I would add that some people recommend that you move it a little bit at a
time to watch the parents get the idea. If you don't have that option, if
the boat has already moved, try something intermediate if time before dark
allows. Then make the move to the final place before it gets dark.

We have seen some pretty determined mothers, and if the young are cheaping
and letting them know where they are, they should get fed.
>I just returned home from biking trip & learned that, at about 5:30
>today, my husband will be getting his boat ready for a Saturday
>morning fishing trip. Sadly, a couple of Bewick's wrens have
>chosen the folded canvas top as their nest site and are in the process of
>raising their young. My son tried making a cardboard shelter that
>approximates the shape/size of the canvas, but neither he nor I have the
>heart to remove the nest. (Canvas stays on the boat). The male & female
>wrens are frantic, needless to say. Please, is there a Tweeter online
>with nest-moving tips? Will parents abandon next even with young present?
>Help!
>
>Pat Foster
>fosterp at edmonds.wednet.edu
>
>
>

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Name: Clarice Clark
jbroadus at seanet.com
901-16th. St S.W.
Puyallup, Wa. 98371
206-845-3156
07/05/96
19:11:17