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Visitors to the Rappahannock Library may have noticed a number of nest boxes in open areas around the building. These boxes are an effort to help Eastern Bluebirds build to their former population levels. Introduced Starlings and House Sparrows brought them to a dangerous low by taking over nesting cavities. DDT, now banned for use in the U.S., also decimated bluebird populations.
“The library sits in prime bluebird nesting habitat,” commented John Trott. His idea of placing nest boxes there was greeted with enthusiasm by Librarian, David Shaffer, who is an avid bird watcher with a remarkable ear for bird song. Shaffer took the idea to the Board of Directors of the library who were equally enthusiastic.
Bruce Jones, a conservationist who is developing his acres on Long Mountain Road as a wildlife sanctuary, supplied the boxes and placed them at locations suggested by Trott.
Usually nest boxes on a bluebird trail are numbered to facilitate the monitoring that involves frequent checks of nesting activity and recording of data. Since libraries are a focus of great literature, Trott and Shaffer named each box for a favorite English novelist of the 18th and 19th century. Lee Trott painted an author’s name on each box before Jones put them up.
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