[eloshwg] NE AR breeding
- From: Than Boves <tboves@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "eloshwg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <eloshwg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021 13:19:13 +0000
Our first hardcore breeding season research is off to a fast and furious start
too! I think we have 26 active nests (only in egg stage here), and very few
involve birds that were banded here during the winter (suggesting lots of
migrants here in the winter?).
Cool carry-over effect of winter bird community on our shrikes - they love to
line nests with snow goose feathers, which are only here in the winter (see
photo attached - from a nest 4 m up in a pine).
Have gotten lots of great support from landowners where shrikes are nesting too!
Than
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Jim Giocomo
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2021 10:26 PM
To: eloshwg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [eloshwg] Round Rock, TX nesting season update
Our nesting season started in early-March with pairing and nest building.
Today we had our first 2 nests of 12 hatch.
Our friends at Texas Parks and Wildlife trained our first volunteers (Master
Naturalists) to use an app to facilitate nest monitoring. Craig and Tania also
were able to spend some time in the (hot) afternoon to color band our first
bird.
Finally, I was able to place a few barbed-wire nest balls in tree adjacent to
the two nests that were predated, to offer some protective options for new nest
building. We'll see if we can entice any of our pairs to choose one of the
bowls I made with another bowl on top.
Jim
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James J. Giocomo, PhD
Central Regional Director and
Coordinator for the Oaks and Prairies Joint Venture
American Bird Conservancy
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