Updates from 2026
I had intended to stop monitoring my ~150 nest boxes because it is a lot of work on my own. However, Amanda decided to take over, so we have some data. We limited our efforts to monitoring the nests without banding the nestlings. We also limited our trapping effort to bluebirds that were banded as chicks in previous years, but we did not try to capture and band new individuals that we saw unbanded. Even then, Amanda was not able to always monitor as planned and I was away for
