Who is this mystery bird?? It is a brown bird with light brown eggs. I personally think it is a House Wren. There is some evidence that it is a House Wren. The feathers in the nest are brown with black bandings. However, most House Wren's nest are extremely messy like a reeking rats nest!!! The materials used to make the nest would be all over the place. In this bird box, the nest could be made by a bluebird, since they are neat,but have been stolen by a House Wren. In the bird's box, the eggs are the size of a dime as shone on the picture and they are speckled brown eggs. What do YOU think this hooting mystery bird is?? -AY
Today we saw some new nests as well as some new eggs. In Box One we found four (yes four) bluebird eggs!! So exciting!! The eggs were a bit small, not as big as a chicken egg but we know they were blue bird eggs because they were light blue and smaller than robin eggs. Do you remember the unknown nest Box 4? Well, we decided to clear that one out because nothing got built since last week so we assumed that there were no birds living there. In Box Five we found the an unknown nest (again.) Funny thing was that was the same nest as the other unknown nest. That's why we are needing an ornithologist to help us identify this unknown nest. Please please please comment if you know what kind of nest that is (that goes for teachers too!) RY
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The Citizen ScientistsWe are a group of 5th grade students that are studying birds. It will begin with the Great Backyard Bird Count and end with monitoring the school's bluebird boxes. All of our data will go to the Cornell Ornithology Lab. http://www.birds.cornell.edu/ Archives
June 2010
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