Hey Rich, check out the Burke's nesting data. It is online at:
http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/collections/ornithology/phenology/index.php

Scroll down to the bottom and click on Species Accounts.

Mike Donahue
Seattle

----- Original Message -----
From: Pterodroma at aol.com
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 11:57 AM
Subject: [Tweeters] early? nesting Bewick's Wrens


I have pair of Bewick's Wrens feeding young already here in Bellevue (Eastgate). Is this early or not? I have never observed such activity in the bird box this early in the season. I first noticed them nest building way back on Valentine's Day, February 14 (sweet, eh) immediately after that long stretch of cold and subfreezing days and nights finally tempered, and they were courting and singing like mad a week or two before that. I have never observed any hints of such activity in the bird box this early in the season before. The usual tenants, and not every year, are Black-capped Chickadees and/or Bewick's Wrens. This year the wrens must have just been hell bent to get on with it, and way before I could even get around to tidying up the bird house in preparation. Whatever was in there left over from the last year or two must have been to their liking. Anyway, what's the earliest date for nest building and feeding young in Washington? If such early nesting is not that unusual or in fact normal, ...well, my apologies for sharing my ignorance.

Richard Rowlett
Bellevue (Eastgate), WA





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