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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">In 2010 I had White-breasted Nuthatches nesting in the knot-hole of an oak tree. While watching it one day, I turned around and found a Cooper's Hawk nest in an oak tree maybe 20 ft south of where I was standing. The
nuthatches were close to fledging when a squirrel started giving them the business. I think some kids made it out of the nest. The Cooper's raised three young ones who fledged fine.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">After that the nuthatches started nesting in a knothole in our house fascia. This year they were thrown out by a squirrel. (We took this opportunity to replace the fascia.)</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Wondering where the nuthatches were going to go, I noticed them hanging out again near the original oak-tree that had the 2010 nest. </p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Yesterday, I watched a Cooper's Hawk break a twig off a tree. I watched where it went. Lo and behold, it is building a nest in the same oak tree as the 2010 nest! It is probably 15-20 ft higher in the tree, but there
it is. And... the male nuthatch brought a seed to feed the female who was sitting inside the old 2010 oak tree nest hole!</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">History repeats itself.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Molly Miller</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Inver Grove Hts</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Dakota Co.</p>
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