08/26/2026
The bird boxes at West Glenwood Open Space Preserve had another successful year of nesting! 🐣
Thanks to volunteers with the West Glenwood Nest Box Project who maintain these boxes for native birds at Glenwood including the violet-green swallows, western bluebirds, and chestnut backed chickadees that made their homes in the boxes this year.
Good nesting habitat can be hard to come by, and boxes like these provide a safe place to build a nest and lay eggs for our local songbirds.
This first photo is a female western bluebird feeding her two young poking their heads out of the entry to the box. The volunteers observed 7 western bluebirds fledging from the boxes at Glenwood this season!
You can see the color difference from the female to the male western bluebird who has much stronger blue and orange hues to his feathers. Our camera was mounted on a pole across from the nesting box and seems to have been a common perch spot.
The volunteers checked the boxes throughout West Glenwood Preserve during the spring and summer months.
They tap the box before opening to flush out the adult birds. This causes less stress for the adult birds when checking the status of the nest inside. If you see a bird box at Glenwood, or anywhere else please don’t flush the birds or open the box. Our volunteers are specially trained!
A violet-green swallow sitting on top of one of the bird boxes at Glenwood. There were 10 violet-green swallows that our volunteers observed fledging at Glenwood this year!
Learn more about the West Glenwood Preserve Nest Box Project and see more photos at wgnestbox.org
