nest locations was Re: Requiem for a groundhog

["Cathy Green" <catag57@hotmail.com>]

On nesting birds in paper boxes,
When I delivered mail in rural areas, I would often encounter the Eastern 
Bluebird nesting in old mailboxes with their doors off and half way on, also 
Carolina Wrens, (very opportunist birds for nest sites IMHO).  Always 
worried me though, being by the roads.
I have since wanted to put an old mail box somewhere in my yard habitat. 
Thanks for the post, it has encouraged me to go and do it.
Cathy Green
N.Augusta, SC
catag57@hotmail.com


----Original Message Follows----
From: ric carter <ricc@mindspring.com>
To: <clyde_sorenson@ncsu.edu>, Carolina birds <carolinabirds@acpub.duke.edu>
Subject: Re: Requiem for a groundhog
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 19:11:54 -0400

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?
 >


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