11
06/17/2009 wayne knolhoff 37 bush gardens alden NY 14004 wknolhoff@aol.com Erie 1 0 0 0 0 0 i had to put a screww for the birds to roost on they kept falling off nest door No opinion Own
08/04/2009 Gordon McCall 1400 Plank Rd Webster NY 14580 gmannova@hotmail.com Monroe 2 9 0 0 0 0 Sparrows broke all 6 eggs in the first clutch. I trap and dispense year around but you cant get them all. This prevented my Bluebird pair from having 3 broods due to lost time. No Wrens this year. They usually make trouble for the Bluebirds then end up taking my second box. Nice not having them causing trouble for a change! No opinion Own
08/04/2009 MICHELE SKUBIS 6188 lincoln road ontario NY 14519 Wayne 2 7 0 0 0 0 just the rainy weather I lost my male blue bird 2 days after the hatching of my second brood -he must have died because i have had the pair there now for 2 seasons, my female had alot of responsibility on her own - i began leaving her daily a supply of meal worms so she could with my male gone my female will obviously search elsewhere for another male, is it possible the baby blue birds will return next spring and start a brood of their own in my yard? Higher BlueBird Use Own
08/19/2009 Susan Dean 111 Rosecrans Ext Nassau, New York NY 12123 sdanemones@aol.com Columbia 24 36 0 0 0 0 I had some broken eggs with the eggs taken out of the boxes, broken with just a small hole and left outside the boxes on the ground. I had much competition from the swallows this year at our box at home. I found the BB's nested later and I only had one Neither Higher nor Lower Use Own
08/24/2009 Jim Engelbrecht 18 Stewart Street Rouses Point NY 12979 518-297-3278 jime@twcny.rr.com Clinton 61 42 18 0 1 0 Losses of first brood birds due to the cold and wet weather this spring. Ron Howe and I monitored nest boxes together one fine day this spring at the Barracks Golf Course in Plattsburgh. Later that day we were joined by David Vivian, the course owner. We put a young bluebird in David's hands and took a good close up photo. I No opinion Route 11
09/03/2009 Dan Willman 270 hwy rte 20 Sharon Springs NY NY 13459 lov2fsh2002@yahoo.com Schoharie 28 32 0 0 0 0 rain Higher BlueBird Use Route 20
09/04/2009 Nancy and Harry Stabler 186 Rock Rd Vestal NY 13850 Broome 4 10 0 2 0 0 Neither Higher nor Lower Use Own
09/04/2009 William E. Zitek PO Box 667 Shelter Island Hts. NY 11965 631-749-2766 wezent@optimum.net Suffolk 39 36 74 12 0 0 Actually the 36 Bb fledged came from 8 of the boxes and this is the mosat we have had fledge to date (over 9 years). The timing of bad weather (cold and rain) came near the end of the first nesting allowing success but caused the second nesting to be del Bluebirds which had a successful fledging delayed their 2nd nesting by 2 weeks or so due to rain and cold weather. We usually have 2 nestings but only 2 pair did so this year Higher BlueBird Use Own
09/15/2009 Niles F Brown 137 Crooked lake road Tully NY 13159 NFBDLJB@yahoo.com Onondaga 15 14 36 0 0 0 Lost 4 about 10-12 days old about May 10-12. Weather bad. Actually saw blue birds defend a box against tree swallows this spring. Higher BlueBird Use Own


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