General Discussion : Grass in nesting box

You can see the grass that they must have brought into the box. Below the grass is about an inch of saw dust/chips.

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Sarah Schulwitz's picture

Interesting! This is the first time we've seen that! Thank you so much for sharing! Be sure to enter your data so we can keep this on record. You can put in the notes section all of the details you included in these posts. Thanks so much!

Julian's picture

Did you see kestrels taking the material into the box? If not, it may have been put there by a different species (e.g., European Starling) before the kestrels moved in.

packullr's picture

That is certainly a possibility. We are only at the property on weekends so I did not see the Kestrel's bring the material into the box.

Sarah Schulwitz's picture

Ah - I also suspect then that your grass enthusiast was not a kestrel as this is not known behavior of kestrels. Thanks for clarifying!

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