The problem is that birds are in profound trouble, both on our suffering planet and in this rapidly changing neighborhood.
And as I watch developers slaughter tree after neighborhood tree, I can offer nest boxes to compensate in some small way for the loss of natural nest sites.
I walked to the jungly back of the yard to check on the nest box they’d already claimed.
The wren nest in the chickadee box came to a bad end, too, as it turns out.
One of the eggs had been pierced — almost certainly by another house wren — and ants had claimed that box, too.
Persons:
aren’t, I’ve