Good point, Dave. This procedure has been around for many years, and
I've never seen it suggested that it's not legal, but you may be right.
Dave Nutter wrote:
Perhaps disturbing an active nest is technically illegal even if
in this particular circumstance when done properly it is beneficial
to the birds. The laws which a century ago ended the collection of
eggs, nests, feathers, etc., without permits are still in effect.
--Dave Nutter
On Monday, February 08, 2010, at 01:41PM, "Alan Mapes" <aama...@nycap.rr.com>
wrote:
Kurt - Tell me why changing the nest is not good. I've done this for 20+
years, and find it increasing the survival of young very nicely. The
adults will show concern while I remove the 10-12 day-old young from the
nest, sweep out the box, and replace the nest with dry grass. But the
parents go right back to feeding the young like nothing happened. I have
yet to see any down-side to this procedure.
Alan Mapes
Delmar, NY
Kurt Falvey wrote:
Over the past few years (since I moved back from Texas) I have been
buying a few cedar blue bird houses and every year we have several
pairs of blue birds. Unfortunately all too often we find dead baby
blue bird…even our friends 20 miles away thought about taking their
houses down because they are tired of finding dead babies. In most
cases blow fly larva were found under the nest.
I have read about adding bay leaves under the nest, changing the nest
out…which you are not supposed to do even though it works and I have
tried the wire mesh thing which kind of worked. The problem with the
wire mesh idea is you can’t effectively install it high enough above
the bottom of a stand blue bird house.
So this winter I have built all new blue bird houses adding about 5
inches to the height but installing the wire mesh where the bottom
would normally be. This way the nest is far enough above the floor so
if and when the blow flies fall to the bottom they won’t have anyway
to get back to the nest. In addition I removed all the existing blue
bird houses and reduced the hole size so blue birds will no longer be
able to use them. We put those in the woods for chickadees, wrens,
nuthatch, etc.
So once and for all I will find out if the wire mesh idea really
works. I will keep you posted.
*Julie & Kurt*
*Broken Road Farms*
*www.BrokenRoadFarms.com*
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