First report of the season for our nestboxes for Wood Duck and Hooded Merganser:
As I (successfully, for once) predicted, our birds have not begun laying in our 16 boxes, due to the snow and cold in February. We added fresh chips to all and trimmed back vegetation around some of the boxes along Barnyard Run.
We have plenty of plastic bags in the shed for carrying chips; we have almost used up our supply of chips. I’ll make a note for next winter to request more chips.
I will bring supplies to touch up the numbers on a couple of the boxes.
L. spotted a handsome Dark Fishing Spider (Dolomedes tenebrosus) in the shed.
See you next Sunday, same time and place. Remember that we switch over to Daylight Saving Time at 2 AM that morning….
Thank you!