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--f4f5e8090398a61c5d05695ade31 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Hi All, I cleaned out the swallow boxes that are located at the sewer ponds in Port Williams today. There are 14 boxes around the ponds, 8 were used (one had a clutch of five eggs unhatched), 3 boxes had half constructed nests and had yellow jacket wasps that had over wintered, three boxes were unused. If the seven boxes that had nests and didn't have eggs in them and were assumed to be successful with an average of four fledglings, it is possible that this community of Tree Swallows contributed 28 Tree Swallows to the population. There have been boxes here for about thirty years (assuming similar success) this could have been 840 fledglings! The original nest boxes were constructed and installed by Boy Scouts under my direction about thirty years ago. There is no longer a Scout Troop here but I have continued to maintain and replace the boxes as needed, I do clean them each spring. Cheers, George Forsyth --f4f5e8090398a61c5d05695ade31 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr"><div><div><div>Hi All,<br><br></div>I cleaned out the swal= low boxes that are located at the sewer ponds in Port Williams today. There= are 14 boxes around the ponds, 8 were used (one had a clutch of five eggs = unhatched), 3 boxes had half constructed nests and had yellow jacket wasps = that had over wintered,=C2=A0 three boxes were unused. <br><br>If the seven= boxes that had nests and didn't have eggs in them and were assumed to = be successful with an average of four fledglings, it is possible that this = community of Tree Swallows contributed 28 Tree Swallows to the population. = There have been boxes here for about thirty years (assuming similar success= ) this could have been 840 fledglings!<br><br></div>The original nest boxes= were constructed and installed by Boy Scouts under my direction about thir= ty years ago. There is no longer a Scout Troop here but I have continued to= maintain and replace the boxes as needed, I do clean them each spring.<br>= <br></div>Cheers, George Forsyth<br></div> --f4f5e8090398a61c5d05695ade31--
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