I clean my boxes out after every nesting, as soon as possible. Only exception is if they have already laid more eggs.

Hal Michael
Board of Directors, Ecologists Without Borders http://ecowb.org/
Olympia WA
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> On 01/25/2024 9:46 AM PST Trileigh Tucker <tri at seattleu.edu> wrote:

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> A few days ago I was startled to see two Bewick's Wrens inspecting their last-year's nest box-;I thought they'd start that investigation much later. The box still contains last year's nest. Should I clean it out, or let them remodel?

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> My guess is that it's better to clean it out and replace the existing nest with fresh wood shavings (their substrate last year, which worked well). But I thought I'd check in just in case.

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> Good birding to you,

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