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    Should I remove this nest or not? (Tree swallow nest box) + sparrow problems

    I've got a nest box in my backyard and each spring tree swallows will use it to nest and hatch eggs. Here's a picture of the nest box (with two mating tree swallows on top) in May 2010. 2 years ago I put a camera in the nest box to watch them and it went great and I got to see the nest being...
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    Tree Swallow pair still not nesting/laying inside nestbox after 3 wks?

    For the second year now I'm watching and recording the tree swallow activity inside one of the bird houses in my back yard with a birdhouse camera hooked up to my laptop. However, while the tree swallows have been making appearances at the bird house every now and then for the past 3 weeks...
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    Does anyone here use a 2-way mirror to view birds up close on window feeders?

    I came across this product on Amazon and was curious to know if it actually works: www.amazon.com/2-Way-Window-Mirror-20X12/dp/B001O9FR72 Does anyone here have any experience with this or similar things? I have a window feeder on my bedroom window which attracts plenty of birds but the second...
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    What is (was) this? Central Maine (Warning: graphic photos)

    Not too long ago I was going for a walk along a path in the field next to my house and came across the corpse of a large brown bird. It was missing its head, one of the legs was separated from its body and laying a few feet away, and it was more or less hollowed out of its insides. It was...
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    Tree swallow nestbox camera: One egg missing, another cracked; what happened?

    Every year tree swallows nest in the nesting box in my backyard here in northern Maine and this year I decided to put a camera inside to watch them. The first activity came a few weeks ago when they began filling it with hay and feathers and just 2 or 3 days ago an egg appeared, then two eggs...
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