[Bluebird-babble] Thinking Outside the Box

[CBPKevin at aol.com]

...is the title of an article in the Summer 2007 issue of Cornell's 'Living 
Bird' magazine.  The subject of the article is a pair of Mountain Bluebirds in 
Oregon who used an old American Robin's nest in a juniper tree to raise their 
family in 2006.  The article is accompanied by several excellent photographs 
that clearly show the nest site did not resemble a cavity in any way.  Four 
young were raised and fledged.
 
   The only other documented instance of Mountain Bluebirds using an open 
nest that the author could find  was recorded in Wyoming in 1932, when a pair 
used an abandoned robin's nest in a cottonwood tree.
 
   Another fine example of the fact that the birds don't read the books we 
write about their behavior.
 
Kevin Corwin
Centennial



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