Gotcha! No, we are not pregnant but everything else around us seems to be very fertile this year! After FOUR long, LONG years of watching our Bluebird pair build their nest with no success, we finally have four beautiful eggs!!! Yeah! Reese and I are a little nutty when it comes to the birds... they have names - Mr. Blue and Ms. Lucy (or Mrs. Blue on some days) and we buy worms to feed them on a regular basis. We are anxiously awaiting their arrival in the next few days! Today is day 16 since the last egg was laid so hopefully we will have babies soon!
Ms. Lucy protecting her nest. I had to tape the lookout door shut because all the neighbor kids keep on trying to see into the box. The silver cylinder at the bottom is a snake baffle that Mark built for me. We are not sure if the snakes had eaten the eggs in the past, but just in case! It's quite the contraption all for about $8 in supplies. Much better than the $40 baffle the bird store sold. I love my handy husband!
Our Black Capped Chickadees however are much more regular and this is about the 4th year that we have had babies in that box. The above picture is the baby just before he fled the next. There was another behind him... maybe giving him the boot! They have been fun to see grow - the kids were all mesmerized by the whole process and would often sit on the trampoline and watch the mother feed her babies. That's the momma below...
We have one other nest that we just discovered over the weekend in our Chocolate vine arch on the side of the house, but no pictures of them. It's quite the circus act, just to climb the ladder to see them... probably not the best time to take a picture unless I want to join my husband on the sick list with a broken back!
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I am jealous of all the birds - Black Capped Chicks. are our fav - there are none in the west. We have a pair of house finches who build a nest every year. This year we found the nest on the ground with the eggs broken :( keep posting pics of the birds - we love them!
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