Update on Nesting Bluebirds
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- June
- 20
I wrote an article for the paper last week about Sandy Morrissey and her efforts over the last 10 years to bring bluebirds back to lower Westchester. Here’s a link to the article.
And here’s a link to an earlier blog post, right after I was out in the field with Sandy and her bluebirds.
Here’s an update from Sandy (with her photos):
“Discovered our 15th nesting pair of bluebirds today. We have a pair nesting in the new houses put up at Mt. Calvary cemetery. These houses were made by the Greenburgh/Elmsford Girl Scouts during their Spirit Day.
We have two sets of babies at Kensico Cemetery – the babies in box #5 are
definitely close to fledging.
Wouldn’t you like to live in this house at Manhattanville College. Of all
the boxes there, this is the last one I would have thought the bb would
choose. Last year this box had nothing but house sparrows.
And in the middle of the campus of Westchester Community College – a
bluebird family is happy as can be. There are 5 eggs in the nestbox and
parents around all the time. I used to work in Hartford Hall – the building
in the background – on the top floor and the window looked out onto this
scene.
Here’s where are bluebirds are nesting:
Saxon Woods Golf Course – 4 nesting pairs
Scarsdale Golf Course – 2 nesting pairs
Sunningdale Golf Course – 3 nesting pairs
Kensico Cemetery – 2 nesting pairs
Mt. Calvary Cemetery – 1 nesting pair
Westchester Community College – 1 nesting pair
Manhattanville College – 1 nesting pair
Burke Rehab. Hospital – 1 nesting pair


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Bill Cary grew up in Louisville, Ky. His gardening was limited to growing parsley and impatiens on the windowsill of Manhattan walkups until the mid-1990s when he bought a rundown old chicken farm on 8 acres in the Hudson Valley. Now he spends his weekends chasing deer, hacking away at invasive shrubs and vines and wondering why he doesn`t have more meadow and less lawn.
