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New owner for Lancaster’s Conestoga House
Lancaster’s historic Conestoga House and nearly eight acres of gardens, topiaries, hanging baskets, and tropical pots are set to reopen this spring under new ownership.
The one-time Colonial tavern at 1608 Marietta Ave. sold at auction last year to the Lancaster-based Ecklin Development Group, which specializes in redeveloping historic downtowns.
Ecklin bought the property for a reported $755,000 from the James Hale Steinman Conestoga House Foundation and plans to keep it open to public touring as well as private events.
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IMAGE: Both bluebirds and tree swallows, like this one, nesting in noisy boxes spent less time incubating their eggs, had fewer eggs hatch and produced fewer young than their neighbors nesting. view more
Credit: Julian Avery, Penn State
Some songbirds are not dissuaded by constant, loud noise emitted by natural gas pipeline compressors and will establish nests nearby. The number of eggs they lay is unaffected by the din, but their reproductive success ultimately is diminished.
That s the conclusion of a team of Penn State researchers who conducted an innovative, elaborate study that included unceasing playback of recorded compressor noise, 80 new, never-before-used nest boxes occupied by Eastern bluebirds and tree swallows, and behavioral observations with video cameras placed within boxes.