FreeLists / birdky / [birdky] Re: [birdky]Kestrel puzzle

["joyce porter" <joycelporter@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Frank,

In response to Frank's report on failed nesting of Kestrel
pair, I submit the following:

It appears there are young in my one nest box(it is my under-
standing that Frank has several boxes). I haven't had the time
to monitor the box at Short Creek in Grayson Co but the adults
are now stationed periodically in a Sycamore tree-top down by
creek and when I walk near the pole on which the box is mounted
the Kestrel pair becomes highly agitated. Joyce Porter Falls of
Rough, Ky.


>From: "lyneart" <lyneart@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: <birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [birdky]  [birdky]Kestrel puzzle
>Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 06:49:28 -0500
>
>This message didn't take for some reason. I unsubscribed, then 
>resubscribed. Maybe it will work this time.
>Frank Lyne near Dot, Logan County,KY
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: lyneart
>   To: birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>   Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 10:31 AM
>   Subject: Kestrel puzzle
>
>
>   Today I noticed my adult Kestrels going in and out of a new box I just 
>put up this past winter (meant to be for owls). I had been seeing them 
>earlier at their old box and it's now  late enough that I am usually seeing 
>young Kestrels peeping out and anticipating  their first flight. I looked 
>in the old box and found it contained 2 unhatched eggs and 10 pellets.  I 
>guess these eggs are infertile for some reason and they are trying again at 
>a new spot. I can't figure why the eggs would be infertile or why there 
>were only 2 of them. The Kestrels had been producing 4 or 5 young each 
>year. My only theory is that this might be a young, inexperienced pair that 
>has replaced the ones I had for the last several years.
>   Frank Lyne frank@xxxxxxxxxxx near Dot in Logan County, KY
>
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