Bird Watching: A few pictures of my bluebirds., 1 by 2dCousinDave

2dCousinDave wrote:
Quite a few of us now have bluebirds nesting. I take pictures of mine every day but haven't posted any for a while. Here are a few from this morning. If you have been following Rose's thread you know I have been having problems. Yesterday Mama laid her first egg in her second nest. (I had previously removed her first nest (which was in a Gilbertson PVC box) and five eggs after they failed to hatch--probably the cold weather). Her current nest box is the standard shape but had a slotted opening at the top.

Less than 2 hours after she laid the egg yesterday, I found it broken on the ground under the nestbox. I suspect it was the work of a cowbird. I went ahead and attached the sparrow spooker and last night I went out and removed the slotted panel I love so much and replaced it with the more typical kind, with a 1 1/2 inch round hole opening.

I was curious as to how the birds would react when they arrived at the nest box this morning. They were surprised, obviously. Here is Mama trying to squeeze in through the tiny slot I left at the top of the panel.