Help! 5 bluebird eggs and non have hatched

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  • July 20, 2017 at 11:07 am #5720
    Whitney Gregge
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      5 eggs today, they are going all out lol

      July 20, 2017 at 9:50 pm #5723
      Whitney Gregge
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        Some good new: 3 of the 4 Mockingbird eggs hatched today!

        July 20, 2017 at 10:09 pm #5724
        Lisa
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          Susan, I can’t imagine 5 babies smushed up in my little birdhouse in this heat! I’m glad yours have a bigger house!

          July 21, 2017 at 5:34 am #5730
          verachuckdave
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            I have to admit that I am very worried. Each day that I look in and they are still okay, I breathe a sigh of relief!

            Susan
            Pennsylvania

            July 21, 2017 at 5:40 am #5731
            verachuckdave
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              Whitney: Where do your mocking birds nest? I have a family of mocking birds, and they are very comical to watch. I really like them (as long as they aren’t bullying the bluebirds too much!). They seem to spend a lot of time high in one of my pine trees, but I don’t know where the nest is. Every morning and every evening I make a line of plump blueberries on the rail that encloses my deck. One by one the blueberries disappear as the mockers come in and take them. Yesterday, the mocker knocked a blueberry off the rail, and he looked so funny chasing it as it rolled across the deck. . .those little legs were really moving. :ROFL:

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              Susan
              Pennsylvania

              July 21, 2017 at 11:30 am #5735
              Whitney Gregge
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                Hahaha that’s funny! My neighbors have a lot of big bushes in their yard and the mockingbirds love them. This nest is about chest high in one of the bushes. Momma BB is incubating the 5 eggs today. It’s supposed to get 98 today :(

                August 4, 2017 at 8:35 am #5927
                Whitney Gregge
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                  Well today brings the 14th day since the eggs were laid. As of yesterday none had hatched. Really hoping they aren’t infertile again :(

                  August 4, 2017 at 4:34 pm #5929
                  verachuckdave
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                    Oh no! Hopefully they are just late to hatch. . . fingers crossed!

                    Susan
                    Pennsylvania

                    August 4, 2017 at 8:11 pm #5931
                    Lisa
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                      Keep us posted!! Mine don’t usually hatch right on schedule but my current bunch hatched on day 14 so mama must have started incubating the day the last one was laid!

                      August 5, 2017 at 4:03 pm #5936
                      Whitney Gregge
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                        Still no babies today. Momma is still incubating. I’ve had a terrible first year. This is 3rd Bb clutch and no babies. All the baby mockingbirds disappeared, im guessing predator. Only luck so far is some house Wrens that are on day 11 today, should fledge later this week. They are in a small bird house I have in my front yard tree.

                        August 5, 2017 at 8:57 pm #5939
                        Lisa
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                          Oh my gosh. Praying that you see some tomorrow! The problem is that you can’t know when incubation starts :(
                          I would be crying if I had a house wren nest. You are a WAY better person than I am!
                          Still keeping fingers and toes crossed for yours.

                          August 5, 2017 at 9:00 pm #5940
                          Lisa
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                            For me, the third try was always the charm. I hope this holds true for you!

                            August 6, 2017 at 8:50 pm #5948
                            dogsandbirds
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                              Whitney, I would be STOMPING around if I had a house wren nest!

                              I hope those eggs hatched today.

                              Gin
                              Atlanta, GA

                              August 6, 2017 at 11:15 pm #5951
                              Lisa
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                                I hate House Wrens with a red hot passion after they destroyed my first nest and still steal my mealworms. And still haven’t found their darn nest!

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