Re: Requiem for a groundhog

[ric carter <ricc@mindspring.com>]

Hey Clyde--

Enjoyed the groundhog post, it cleared up what I thought was a startling
sighting a few months ago.

I had G-C Flycatcher nest in a newspaper box in Washington, Beaufort County.
Had affixed it to a tree in the hardwood bottomland on my property on
Tranter's Creek. 

Nothing special on mounting. I simply put it as high as I could reach. I had
a few discarded boxes from the Washington Daily News where I worked at the
time. After a few calls from readers over the years reporting bird nests in
their paper boxes, I took a few old ones home and put them around the yard.

Off the top of my head, I don't remember anything but Carolina Wrens and GC
Flycatchers nesting in them.

Ric Carter
Garner/ Little Washington



> From: Clyde Sorenson <clyde_sorenson@ncsu.edu>
> Organization: NCSU Dept. of Entomology
> Reply-To: clyde_sorenson@ncsu.edu
> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 12:34:20 -0400
> To: Carolina birds <carolinabirds@acpub.duke.edu>
> Subject: Requiem for a groundhog
> 
> All,
> 
> Just thought you might like to know that the groundhog I saw near
> Clayton (and believe to be an early colonizer), and that started a
> notorious thread on expanding wildlife that ultimately resulted in one
> very enthusastic young lady birder abandoning this list serve after
> being flamed by list purists, was killed by a car last Thursday morning.
> Karmic justice, perhaps?
> 
> To avoid having the propane burner cranked up under my own seat, I
> report the second brood of bluebirds on my 1 acre property for the year.
> The box they are in previously flegdged a brood of Carolina chickadees;
> the previous bluebird nesting (best I can tell, same pair of adults) was
> in my martin house (yet to produce a single martin, btw!).
> 
> Take care,
> 
> Clyde Sorenson
> clyde_sorenson@ncsu.edu
> Clayton and Raleigh, NC
> 
> p.s. I remember someone saying something about using a newspaper tube
> for a great-crested flycatcher nest box- anyone have more details?
>