This year's second brood of E. Bluebirds fledged from a Hillside 
Cemetery next box in Norwich yesterday or today.  Four chicks were still 
present on Monday at 9:00 am, and today at 4:30 pm the nest contained 
only a single unhatched egg.  The pair, which fledged its first brood of 
5 from the same box on May 23 or 24, had one egg in the second nest on 
June 8 and 5 eggs on the 13th.  Four chicks hatched on the 25 or 26th.  
I didn't see the family nearby today, but they can't be far.

The second nest box in Hillside now has a House Wren nest with 6 eggs.  
A pair of Tree Swallows, which nested without incident in the box for 
the past several years, built a nest and had 1 egg on May 24, but 
abandoned when a male House Wren moved in and started building over 
their nest.  It took some time for a female wren to show up, but she 
laid her first egg on July 6.  The swallows meanwhile moved to a 
neighbor's nest box on Simpson Rd and now have 4 young that should 
fledge any day.

The woods, thickets and open spaces will very soon be teeming with 
fledglings!

Chris

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Chris Rimmer
Vermont Center for Ecostudies
P.O. Box 420
Norwich, VT 05055
802-649-1431 ext. 1
http://www.vtecostudies.org

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