FreeLists / birdky / [birdky] Re: Kestrel Nest Box

["lyneart" <lyneart@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joyce,
  There's just one thing to do. Tell a friend you have a "minute job" you
need done and then after they agree tell them to put up a second nest box.
Frank Lyne frank@xxxxxxxxxxx near Dot in Logan County
----- Original Message -----
From: "joyce porter" <joycelporter@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 7:30 AM
Subject: [birdky] Kestrel Nest Box


>
> 2-14-03
>
> On this damp, drippy day my friend Wavy came by at 6:30 AM to check out
the
> 20 ft high nest box for cleaning. As he started to climb the ladder, he
> looked up and called my attention to an Eastern Screech
> Owl with its head framed in the entrance of the box. The commotion of
> climbing the ladder had jarred it awake.
>
> We made a quick retreat and put the ladder away.
>
> Now I'm wondering what the Kestrels will do. I saw them copulating
> yesterday on a lower branch of the walnut tree in the yard, hence the
> urgency of getting the box ready. Joyce Porter Falls of Rough, Ky


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