The boxes were paired about 10 feet apart,they each began building nest and the both began laying eggs ,Then All of the sudden,The TRES decided they wanted the other box.They moved in and began laying more eggs with the Wren eggs,even carefully adding nesting material under the the Wren eggs.I noticed the Wren was going in the other box where the TRES used to be.I thought for sure they would throw out the TRES eggs and rebuild another nest,But they didn't,she began incubating the TRES eggs.The start of incubation was a week apart,so I couldn't just switch everything.I was surprised some of the eggs hatched.I did contact a rehaber as soon as I noticed what was going on.Since TRES feed in the air,there was no way each Species would have survived once fledging.Here is the surviving TRES from the video,He/She was pulled from the nest just before it was due to fledge.It was released a few weeks later by the rehaber.

I've read about how vicious sparrows can be. I hate sparrows. They can empty out my bird feeder in a couple of hours. Throwing most of it to the ground. The neighbors have a lot of opening on their houses that the sparrows are nesting in. When the holes get bigger the starling then get in and drop crap all over my car. A sparrow worked to make the opening bigger this winter with out success. The chickadees must keep a low profile early on. That evening, just before sunset, one of the babies was hangin on the outside of the hole and then flew down to the ground and hide in the bee balm. The next morning it was on the grapevine. The next evening another one left around the same time. Must be a plan to leave then. They are now in some evergreen trees. I've heard the parents warning them when there are bluejays around. Today I saw one of the adult chickadee chasing a sparrow.

For those interested in the tomato garden he starts that part of the tour right at the 4 minute mark of the first link. The string trellis, tomato pruning set up is almost identical to mine, so his methods interested me. He recommends snipping off suckers until "there's a good bloom". As far as I understand indeterminate tomato growth, each vine is going to set one flower cluster every third leaf branch. So there won't be a "good bloom" (imo) until he lets several suckers flower at once. There's a little contradiction there. He says prune until it happens; I'm pretty sure it doesn't happen until pruning stops. In the market or greenhouse forum here there was a few professional growers saying they prune their tomatoes to one stem until they're three and a half or four feet then leave them alone. That's probably/hopefully what Ryan meant to suggest, and that's how I want to try the string trellis next year (with a half dozen plants). One problem is it gets hard to support with just vertical strings as he suggested. Once all the suckers are vigorous and producing suckers of their own, you either spend a ridiculous amount of time dropping multiple strings vertically to each and every sucker that then need to be clipped or wrapped a couple times a week; or, as I figured out late this year, tie off some horizontal strings (connecting everything) between six and eight feet. Three horizontal strings across the whole shebang 8 inches apart in height did the job better than a dozen or more vertical strings. Think of it like an elevated weave where needed. Also interesting how he used strings for peppers and eggplant. Thanks for the links.

Runsnwalken may be thinking of ethoxyquin, which is a preservative believed to be carcinogenic. Runsnwalken has consistently posted about the poor quality of commercial dog food, and while I agree with that basic premise, Ann Martin is guilty of overly-emotional fear-mongering and yellow journalism. The book is seriously light on REAL statistics and actual data. Quoting her book and making statements like dog food kills babies ("I'm quite sure somewhere in the us that a child has died/gotten sick from pet food")is conjecture, speculation, innuendo, sensationalism and histrionics. The top problems with Purina One are 1. The first ingredient is chicken inclusive of its water content (about 80%) and this ingredient will weigh only about 20% of its wet weight once water is removed (as it must be to make kibble) it is unlikely that this is the true first ingredient in the food. It would have been far better is chicken meal was the first ingredient listed. 2. Therefore, the true first ingredient is corn gluten, a waste product. Whole grain corn appears again as the 6th ingredient. Corn is grain that is difficult for dogs to digest and the cause of a great many allergy and yeast infection problems. 3. Brewers rice is the third ingredient. Brewers rice is a low quality grain and by-product. 4. The next ingredient is by-products. By-products that are of such low quality as to be rejected for use in the human food chain, or else are those parts that have so little value that they cannot be used elsewhere in either the human or pet food industries. 5. The fifth ingredient is wheat. Wheat is believed to be the number one cause of allergy problems in dog food. 6. Beef tallow is a very low quality fat. It's also used to make fabric softener. 7. Pea bran is filler. No way could Purina One be considered a decent food. There are plenty of decent foods in the same price range. OH, and comparing Purina One to Science Diet is certainly comparing apples to apples since the main ingredient in science Diet is also corn. Try comparing Purina One to Kirkland or Canidae, both of which have a named meat source as a true first ingredient for a more valid experiment. As a bonus, both Kirkland and Canidae are CHEAPER. Healthwise is another decent food that is cheaper than Purina One. I've done the comparison and have found a remarkable difference in coats, eyes, teeth, ears, energy and overall health between grocery/feed store crap and even the cheapest super-premiums. I've also compared cheaper super premiums and the more pricey super premiums. For me, there was no visible difference between Kirkland and Wellness. I had to discontinue an all-meat product (EVO) because it was too rich As chickadeedeedee stated, the claim that euthanized pets are rendered into dog food has been debunked. Part of the study is quoted below "Because pentobarbital is used to euthanize dogs and cats at animal shelters, finding pentobarbital in rendered feed ingredients could suggest that the pets were rendered and used in pet food. CVM scientists, as part of their investigation, developed a test to detect dog and cat DNA in the protein of the dog food. All samples from the most recent dog food survey (2000) that tested positive for pentobarbital, as well as a subset of samples that tested negative, were examined for the presence of remains derived from dogs or cats. The results demonstrated a complete absence of material that would have been derived from euthanized dogs or cats. The sensitivity of this method is 0.005% on a weight/weight basis; that is, the method can detect a minimum of 5 pounds of rendered remains in 50 tons of finished feed. Presently, it is assumed that the pentobarbital residues are entering pet foods from euthanized, rendered cattle or even horses. " Still not particularly appetizing, but not nearly as sensational as some would have you believe. Avoiding foods with ingredients such as "meat meal" and "meat by-products" (ahhhh...the mysterious "meat") is a good idea. I thought Shroppie gave a decent, general answer to your original question, Carmen_Grower_2007. Instead of thanking him (her?) you chose to snark at others and giggle at a spelling mistake. So others have SOHDD, but AMDD (Appropriate Manners Deficit Disorder) is OK?