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Early Breeders--Brood Patch



HI . . .

In keeping with the recent thread about early breeding, I thought I'd 
mention that this morning at Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural 
History near York SC I re-trapped a banded Carolina Wren with a 
highly edematous incubation/brood patch.

I've got six jillion nestboxes on the property, but she's not in any 
of them. I suspect she's on eggs close by, but chicks are always a 
possibility the way global warming is going.


Happy Birding,

BILL
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BILL HILTON JR., "The Piedmont Naturalist"
Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History
1432 DeVinney Road, York, South Carolina 29745 USA
hilton@hiltonpond.org, (803) 684-5852, eFax: (503) 218-0845

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