Action at the Pileated site from early this summer as Mr. Woody leaves his perch to attend the three squawking kids. Three hungry mouths had kept both adults very busy as they neared fledging.
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Nest Clean Up
Not only do the adult Wrens work endlessly feeding the young…they are also required to do clean up as the young do tend to poop allot.
This is done by who knows how but everything is put into a fecal sac (doo doo bags) and removed from the nest.
I’m only going to assume that this would be done by any cavity nester.
Besides I would have charged them extra for clean up if they hadn’t done so themselves.
Another Opportunity Presented Itself
An opportunity and another First for Me…visiting a American Kestrel site.
Smallest of the Falcon family these colorful birds are cavity nesters and about ten inches in size. They will use abandoned Pileated and Flicker cavities to nest in. At the time of my visit three young had fledged and the fourth was still in the nest cavity.
With both the Kestrel and Flickers being in the same area…this only meant that little walking was required for photographing both.