[va-richmond-general] Re: Nests

Caroline, you need to stop putting out cotton balls for nesting material.
Once it gets wet the little chickies get chilled and develop pneumonia.  You
need to rip into Johns synthetic sleeping bag and pull out a couple of
handfuls of that high tech polyester fiberfill material and spread it around
the yard.  Then stuff the cotton balls back into the sleeping bag.  He will
never know.
jk
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Caroline Coe" <johncaroline@xxxxxxxx>
To: <va-richmond-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 6:44 PM
Subject: [va-richmond-general] Nests


> We have put some cotton bolls out on the deck and the House Finches and
> chickadees just love it.  They carry beaks full off to various sites (the
> House Finches seem to have group nest sites in the English ivy on a
> neighbor's tree while the chickadee is across the street in a bluebird
> box).
>
> This evening the male bluebird had a territorial fight with another
> chickadee over a box out back.  Other boxes are available, but what makes
> one box "choice" is known only to the birds!!
>
> The season has begun - we know the wrens are somewhere but haven't found
> out where.
>
> Caroline & John
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