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Bald Mountain installation images March 25.

Installing Box 1.

Placing Box 2

Box 3, putting screws into tree.

Box 3 finished

View from Bald Mountain.

Heil Ranch (2) installation images, March 24.

Collecting people and boxes at trailhead

Monitors posing by Box 3.

Box 4.

Installing a box.

Box 8 next to huge juniper.

Eldorado Mountain installation, March 20. This trail is on Boulder OSMP land. Technicians from both OSMP and Boulder County POS participated in the installation.

Measuring box 1 height after installation.

Boxes 2-4 are on the edge of a burn area with many downed trees.

Box 4.

Box 7.

Box 9.

A second trail was added at Betasso in late Feb, 2008.

Installing Betasso Box 12 with power drill/screwdriver

Adding an ID label to Betasso Box 15

Labeling Betasso Box 16

Pretty box location at Betasso (May 23)

The Shanahan Ridge trail was installed May 9, 2007, too late to expect bluebirds to use it that year.

Posing by Box 2 after installation.

No bluebirds, but Violet-green Swallows did nest in this box. Note the feathers, typical for swallow nests.

A forest carpeted with Penstemon, May 24, 2007

Western Bluebird chick near fledging from woodpecker hole, June 15,2007.