Nestbox trails in cemeteries

Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 14:50:46 -0500
From: "Teri I Casper" ticpen"at"maqs.net
To: blUEBIRD-L"at"CORNELL.EDU
Subject: Trail at cemeteries

Does anyone have experience with creating a bluebird trail in cemeteries? I have a list of all our cemeteries and the caretakers in our county. I plan to write a letter requesting permission to place nest boxes in there. I also need to find people to make nest boxes. I have contacted the high school and plan to reach the 4H groups.

I appreciate any advice you can give me. thanks.

This is my first year at bluebirding and I am on a roll...and hooked on bluebirds.

Teri in central Wisconsin

Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 18:16:01 -0400
From: "Brenda Best" jabbest"at"americu.net
To: ticpen"at"maqs.net, blUEBIRD-L"at"cornell.edu
Subject: Re: Trail at cemeteries

Teri,

I would think that cemeteries would be great places for nestboxes. Lots of scattered trees, headstones for perching and hunting, not a lot of activity. They are kept mowed so the grass is short. Go for it!

Brenda
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Brenda Best
Durhamville, NY
jabbest"at"americu.net

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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 18:11:42 -0500
From: "dmccue" dmccue"at"usit.net
To: ticpen"at"maqs.net, blUEBIRD-L"at"cornell.edu
Subject: Re: Trail at cemeteries

Teri - Yes, cemeteries are an excellent place for a Bluebird trail. Have a number in them and they do well. Dan McCue in Camden, TN (west TN)

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Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 01:36:36 EST
From: Tsapling"at"aol.com
Subject: OT

I was thinking of placing some bird houses in a cemetery. It has an assortment of trees but it does have alot of euclyptus. Aside from butterflys, are there any birds that like to hang out in euclyptus trees?

They keep the grass mown.

Tina
No Calif

Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 06:38:51 -0600
From: "dmccue" dmccue"at"usit.net
Subject: Re: [Bluebird] OT

Tina - Can't help on the trees, since we don't have them in TN, but I can tell all that the Blues love cemeteries, I have boxes in many here in TN and they do well. Regards to all and have a happy turkey day! Dan

----- Original Message -----

From: Tsapling"at"aol.com
To: Bluebird"at"fsinc.com
Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 12:36 AM
Subject: [Bluebird] OT

I was thinking of placing some bird houses in a cemetery. It has an
assortment of trees but it does have alot of euclyptus. Aside from
butterflys, are there any birds that like to hang out in euclyptus trees?
They keep the grass mown.

Tina
No Calif

Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 09:45:13 EST
From: SHbirder"at"aol.com
Subject: Re: [Bluebird] OT

Dan...... this is not Tina, but I am glad to hear that the BLuebirds like cementeries for their birdhouses because I am thinking of starting a trail next year or the following year in a cemetary here if I can get permission to do that from the township. Thanks for the information.

Sherry Hunter, Byron Center, MI

Can't help on the trees, since we don't have them in TN, but I can tell all that the Blues love cemeteries, I have boxes in many here in TN and they do well. Regards to all and have a happy turkey day! Dan

Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 07:49:17 -0800
From: "Dusty Bleher" dusty"at"fsinc.com
Subject: Re: [Bluebird] OT

Yes. Although I can't say I've seen Bluebirds "in" them, I've observed quite a few birds hang out in and around them. My BB trail is in a county park (Ed R. Levin), so I have occasion to observe the birds and those trees. I have 4 hanging boxes in Eucalyptus, From which I fledged three crops of Chickadees (Chestnut-backed) and one of WEBLs.

But my most interesting "find" in a Eucalyptus are those neat little Selasophorus hummers that blaze through here in the spring on their way north... For some reason they seem to hang around a particular set of Eucalyptus trees in the park. I can pretty well guarantee seeing them there...

Dusty
San Jose, Ca.

----- Original Message -----

From: Tsapling"at"aol.com
To: Bluebird"at"fsinc.com
Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2000 22:36
Subject: [Bluebird] OT

I was thinking of placing some bird houses in a cemetery. It has an
assortment of trees but it does have alot of euclyptus. Aside from
butterflys, are there any birds that like to hang out in euclyptus trees?
They keep the grass mown.

Tina
No Calif

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