Combine your birding with checking the nesting success of bluebirds and other nest box users this season. Visits to the same area offer the opportunity to follow changes of wild flowers, other birds, and often other wildlife through the season. Several volunteer monitors are unable to return for the 2012 season, creating openings for new volunteers. Currently, there are openings at Betasso, Bald Mountain, and Eldorado.

Monitoring requires off-trail hiking on moderate routes to check nest boxes approximately weekly from early May to late July or early August. An important part of the job is recording the status of all nests with each visit. The data needs to be entered weekly in a spreadsheet that will be transferred to a database at Cornell at the end of the season

To volunteer, or for more information, contact Marti Oetzel, 303-543-3712 or marti@birdhike.com. Also visit our Bluebird Nestbox Monitoring Program page to learn about past seasons

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