Bird House Cam - About the box

We built and installed this Bluebird box with an infrared camera in late March of 2006, at a location where Eastern Bluebirds had successfully nested in previous years. A pair of Bluebirds began building a nest, but they abandoned it and a pair of Tree Swallows took over the nest. (One of the many challenges facing Bluebirds is competition from other species for nesting sites. This is true for both natural and artificial sites.) The Tree Swallows successfully raised four babies. In late April of 2007, we noticed a pair of Bluebirds around the nest box. They built a nest and laid five eggs, which hatched on May 22. Once the babies had grown up and left the nest, we cleaned out the nest box. In late June, the Bluebirds began building another nest and laying a second brood of eggs. In the spring of 2009, Tree Swallows claimed the box again. In April of 2010, a Chickadee chose our high-tech nest box as "home sweet home."

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