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Spring 2013 Selected Articles
Over 51,000 songbirds were fledged
in the 2012 Season: Annual Report II
by Kent Hall
Life cycle of the Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis)
by Patrick Ready
Cedar Nest Boxes Protect Bluebirds During Low and
High Temperatures - But Not From Predators
by Leif Marking, Brice Prairie Conservation Association
Form 22, Spring 2013
by BRAW
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Recent Articles
What a comeback! After a bad 2011 season, we bounced back with a record bluebird production in 2012: Annual Report I
By Kent D. Hall, Ph.D., Coordinator of Data Collection & Analysis
Production of Eastern Bluebirds in Monitored Houses Annual Report - 2012 Brice Prairie Conservation Association
By Leif L. Marking, Project Manager
Door County BRAW Convention a big success!
By Patricia Heiden, BRAW Secretary, Photos by Patrick Ready, Editor
A Report of the 2012 Bluebird Trails in Lafayette County
By Carol McDaniel
Cat Resistant Nest Box
By Fred Craig
Tough Times for Bluebirds in 2012
By Leif Marking
Beat The Heat in Bluebird Boxes During Heat Cycles
By Leif Marking
Black Flies May Have Met Their Match
By Kent Hall
Rescue by Motorcycle!
By Patrick Ready
Those %$#@! House Sparrows!!
By Patrick Ready
Over 40,000 songbirds were fledged in the 2011 season: Annual Report II
by Kent Hall
Nestling Bluebirds Are Vulnerable to Kestrel Predation
By Leif Marking
Cedar Nest Boxes Protect Bluebirds During High and Low Temperatures
By Leif Marking , Brice Prairie Conservation Association and Cindy Koperski, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Using feathers to trick and trap House Sparrows
By Keith Kridler
Trails of Excellence and Trails of Honor for BRAW Monitors: 2011
by Kent Hall
The Weather Reigned Supreme this Season and Our Bluebird Numbers Dropped: Annual Report I
by Kent D. Hall, Ph.D., Coordinator of Data Collection & Analysis
Production of Eastern Bluebirds in Monitored Houses Annual Report - 2011 Brice Prairie Conservation Association
by Leif L. Marking, Project Manager
A New Way to Create New Trails
by Bob Tamm
Ernie and Burt!
by Signe & Ken Onsrud
Preliminary Thoughts About the 2011 Season
By Kent Hall
The Case of the Migrating Nest Box
By Ellen Lafouge
Bluebirds at Old World Wisconsin
By Bunny Schoen
Production of Eastern Bluebirds in Monitored Houses
Annual Report - 2010, Brice Prairie Conservation Association
By Leif L. Marking, Project Manager
Over 47,000 songbirds were fledged in the 2010
season: Annual Report II
by Kent Hall
Effects of Occupancy and Venting on Temperatures
Inside Bluebird Nestboxes
By Leif Marking & Fred Craig, Brice Prairie Conservation Association and Cindy Koperski, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Juvenile Bluebird Siblings Assist in Parenting and Fledging
by Leif Marking
Bluebird Trail and Observations on County Line Lake
By Rick Pertile
Predator Guard Using Multi-Flora Rose Stems
Joan Liechty
Preventing Box Slipping
Charlie Bergsten
BRAW County Coordinators List Renewed
By Joe Schultz
Annual Report: we did it! 30,000 Bluebirds were fledged...
by Kent Hall
Bluebird Nest Box Design and Construction are Important to Alleviate Cold and Heat
by Leif Marking
A Great Day for Trapping English Sparrows
by Leif Marking
Late Nesting Black-capped Chickadee
by Roy Lukes
Birds Are Us!
By Faye Miller, 4th grade teacher, Roosevelt Idea Center, Stevens Point, Wisconsin
Last year for Operation Top State (OTS)
By Kent Hall
Ghost Eggs of Mill Center Cemetery
By Jo DeVetter
The Neighborhood House – A New Door Opened
by Bob Tamm
Hands on Monitoring Saves a Few Bluebird Chicks
By Claire Romanak
From Bauldry to BRAW: Trails Revamped = Success!
by Gene Birr & Steve Mayer
Deterring Black Flies
by Bet Zimmerman
Black Fly Not a Major Concern in Wisconsin
By Kent Hall
Save a Chickadee or 6 or 8
By Pat Ready
Production of Eastern Bluebirds in Monitored Houses
Annual Report - 2009, Brice Prairie Conservation Association
By Leif L. Marking
Nest Box Quick Fix
By Pat Ready
Why Do We Collect Data on Bluebird Nesting Success?
by Dr. Peter Dunn
Monitors: "Tape Your Boxes"
by Dr. Kent Hall
Door County Bluebirds
By Charlotte Lukes, Photos by Roy Lukes
Woodpecker Habitat Project
Dale Moody, Iowa County Coordinator
English Sparrows Dominate Bluebird Boxes Despite Repelling Devices
By Leif Marking
Record Year! 28,814 Bluebirds Fledged in 2009
by Peter Dunn and Kent D. Hall
A Small Trail Success Story
By Ellen Lafouge
Hoy Audubon Purple Martin Project
By Helen Pugh
BRAW Needs Monitors
By Kent Hall
A Call to Southeast Wisconsin Bluebirders
By Bob Tamm
Are Tree Swallows Predators of Bluebirds?
By Leif Marking
Have Chicks, Need Parents
By Kent Hall
Paired Nest Boxes vs. Widely Spaced Single Nest Box Experiment
By Mary Roen, with BRAW’s Response by Kent Hall
A March Bluebird Nest
By Mary Strasser
Bluebirds – Through the Eye of an Eagle Scout
By Dylan Huber
Southeast Wisconsin Bluebirders Gather in Greenfield
By Bob Tamm
Plexiglass Sparrow Reducer Fails
By Gary Gaard
Cowbirds and Unsuspecting Cavity Nesters
By Patrick Ready
Production of Eastern Bluebirds in Monitored Houses, Annual Report 2008
By Leif L. Marking
An Argument for Front-Opening Boxes
By Bob Tamm
Portable Mealworm Feeders
By Mary Roen
Effectiveness of the PVC Nest Box for Producing Bluebirds
by Kent D. Hall
Non-vented Boxes and Black Flies: new Findings
By Kent Hall
Bluebirds Challenge Winter in Wisconsin
By Leif Marking
Attracting Purple Martins
By the Purple Martin Conservation Association
The Big Blue Egg
By Leif Marking
Over 21,000 bluebirds fledged in 2008
by Peter Dunn and Kent D. Hall, Data Collection & Analysis Committee
Do You Live Near a Golf Course?
By Kent Hall
Bluebird Rescue!
By Marianne Jensen
A Simple but Effective Nestbox Mounting System
By Bob Tamm
The Perfect Storm
by Kent Hall
A Word of Caution When Feeding Bluebirds
By Pat Ready, Editor
Mean Bluebirds
By Gary Gaard
Cooperative Nest of 8 Eastern Bluebirds
By Mary Roen,
View slideshow or photos of Mary Roen's cooperative nesting story
On Ebert’s Golden Pond
By Leif Marking
House Sparrow Control… Circa 1916 - and Other Birding Tidbits!
By Bob Tam
Instant Chickadees . . . just add birch tree
By Bob Tamm
Using Sparrow Spookers
By Ellen Lafouge
Monitoring Bluebird Nest Boxes
By Mary Roen
Remembering Joe O’Halloran
By Carol J. McDaniel
How to Create Your Bluebird Habitat
By Mariette Nowak
The Effects of Shade and Ventilation Combinations to Alleviate Temperature Problems in Bluebird Houses, (PDF)
By Leif Marking and Fred Craig, Brice Prairie Conservation Association and Cindy Koperski, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Bluebirds Adapt to Wisconsin Winter
By Mary Strasser
We Have Done Well, But Are There Ways to Improve?
By Kent D. Hall
Bluebird Chick Development - First 14 Days
By Jack Bartholmai and Pat Ready
Another record year: 28,244 bluebirds fledged
By Peter Dunn and Kent D. Hall, Data Collection & Analysis Committee
Was the first flight of your bluebird chicks their last flight?
By Kent Hall
Fledging Eastern Bluebirds when the habitat has high House Sparrow populations
By Gary Gaard
Bluebirds Go to School, Foreign Students Will Take Lesson Home
By Pat Ready, Editor
The Bluebird: How You Can Help Its Fight For Survival, Dr. Zeleny's Book Revisited
By Kenny Kleinpeter
April Cold Snap and Snow Greet Returning Birds
By Pat Ready, Editor
Research Reports
Record Year! 28,814 Bluebirds Fledged in 2009
by Peter Dunn and Kent D. Hall
Over 21,000 bluebirds fledged in 2008
by Peter Dunn and Kent D. Hall, Data Collection & Analysis Committee
Another Record Year [2007]: 28,244 Bluebirds Fledged
by Peter Dunn and Kent D. Hall, Data Collection & Analysis Committee
Over 21,000 Bluebird Fledgings - an All-Time Record for BRAW
No Tree Swallows, all Bluebirds
The Effects of Shade and Ventilation Combinations to Alleviate Temperature Problems in Bluebird Houses, (PDF)
By Leif Marking and Fred Craig, Brice Prairie Conservation Association and Cindy Koperski, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Interspecies nest box competition—the House Sparrow” in Winter, 2006
Other Articles
Photographing birds — naturally by Pat Ready
Purple Martin Houses Need to be Monitored by Pat Ready
Orphaned Bluebirds Rescued by Caregiver by Leif Marking
“The Torch is passed”—Fall, 2006
“We know the WAY, but do we have the WILL”—Winter, 2006
“ We have to talk the talk and then walk the walk”—Winter, 2006
Tree Swallows and House Sparrows and –gypsy moths, oh my
They’re Keeping it in the Family (human interest)
Look Out Below!
No Shoes, No Blues
Production of Eastern Bluebird in Monitored Houses
by Leif L. Marking, Project Manager, Brice Prairie Conservation Association
Bluebirds eat snakes?
Bluebird Menu has Variety
by Patrick Ready, Editor, photos by Jack Bartholmai
What is "Digiscoping?"
by Pat Ready
Fall is the time for mounting boxes
Avoiding "Cat"tastrophies
Feeding Bluebirds…Just for Fun
by Pat Ready
Another Successful Predator of E. Bluebirds
Green Lake Lad Now Eagle Scout and also an Assistant Scoutmaster from Winter 2003
Eastern Bluebirds at University Ridge Golf Course - 1997 and 2003
by Gary Gaard, BRAW Board of Directors from Winter 2003
All Songbirds Are Protected by Don Bragg from Winter 2003
SAW-WHET OWL NESTING By Verlyn Olson from Fall 2003
A Route to Successful Bluebird Production
By Leif L. Marking, Nest Box Committee Chair
Olaf Hendrickson: Nearly 88 Years of Bluebirding by Teri Casper
Corporate Bluebirds
Bluebirds and Silver Bands Over Black Earth