Wood Duck nesting boxes at Little Gem

Conservancy Volunteers raised two nesting boxes at the inlet to Silver Lake on the Conservancy owned ‘Little Gem’ property. The two cedar boxes are mounted on galvanized poles that can be easily taken down to inspect and clean the boxes annually. There is a galvanized predator guard metal cone mounted on the pole below the nesting box to block predators from climbing to the box.
Thanks to Anthony Palombaro, Keith Oberg, Scott Heckman and James Matthews for their efforts in hauling the heavy platforms to shore for the winter season. The plan is to deploy the floating platforms again next Spring.
The platforms were used by a wide variety of wildlife and the addition of motion activated cameras this summer added to the data collected and to the interest by the local Conservancy members.
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