Good morning -
Isn't it time some common sense was introduced to the regulations
regarding collecting eggs, feathers, etc? Thank you, Alan, for sharing
your experience.
Our experience parallels Alan's. Mesh has not been an effective blowfly
deterrent for us. Kurt's experiment will be interesting.
Judy Guinan at Radford University in Virginia is working to determine
the extent to which blowflies contribute to nestling stress - worth
watching.
David Smith
Dryden NY
Alan Mapes wrote:
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"
<[email protected]> 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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