Jan and Tweets,

I maintain a bluebird trail in the area you mention, but my houses
are all in good shape and checked frequently. My trail starts on W.
Ballard Road just before the Swauk Cemetery and continues on Ley Road
and E. Ballard Road. There are other houses here and there all around
this area. I suppose remnants of earlier trails. We have often
repaired some of the older houses. I have no idea who established the
other boxes. Anyway, mine are fine and have bluebirds, swallows,
chipmunks, etc. (mostly bluebirds).

Cheers, Diann

Diann MacRae
Olympic Vulture Study
22622 - 53rd Avenue S.E.
Bothell, WA 98021
tvulture at vei.net


At 04:19 PM 5/19/2006, you wrote:
>I recently drove along the bluebird trail that someone used to
>maintain just outside of Cle Elum. It's north of 970 near where
>Teanaway Rd heads off. Although there were a fair number of both
>mountain and western bb's present, the houses themselves and the
>fence posts they hang on are in pretty bad shape. I wonder if any
>one on Tweeters knows who used to maintain these boxes and what the
>story is. It's a shame to see this very established bluebird
>community fall by the wayside.
>