Bird Watching: A new bluebird thread, 1 by 2dCousinDave

2dCousinDave wrote:
Thanks but probably not, duc. I was just messing around, trying to understand how to work with layers (that collage has 17 layers) and I did get better at it as I went along. The hardest thing for me was getting the sizes of the various birds approximately right. What I think I want to do next is make an all bluebird collage, with a nice picture of the male and female in the middle and about 10 or 15 smaller pics around the outside, showing the whole cycle of their life, from eggs to fledging, and some of the various looks as the juveniles molt, to in flight shots, wing-waving, nest building and so forth.

Incidentally, four of the five eggs from our second brood hatched early this afternoon. The other one should hatch tomorrow. (She laid a fifth egg the day after she began incubating the first four). I watched her on the nest cam and knew at least one had hatched when I saw her eating an egg shell. When she left to take a break I dashed out and took a couple of pictures. At that time only three had hatched but as you can see from the pipping marks in this picture, number four was about ready. I looked again about an hour later and only saw one unhatched egg.