FLOYD AND PATRICK COUNTIES: LEARN TO MONITOR AND MANAGE A NESTBOX! I am available to train you….call me and leave message at (703) 919-4302 if interested. I specifically cover Patrick and Floyd Counties, VA, for the Virginia Bluebird Society as County Coordinator.
I am seeking monitored boxes for stats to include to the VBS. These stats go to the North American Bluebird Society, as well. Please let me include your nestboxes. Learn how rewarding bluebirding can be, even ONE nestbox. Include your box (or sponsor one through the VBS!) in my trail stats for Virginia! It’s fun and very rewarding. I love to train!
Proper nestbox selection and installation with predator guards increase success for your bluebirds. If you install a nestbox and then not monitor and maintain that box, you are enticing the birds to nest there and setting them up for possible failure. Bluebirds live in open or semi-open habitats with short vegetation and scattered trees. Parks, suburbs, golf courses, schools, farms, and forest clearings can all provide ideal conditions for bluebirds.
Even if you just want one nestbox in your back yard to enjoy watching from your house, please feel free to contact me for assistance. Proper mounting will make your bluebirds come faster and help them stay safer and come back year after year! One box, or a trail of 5 boxes….you’re helping the bluebirds!
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So, can I suggest you start here with the NABS website for info:
“Getting Started with Bluebirds”
http://www.nabluebirdsociety.org/gettingstarted.htm
Click here to see this YouTube video of bluebird nestlings gaping:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvRJdc5edDQ&NR=1
I absolutely love this artist. This plate graces our guest room which we call, The Blue Room. It was meant to be: he walls are painted bluebird egg color. Once you get a bluebird trail, you'll be hooked on the real birds and all things beautiful that are bluebirds, like this plate with bluebird artwork!
Interested?
GETTING STARTED WITH BLUEBIRDS:
Start With One Box…..then….
A Bluebird Trail is 5 or more boxes!
4 eggs. Maybe 1 or 2 more will be laid.
HERE IS ANOTHER VIDEO FOR BEGINNERS ON BACKYARD BIRDING AND BLUEBIRDS FROM EXPERT VILLAGE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNS_EOCdvF8&feature=related
Below is advice on starting a trail from the North American Bluebird Society’s website: http://www.nabluebirdsociety.org/
More excellent advice from the Sialis.org website, including handouts: http://www.sialis.org/handout.htm
…and the Virginia Bluebird Society on Monitoring Protocol: http://www.virginiabluebirds.org/monitoringnestboxes.html
It is recommended to start with one standard bluebird box with proper mounting on a pole with predator guards. Install one box near to where you live so that you can actively learn to monitor the box. It takes work and commitment. If you like monitoring the box and learning how the birds nest and bring up families, you will enjoy having a trail of your own…always start small and then build your trail. See the websites below for more information about having your own bluebird box or trail.
RETURN TO THIS SITE’s HOME PAGE: http://woolwinehousebluebirdtrail.com/
Hello! I am a teacher from southern Indiana and I’m thinking about doing a bluebird trail project with my second graders. I would like to put up 5-7 nest boxes around my school. We would spend the year studying bluebirds, put boxes up in February, and monitor them through the end of the school year. My husband and I would then monito during the summer until I start a new class of second graders on the project. Do you think this project has merit? Do you have any suggestions on where I can search for grants to help fund it?
By: Kelli on June 10, 2010
at 1:30 AM
What a wonderful project….for sure great merit….helping the bluebirds and teaching the children the love of birds and bluebirds in particular! You might want to check in with the North American Bluebird Society’s (NABS) affiliate club for Indiana, the Indiana Bluebird Society! Here is the IBS’ website: http://indianabluebirdsociety.org. I know the Virginia Bluebird Society, which I am active with, does grants in Virginia. Both VBS and IBS are affiliate clubs of NABS. Best wishes on your school project for the bluebirds!
By: Woolwine House Bluebird Trail on June 13, 2010
at 3:15 PM