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I am so happy for you!!! Congratulations!! Maybe spring is finally here!
I think “our” pair has settled on a box. The chickadees have been putting fur into the closest-by box, so they’re focused and the bluebirds seem to be ignoring them. The swallows started putting feathers into their box today. If I see evidence of a bluebird nest, I’ll be doing cartwheels! I plan to do my annual front garden path re-paving today–my “paving” = pine needles. So that should inspire the bluebirds!
Still no eggs. My pair completed the nest about a week ago. The weather has been absolutely miserably cold though. Is it common for egg laying delaying due to weather? I was thinking there would be 4 or 5 eggs by now.
Yes, the weather could make a difference to some pairs. My silly pair started WAY early this year and I had to keep my fingers, toes and eyes crossed that they would make it through several freezes and miserable weather – and they did and have fledged already. Whew! I’m pretty sure you will get some eggs soon. Good luck.
We’re having another freeze tonight over here in PA. It’s crazy. I did spy a chickadee egg today in their nest, and the tree swallows are finally building. Not sure if eggs are there or not. I can never tell with them due to all the feathers in the box. At least you have a bluebird nest!! We don’t have any right now. I think they’re nesting two yards up. I hope they come back…But yes, this spring has been crazy cold.
We’re having down-in-the-dumps, too, at the moment. The blues are definitely nesting elsewhere, but we remain hopeful they’ll be here for Round 2 since the male visits a lot. The chickadee nest with the egg…the egg has now disappeared. Day 2 of their egg laying, the male bluebird went into the box. I was about to put on a hole reducer, too! So not sure what the chickadees are doing, altho’ they are surely around here constantly. I’ve checked the other Gilbertson, and there’s a chickadee nest on the go in there. The tree swallows are mating and egg laying now. In the other swallow box, there’s a lone feather, so evidence that someone was in there at one point. But no BLUES!!! So we have the blues, too….
Have to say my neighbor came barreling across the yard toward me nearly shouting, “Where are our bluebirds?!” Last year they nested in the box that faces their patio, and they had a ball watching them. I told him the deck guys scared ’em off to the other neighbors. Then he looked worried and said, “Oh no, I hope they come back.” So many of us are vested in these wonderful birds!!
Happy to report that this morning I saw the momma pop her head out of the box after several weeks of no sightings and an empty nest. I snapped a photo inside and we have our first egg of 22!
Slowly but surely. I guess she’ll be laying another this morning? This is egg number two. Hope I didn’t disturb #3
I usually get 4, too, Phillyblues. Hey, keep forgetting to ask you if you know about the PA Bluebird Society. They have a great newsletter. You can read the newsletters for free on the website– http://www.thebpsp.org
They publish year round, so you get to enjoy bluebird stuff in winter, which keeps me happy! I’ve never been to the annual conference. I just joined in 2020 when everything shut down.
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