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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