What a Surprise- first Bluebirds this year

No photos yet but I wanted to tell you anyway. I left my bluebird house up over the winter and had no birds in it since last fall. I cleaned it up around the middle of February and put it back up. I had NC Chickadees, wrens, and eastern bluebirds visit but no nests. I checked on it 2 weeks ago before we went to Virginia Beach after Easter and noticed a nest but I could never find out which bird(s) were the owners.

Yesterday as I was mowing the lawn I drove by the birdhouse and noticed a pair of eyes staring our at me - then a female bluebird flew out. I checked inside and found 3 eggs. I am very pleased. This will be our second brood. I hope that there are more eggs on the way as my first pair last year only had 3.

I will take some photos and post them as they make themselves available

Congratulations blue!!

Although I have not seen the pair at the bird house they are adding to the clutch. We have 5 eggs this morning.

Congratulations Blue and best wishes for a happy BB season!

Oh, that's wonderful! Love the pic, too!

How neat!

We must be into incubation of the 5 eggs. The male and female take turns on the shepherds hook that has my hummingbird feeder. Here are a few photos of them.
This is papa bird.

And another of the male.

Here is the female.

and another of the female.

And a last on of the male. I just missed getting a photo of a female hummingbird on the feeder with the bluebird.

Nice pics blue! That's a handsome couple.

Well, they surprised me again. I was mowing the lawn today (between rain storms) and looked into the nest to see how they were doing with the eggs. I expected them to hatch today or tomorrow (5/7/09). I found 5 little nestlings with their beginning feathers!!! I would say they hatched about 2 or 3 days ago. Here are a couple of photos.

and one more.

Oh that is great!! Congratulations!!

feeding time. Here is mama sitting on the hook, waiting her turn to deliver a grub to the babies.

still waiting!!!

he sure take a long time in there!!!