[cayugabirds-l] Bird nest que.

2011-10-18 Thread Betsy Darlington
What cavity-nesting bird(s) use a lot of moss in their nests? We were cleaning out our boxes yesterday (we have 14), and two of them were made up mainly of moss. In 38 years of tending these boxes, I've never seen that before. Bluebirds and Tree Swallows are our main nest box occupiers, with an

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Bird nest que.

2011-10-18 Thread John Confer
Hi Betsy, My bet is on chickadees. Check out http://www.nature.net/forums/load/bird/msg0501291817883.html?12. John Confer On 10/18/2011 3:02 PM, Betsy Darlington wrote: What cavity-nesting bird(s) use a lot of moss in their nests? We were cleaning out our boxes yesterday (we have 14), and

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Bird nest que.

2011-10-18 Thread Donna Scott
] Bird nest que. What cavity-nesting bird(s) use a lot of moss in their nests? We were cleaning out our boxes yesterday (we have 14), and two of them were made up mainly of moss. In 38 years of tending these boxes, I've never seen that before. Bluebirds and Tree Swallows are our main nest box