Bird Watching: When it rains it pours tree swallows and blue birds, 1 by OPbirder

OPbirder wrote:
Tree swallow update! I tried looking inside their box a couple times this week. The male flies out and sits on the building giving me "the look." I thought the female would exit, too. But, when I open the box she hunkers down obviously to protect the family. Truly, if I did not know she was still in the box, I wouldn't have a clue she was there. I would have to pry up her body to look, and I'm not about to do that. Since she flew out when she had eggs, I can only assume they have hatched. Here's the dad.

Oh, my colleague, Amy Powell, took the pictures.