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I clean my boxes out after every nesting, as soon as possible. Only exception is if they have already laid more eggs.
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<span class="signature-truncate"><span class="signature-truncate">Hal Michael<br><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Board of Directors, </span><a style="font-size: 12pt;" href="http://ecowb.org/">Ecologists Without Borders</a></span></span>
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<span class="signature-truncate">Olympia WA<br>360-459-4005<br>360-791-7702 (C)<br>ucd880@comcast.net</span>
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On 01/25/2024 9:46 AM PST Trileigh Tucker <tri@seattleu.edu> wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Palatino; color: #4472c4;">Hi Tweets,</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?</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.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Palatino; color: #4472c4;">Good birding to you,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Palatino; color: #4472c4;">Trileigh</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright',serif; color: #1f4e79; mso-ligatures: none;">Trileigh Tucker, PhD</span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright',serif; color: #1f4e79; mso-ligatures: none;">Pelly Valley, West Seattle </span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright',serif; color: #1f4e79; mso-ligatures: none;"><a href="http://naturalpresencearts.com/"><span style="color: #033160;">NaturalPresenceArts.com</span></a></span></em></p>
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