Happy Fathers Day and Happy First Day of Summer

Welcome to the first day of Summer on the Green Meadows Preserve Park Bluebird Trail.

This is the summer season photo of the Tree of Life, she is so full, green and beautiful during this season.

Come bring your easy chair and a bottle of water and come set a spell during these mid 90's HOT days.

She will make you feel cooler just by looking at her, must less setting under her beautiful green cool canopy.


Our last Walk and Talk Tour on Saturday June 13th was a big success, we had 25 brave people come out on a HOT Saturday morning to learn more about the Bluebird Trail and Bluebird.

We had a number of people that were back for there second Walk and Talk Tour. It is always good when we see faces that we recognize and they have guest with them.

One of the items we need for the Bluebird Trail and the many kids and school groups that we do field trips for is Binoculars new or used.

The kids love to take Binoculars on their walks, they think they can see so many more birds and they can see them up close. We put numbers on the binoculars and they check them out and in after their walk.

 We have a donation box inside the gate under the shed for you to drop off any binoculars that you might wish to donate to the Bluebird Trail. Anything you do is always appreciated and used on the trail.

The Bluebird Trail is totally funded through Sponsorships, Contributions and friends of the Bluebird Trail. My pocket funds the difference that it takes to feed the birds during nesting season to help with the healthy development of the baby birds and the cold winter to help keep them alive.

During the Nesting season we feed them Dried Mealworms, to help supplement their insect diet.

Now their are a lot of wild black berries in the park that helps with their food source.

If you come and walk the trail you will see a lot of the wild black berries as you walk the trail.

This is why we are planting berry producing shrubs/trees that are sponsored by different individuals to replace the man made perches at each Nest Box. This will help to provide food during the fall and winter to cut down on our mealworm cost. They are all native trees/shrubs and we have planted 6 already and have 15 that have been sponsored. We will plant the remainder of shrubs/trees in the fall, so they can get established during the fall and winter when we get rain.

Right now we are having to haul water in five gallon buckets out to the 6 shrubs/trees that we have planted. With this mid 90 degree weather and not much rain, we are trying to keep them alive until we get some rain on a regular basis.

I am so excited this year we have hatched and fledged to broods of Tree  Swallows. Last year they made a nest in Nest Box #16 but never laid eggs. This year they made a nest in #19 and #24 laid eggs, hatched and fledged 5 baby Tree Swallows from both nest boxes. They are such a beautiful bird with white chest blue/green feathers on their backs. As you see they use grass and lots of feathers to build their nest.

I hope on your next walk on the Trail you will be able to see the adults flying around the open fields.

Look for this logo to be around the trail soon as our official logo giving directions and distances for the Bluebird Trail. This logo was designed and developed by a group of Kennesaw State Students for the Friends of Green Meadows Preserve Park.

We hope to be able to have the signs in areas of question as to which way you should go to follow the Trail. As you can see it is of the Bluebird and our Tree of Life in the Park.

NestWatch - 2015 Quick Summary

 32 - Total Nest Sites being monitored

 47 - Total Nesting Attempts

177 - Total Eggs

143 - Total Young

122 - Total Fledglings

 

Remember

 

We will discontinue our Walk and Talk Tours for the Summer,

 

we will start the Tours again in the Fall, 

 

look for the scheduled dates in our next blog.

 

 

Any questions: email me at

 

jimbearden@bellsouth.net

 

 

Green Meadows Preserve Park Bluebird Trail

 

Where Birds Come to Life!

 

 

Thanks for joining us along the Trail.....Jim B