[wisb] Re: Bluebird removes chickadee egg from nest box-Sawyer County
- From: "Bettie R. Harriman" <bettie@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,mugzy1960@xxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 06:03:05 -0500
Birds also like human hair for nesting material. About once a month
I give husband Neil his buzz cut (yes, that is what he
prefers). When weather permits we cut his hair just outside the
garage doors on the driveway. Last time, in late May, a day of so
after the cut, I noticed a Great Crested Flycatcher on the driveway
collecting the cut hair - beaks full - and all the while giving the
loud "reeeep!" call. He or she came and got hair over 2 days until
it was all gone. Fun to see.
Bettie Harriman
in her woods north of Oshkosh
At 09:17 PM 6/15/2014, Korkor Mary" (Redacted sender
"marekor@xxxxxxx" for DMARC wrote:
>Fascinating story! Thanks for sharing. Horse hair and dog hair also
>works for Chickadees.
>
>Mary Korkor
>Hartland, Waukesha County
>
>
>On Jun 15, 2014, at 6:40 PM, Rick Pertile <mugzy1960@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Yesterday I saw something that I found to be unusual, not so much
> that it doesn't happen with some bird species but rather I didn't
> realize eastern bluebirds would do this too.
> > I have a pair of chickadees that recently completed a nest near
> my front deck. There is also a pair of bluebirds showing interest
> in another house relatively close to this one. Yesterday morning
> the female bluebird saw the chickadee enter the nest and then flew
> down to the house where she was acting extremely anxious. She
> landed on the entrance hole and the other chickadee (guessing the
> male) made a few futile attempts to scare her off. She kept
> looking in and then finally entered. She was in the box for about
> 30 seconds and I had to wonder if she was beating the heck out of
> the chickadee inside the box. All of a sudden the female bluebird
> poked her head out and I could see she was removing an egg which
> she dropped about 3 feet from the box upon exiting.
> >
> > I was a bit taken back and about 10 seconds later the chickadee
> also exited the box. I'm guessing this was the first egg the
> chickadee had laid since there were no other eggs in the box (I
> checked afterwards) or perhaps it wasn't the first egg the bluebird
> removed. Later that afternoon I saw the chickadees going back in
> their house and again the female bluebird lading on the roof acting anxious.
> >
> > I figured I would do the chickadees a favor so I reduced the size
> of the entrance hole to 1 1/4 inches. This morning they were busy
> adding rabbit fur to their nest and the female bluebird could not
> gain access. The female bluebird then spent all morning today nest
> building in the other house she originally showed interest
> in. Everyone happy now including the landlord.
> >
> > Speaking of nest material for chickadees, if you have access to
> rabbit fur put it in a suet cage and hang it in trees. The
> chickadees LOVE it for lining their nest and I have also had
> chipping sparrows, pine warblers and redstarts use it on occasion too.
> >
> > Rick Pertile
> > Edgewater Township
> > Sawyer County
> >
> >
> >
> >
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