Hi Steve, chickadees use a smaller nest box with a smaller hole, they have
absolutley no chance with a house sparrow unlike the swallows. (they are
still not likely but better than a chickadee) Swallows such tree and violet
seem to start around May I think it is. Maybe as early as mid April. But
with swallows it all depends on the amount of food and severity of weather.
Last year my female tree swallow may have delayed laying an egg for a couple
of days. The last time I checked she was incubating therefore I couldn't
determine when her other egg came along. Robins seem to be May too. (Please
anyone, correct me if something is off)

Towhees and sparrows (i.e. song etc.) I think are April and so on. Although
I am not sure because the ever slilghtly decrease in backyard songbirds such
as sparrows, juncos etc. happens at a slow pace that I don't notice they are
all nesting until when they are incubating making it a little hard to
determine when they started the nesting cycle. Geee, what a concept. I do,
and maybe if you do, you can put nesting materials in your suet feeders and
that gets a lot of birds to come and take a few things. Let me know on any
other questions.


Blake Iverson
Arlington, WA
coopershwk at hotmail.com
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