While cleaning out some of our birdhouses today, I found dead nestlings,
all pretty well feathered out, in three of the four boxes that had nests
from last year. The one without dead nestlings was a wren nest. The other
three were bluebirds or tree swallows. Two had one dead chick, the other
had two dead chicks. These are the first dead birds that I remember finding
in nest boxes over about 50 years of spring birdhouse cleaning. So, of
course, I’m wondering whether anyone else has noticed this.

Worried in Corinth,

vb


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