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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Palatino;color:#4472C4">Hi Tweets,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Palatino;color:#4472C4">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?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Palatino;color:#4472C4">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Palatino;color:#4472C4">Good birding to you,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Lucida Bright",serif;color:#1F4E79;mso-ligatures:none">Trileigh Tucker, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Lucida Bright",serif;color:#1F4E79;mso-ligatures:none">Pelly Valley, West Seattle <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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