Bird Watching: Search for a new Papa, 0 by 2dCousinDave

2dCousinDave wrote:
I understand Red and you are right, but HOSP control is chapter one in the Bluebird Hosts Handbook. HOSPs seem to be everywhere people live. However, I live in a new development and I didn't see a HOSP in this neighborhood until several years after I had been hosting bluebirds. This year, for the first time, I considered taking my nestboxes down because of the growing HOSP population. Despite my best efforts the day will come, I am afraid. Better not to host them at all than to set them up for certain death.

Let me add that I also cringe when I see nestboxes mounted on trees or fences and without baffles. I want to go up to those people and tell them how to do it properly and sometimes I do. I usually come away amazed at how little people know (or care) about preditors, or HOSPs. Too often these badly placed boxes are also traps for the poor birds who nest there.

Certainly, there is a lot more to hosting bluebirds than simply putting up a nestbox in your backyard.

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