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June 2000 Webnotes
Watch for: Pledge Drive Interruptions of Stokes Birds at Home.
Stokes Birds At Home will resume when your Public TV station's pledge drive is over. For the usual show schedule, click here. To check local schedules during pledge, click here.
June: Your Nesting Birds
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June is the best time to do a survey of nesting birds on your property, for it is the month when almost all birds are raising young. Finding nests on your property is not only fun, it is also important to determining the quality of your bird habitat. How many species are nesting on or near your property? Has the number increased or decreased? How are the changes you are making to your property effecting nesting birds? All of these questions can be answered only by going out and finding nests. Here are eight tips to finding bird nests in June.
Nest Etiquette
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Click here for some tips for finding and watching nests in a way that will not disturb the birds. These suggestions are for open cup nests built in trees or shrubs. Nests built in birdhouses can be monitored more closely. Remember: it is a myth that parent birds will abandon a nest because they smell your presence near it; they cannot smell that well.
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