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 -- Chris Rimmer Vermont Center for Ecostudies P.O. Box 420 Norwich, VT 05055 802-649-1431 ext. 1 http://www.vtecostudies.org **************************************************************** To post messages, send e-mail to: [log in to unmask] Set your e-mail application to PLAIN TEXT ONLY to post messages. To contact the list owner: [log in to unmask] ---------------------------------------------------------------- Web based archives and subscription management are available at: http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/Archives/uv-birders.html ****************************************************************