Christopher Newport University
  Department of Biology, Chemistry and Environmental Science      
 
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Creating a Bluebird Trail

Mariners' Museum Park, Newport News, Virginia
 
 
Jonathan Warren

Jonathan Warren, Master of Science in Environmental Science student, along with Biology 425-Ornithology Labs, installs a Bluebird Trail in the Mariners' Museum Park, Newport News, Virginia.  Jonathan's thesis work will include bluebird monitoring in the park.

 

Bluebird houses were donated by

Mr. Jim Hill, Wild Wings Nature Store,

27 Hidenwood Shopping Centre,

Newport News, VA 23606.
Jim Hill
Jonathan Warren
  
Mr. Jim Hill
   
The Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Virginia, has approved the installation of twelve bird houses to be installed and maintained by Jonathan Warren (Dr. Rick Sherwin, advisor) creating a Bluebird Trail as part of the five-mile Noland Trail which follows the shoreline of Lake Maury.  It is also registered as an official Bluebird Trail with the Virginia Bluebird Society.   Posts for the birdhouses were donated by the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries.
 
 

Bluebird Trail 2006

Season 1 Data Summary

 

Trail Info

Total Nest Boxes at End of Season = 11

Total Nest Boxes at Beginning of Season = 12

Bluebird Data

Total Young Fledged = 25

Total Eggs = 28

Total Number of Completed Nests with Eggs = 6

Average Clutch Size = 4.67 (5 nests had 5 eggs & 1 nest had 3 eggs)

Percentage of eggs not hatching = 10.71 %

Chickadee Data

Total Young Fledged = 7

Total Eggs = 7

Total Number of Completed Nests with Eggs = 1

Average Clutch Size = 7

Percentage of eggs not hatching = 0 %

 
 Bluebird Trail in Progress . . .
 
   

January 16 & 20, 2006 -

 Installation > of twelve bluebird houses
   
March 17, 2006 -
bluebird nest
 A completed bluebird nest in the first season
April 1, 2006 -
Four bluebird eggs . . . and a new chickadee nest
April 10, 2006 -
bluebird eggs

Five bluebird eggs

Nine nests in twelve houses in the first year:

  • Four bluebird nests
  • One bluebird nest with eggs
  • Five chickadee nest
April 17, 2006 -
Chickadee Eggs

Chickadee eggs

Five bluebird nests (bluebirds reclaim one chickadee nest); 1 with eggs

Four chickadee nests (1 with eggs)

April 24, 2006 -
baby bluebirds

Bluebird eggs hatch

1 tuffed titmouse nest

3 chickadee nests (1 with 7 eggs)

5 bluebird nests:

  • 1 with 5 young
  • 3 with eggs
May 1 , 2006 -
bluebird hatchlings
 Bluebird hatchlings
Chickadee hatchlings
 Chickadee hatchlings
Summer 2006 -
Bluebird Trail Data Gathering
 Data Gathering >