I'm hoping someone out there in Tweeter-land can help me find out whether pigeon guillemots will use man-made nest boxes.

At Dewatto there is a nest colony of pigeon guillemots. This past December two of five nest holes were destroyed in the storm. They had started digging four new holes in the past two weeks. This past week someone has put up plastic sheeting (probably to stabilize the top of the slope, better late than never I guess) which covered two of the new holes. Over two existing holes they have mounted two large next boxes (wood duck size).

Will the guillemots use the wooden boxes to access the existing, covered holes? I would think that due to their flight and landing methods that the wooden boxes wouldn't be conducive to easy landing or takeoff. Plus the depth of the box would make it extremely difficult to get into the existing hole.

What state or federal regulations pertain to guillemot nest sites or molesting said sites? I'm not certain who mounted the boxes as there was no one home at the house adjacent to the nest site.

Mary Hrudkaj
Belfair/Tahuya
hrudkajm at hotmail.com
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