I have been videotaping birds (bluebirds, swallows, cardinals, wrens) in my backyard for over 5-years now and have always witnessed the parents visit their nest often when close to fledging, and have never seen them withhold food from their chicks for a full day. I am zoomed close enough to where the nest almost fills my computer screen. Thank you for your comments - the speed with which I watch the video is fast enough to get through the all the hours of footage, but slow enough not to miss any action and still be able to see a change in activity.
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Instructions on how to make it are included. This is like the type of Guard for bird houses that Rosanna is speaking about. If you google "metal predator guards for nest boxes", you should be able to find something similar to see what it looks like. If I was able to include a photo in this post I would. (yes, wrens are culprits too)īut it prevents woodpeckers reaching in and gives the bluebird a fighting chance to fight off smaller birds that try to enter. However, it won't keep sparrows or wrens from going inside to remove eggs. This year, we had a successful clutch of 3-bluebird chicks fledge this past Friday, June 17thīecause this year, we used a home-made rectangular shaped predator guard fashioned with wire mesh and screwed it vertically to the outside of the box entrance.
It reached in and stole two of the chicks - the bluebirds probably wouldn't have tried to tackle a bird that large. The following year, I put up a camcorder with 8-hour tape to capture what was doing this, and yes, it was a red-bellied woodpecker.
Maggie, you are describing same issues I used to have a few years back.
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