I was quoting info from an out-dated bird guide...here is the best info
available from Dr. Sarah Sloane herself...I have added it to the blog:
*Incubation is about 16 days and the time the kids are in the nest is at
least 18 days (I need to change incubation time in the BNA account). So
you have a good 34 days for each nest! If you’re lucky, there will be two
broods in the nest before the summer is up. They do reuse the same nest
after fledging the first (but never the next year) The kids just fledge
out of the nest entrance. No damage done. The only time a nest gets torn
is from predation or nest material thieves (usually goldfinches, but
sometimes other bushtits in the same flock). *
Thanks for the corrections...some of us still believe in science.
--
Harry Fuller
author of: *San Francisco's Natural History: Sand Dunes to Streetcars:*
https://ecowise.wordpress.com/2017/04/20/sfnh/
author of *Great Gray Owls of CA-OR-WA*:
https://ecowise.wordpress.com/2015/05/08/the-great-gray-owl-book/
author of *Freeway Birding*: *freewaybirding.com
<http://freewaybirding.com>*
birding website: http://www.towhee.net
my birding blog: atowhee.wordpress.com
