didn't want to do it...
Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2017 8:27 pm
i watched a bird enter the bird box that the bluebirds are nesting in and didn't think it was a bluebird...a few seconds later a bird stuck it's head out and dropped a bluebird egg shell, i thought maybe the chicks were hatching but i know the bluebirds will take the shells some distance from the nest to dispose of them so as not to expose the nest to predators...then another egg came out and i could tell by it's trajectory that it was not empty...it was a house wren and it had pecked a hole in all 5 eggs, i dropped it with a shot right through the head...
i don't like messing with mother nature but the whole reason for the boxes that i purchase and assemble and care for are for the bluebirds as so many non-native species have taken over their natural sites...i love the house wren's song and it's the first one i've dropped in the 35 odd years i've been cultivating the bluebird population...i now attribute the house wrens to so many bluebird nests that the bluebirds have abandoned in the past...i will continue to control the house wrens as i do the house sparrows and starlings and cowbirds...zp...
i don't like messing with mother nature but the whole reason for the boxes that i purchase and assemble and care for are for the bluebirds as so many non-native species have taken over their natural sites...i love the house wren's song and it's the first one i've dropped in the 35 odd years i've been cultivating the bluebird population...i now attribute the house wrens to so many bluebird nests that the bluebirds have abandoned in the past...i will continue to control the house wrens as i do the house sparrows and starlings and cowbirds...zp...