Here is the female feeding the baby birds.
If you look carefully, you can see a nestling looking through the opening in the bird box.
This morning I watched the male bird seemingly try to coax the fledglings from the box. He called, flew to the box, flew back to the tree, called again. A couple of times he went inside the box. I had other things to do and couldn't just watch all morning, so I went on about my chores. This evening, I could hear the bluebird calling in the edge of the wooded area nearby. Maybe the birds finally left the nest today. I will look tomorrow to see if there is any activity at the box.
I've enjoyed watching them raising their brood.
I have become a bird watcher. I have one bird box of Chickadees and some beautiful read colored birds in the RV Port.
ReplyDeleteI got up a few days ago to find five babies on the deck below the bird house, dead. Now it seems the chickadees are setting more eggs, I am surprised, but I hope they are. I cannot imagine what killed the babies, do squirrels do that? I know snakes do but the snake would have eaten the birds methinks?
Love the pictures. Sweet entry!
I don't know what happened to your birds. I'm sure a snake would have swallowed them right there in the nest.
DeleteI love watching bluebirds. The storms over the last few years destroyed our houses. I need to build some more.
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