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Proud poppa taking care to feed his two youngsters. No birds were disturbed during this session - we were about 35 feet away inside our truck. The nest is located only about 6-8 feet away from a road and only about 3-4 feet above the ground (really risky in terms of predators, but it seems that cardinals/pyrrhuloxia are terrible about choosing nesting sites). Hopefully we will be able to continue to follow the nest through fledging.

The attached photo is of 4 Ash-throated Flycatcher nestlings. Notice how the nestlings blend into the nest's topping.

📸: By Lee Pauser

This observation was part of a nest box trail done in conjunction with the California Bluebird Recovery Program (CBRP), which runs the Cavity Nesters Recovery Program (CNRP). CNRP involves many volunteers across California who establish and monitor nest box trails for cavity-nesting birds. During the breeding season, these boxes are checked weekly for parasitism, predation, number of eggs, nestlings, and number of young fledged. Then at the end of the nesting season, volunteers submit their results to CBRP. We compile these results and submit them to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s NestWatch program and other interested organizations.

The oldest is about 6 weeks old. They are so cute!!!

📸: By Lee Pauser

This observation was part of a nest box trail done in conjunction with the California Bluebird Recovery Program (CBRP), which runs the Cavity Nesters Recovery Program (CNRP). CNRP involves many volunteers across California who establish and monitor nest box trails for cavity-nesting birds. During the breeding season, these boxes are checked weekly for parasitism, predation, number of eggs, nestlings, and number of young fledged. Then at the end of the nesting season, volunteers submit their results to CBRP. We compile these results and submit them to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s NestWatch program and other interested organizations.

On May 7th, two rescued Barn Owl owlets were renest into a nest box with one owlet. Since then one owlet has fledged leaving behind the two owlets in the photo.

The owlet on the left is a little terror as it always attacks my camera. To get video of the owlets I first dropped some thawed out mice in the box to distract them, and then inserted the camera. Note that eating the mice was more important than attacking the camera.

📸: By Lee Pauser

This observation was part of a nest box trail done in conjunction with the California Bluebird Recovery Program (CBRP), which runs the Cavity Nesters Recovery Program (CNRP). CNRP involves many volunteers across California who establish and monitor nest box trails for cavity-nesting birds. During the breeding season, these boxes are checked weekly for parasitism, predation, number of eggs, nestlings, and number of young fledged. Then at the end of the nesting season, volunteers submit their results to CBRP. We compile these results and submit them to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s NestWatch program and other interested organizations.