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Conservation & Education > Education Projects > Bluebird Nestbox Monitoring
Bluebird Nestbox Monitoring
GOAS maintains two Bluebird Nest Box trails. Volunteers monitor the Lake Springfield and Fellows Lake trails once per week from March through August, when Bluebirds are nesting.
We record the presence of nests, the species that built the nest, number of eggs, number of hatchlings, and if the birds fledged. This conservation project helps increase the number of Bluebirds
and provides a fun educational outdoor experience for members and visitors.
The Fellows Lake trail was started by Leonard Confer in the mid-1980s, and Kay Johnson set
up our second trail at Lake Springfield in the late 1990s. Data is entered into the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology Nest Box database. Approximately 100 Bluebirds fledge from the Fellows Lake
trail each summer. About 90 percent of the birds fledging are Bluebirds, but Tree Swallows are beginning to use the nest boxes as well. The Lake Springfield trail presents a decidedly different
mix of birds fledging from our nest boxes. Species include Eastern Bluebird, Tree Swallow, Carolina Wren, House Wren, Carolina Chickadee, and Tufted Titmouse.
Volunteers may sign up to help monitor
our nest boxes at the February meeting, or by contacting Lake Springfield nest box trail coordinator Carol Snyder
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