<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hello Jill. Thank you for your question, a timely one. As announced in Tweeters earlier this week, Dr. Sarah Sloane will be our WOS Monthly Meeting speaker (via Zoom) on Monday, Feb 3 (go to <a href="https://wos.org/monthly-meetings/" target="_blank" class="">https://wos.org/monthly-meetings/</a> for instructions on participation and to get the Zoom link). Sarah is not a member of the Tweeters listserv, but you may reach her via her academic page: <a href="https://www.umf.maine.edu/about/faculty-staff/sarah-sloane/" class="">https://www.umf.maine.edu/about/faculty-staff/sarah-sloane/</a> Or come join us on Feb 3 and pose the question then.<div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div class="">Here’s also is gentle reminder to the Tweeters family that your email address is NOT viewable in your post as displayed in the Digest (since March 2024). All are <b class="">encouraged</b> <b class="">to place their name and e-mail address at the end of each post. </b> Some may wish to disguise their address by spelling it out, making it a “literal” one (for instance: elaine at uw dot edu) to prevent email address "scraping” by robots. Also, when one's city and or state/province is included, it enhances the post, placing one's observations and questions in a local, regional context. For ideas, please take a look at the signature blocks used by your fellow Tweets. Best wishes, and thank you all for being part of Tweeters.</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Elaine Chuang elc at uw dot edu </div><div class=""><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">Tweeters Administration</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div id="appendonsend" class=""></div><div class="">Seattle</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div dir="ltr" id="divRplyFwdMsg" class=""><b class="">From:</b> on behalf of Shelf
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<<a href="mailto:tweeters@u.washington.edu" class="">tweeters@u.washington.edu</a>><br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b> Friday, January 24, 2025 5:48 PM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b> <a href="mailto:tweeters@u.washington.edu" class="">tweeters@u.washington.edu</a> <<a href="mailto:tweeters@u.washington.edu" class="">tweeters@u.washington.edu</a>><br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b> [Tweeters] Bushtit nesting question<div class=""> </div></div><div class="">Is Sarah Sloane on this list?<br class=""><br class="">I
have some bushtits who keep building their nest in a very low hanging
conifer branch directly above the driveway to an apartment building.
Some years it hangs low enough that, if a truck pulled into the
driveway, it would bang into the nest. I spend the entire season wracked
with anxiety that someone, or something, is going to lop that branch
off while there are nestlings in the nest. This is for sure a nest that
is actually in use most years, not a decoy. I see them busily going in
and out during peak season.<br class=""><br class="">It occurred to me at the end of last
summer that maybe I could just lop that branch off, during the winter,
so they’d have to rebuild higher up this year. Of course, they might go
pick some other numbskull place to nest, but at least this particular
tree (which seems to be a favorite) would not offer such risky options.<br class=""><br class="">I
wanted to make sure, before I got out the pruners, that they don’t use
their nests year round (for warmth) and, even though they sometimes
renovate last year’s nest, they’d be fine having to start from scratch
if last year’s nest (and branch) went away.<br class=""><br class="">Thanks!<br class="">Jill<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div><br class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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