Yesterday 4/15, had a tree swallow checking out the birdhouses, heard a canyon wren,
Had golden eagle way overhead, and had a bear come through mid day. In cleaning out the 34 birdhouses I have up, I found unusual nesting material in a new, Slightly larger house than Bluebird, with a 2 in hole (I was hoping for a Hairy) about 9 Feet up on the side of a smallish dead ponderosa. Inside the box was about 1.5 inches of mostly pine needles with some VERY fine grass pieces. I've had tree and violet-green swallows, western and mountain bluebirds, pygmy and white-breasted nuthatches, house wren, kestrel, starling, house sparrow (once), chipmunk, and maybe a black-capped or mountain chickadee, but never seen any use of pine needles before. Any ideas, all you collected wisdom out there? Davis at 6,009 ft., 4 miles NW of Lyons, in open Ponderosa "Faith is believing what you know ain't so" Mark Twain --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Join us at the 2009 Convention in Alamosa: http://cfo-link.org/convention/index.php You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.as/group/cobirds?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
