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--f4f5e80a5e88ee36aa0569c1aa78 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Thanks to all for your comments and encouragement, I have enjoyed watching the swallows each spring and summer. I live just across the street from the sewer ponds so I am able to visit them often. Even a single box will often host a swallow pair if it is in the open, near (even 1/2 km) some body of water, faces east or south, has a 7/8" X 1 1/2 " oval hole, without a landing peg on the front, and is cleaned each year. I would encourage everyone to place one as soon as possible, the Tree Swallows are close (I saw one at Miner's Marsh yesterday). Cheers, George On 8 April 2018 at 15:58, George Forsyth <ge4syth@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > --f4f5e80a5e88ee36aa0569c1aa78 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr"><div><div><div>Thanks to all for your comments and encoura= gement, I have enjoyed watching the swallows each spring and summer. I live= just across the street from the sewer ponds so I am able to visit them oft= en.<br><br></div>Even a single box will often host a swallow pair if it is = in the open, near (even 1/2 km) some body of water, faces east or south, ha= s a 7/8" X 1 1/2 " oval hole, without a landing peg on the front,= and is cleaned each year.<br><br></div>I would encourage everyone to place= one as soon as possible, the Tree Swallows are close (I saw one at Miner&#= 39;s Marsh yesterday).<br><br></div>Cheers, George<br></div><div class=3D"g= mail_extra"><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On 8 April 2018 at 15:58, George= Forsyth <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"mailto:ge4syth@gmail.com" target= =3D"_blank">ge4syth@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D= "gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding= -left:1ex"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div><div><div>Hi All,<br><br></div>I cleaned o= ut the swallow boxes that are located at the sewer ponds in Port Williams t= oday. 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 ja= cket wasps that had over wintered,=C2=A0 three boxes were unused. <br><br>I= f 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 p= opulation. There have been boxes here for about thirty years (assuming simi= lar 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 thirty years ago. There is no longer a Scout Troop here but I have c= ontinued to maintain and replace the boxes as needed, I do clean them each = spring.<br><br></div>Cheers, George Forsyth<br></div> </blockquote></div><br></div> --f4f5e80a5e88ee36aa0569c1aa78--
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