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I looked this afternoon (day 5) and saw that the egg was right on top so I gently wiggled my finger under it and plucked it out. I looked right after and saw that it left about a quarter of the space they were laying in empty. Which made me feel better hopefully it gives them more room.
She laid 6 eggs and I’m pretty sure I’m only seeing 4 of hatchlings but I don’t see the other egg. Maybe it’s way down there or they took it out. Are they able to pick them up?
I thought it hatched then I realized it’s kinda down in the nest, I can barely see it. So nothing I could really do anyway. Yea, hopefully it doesn’t break.
Thanks.
Judy – How cold is it getting there? I would say it’s seasonable here. The first egg hatched today and it’s suppose to be around 50 tonight. Last couple nights ago it got down in the 30’s.
I plugged all the vent and drain holes on my house and wrapped it with this thick pad I folded a couple times. Didn’t quite reach all the way around so I stuffed some foam down there and zip tied the whole thing. It stays 7ish degrees warmer at night and over 10 degrees warmer in the day when the suns out. Not sure if it’s something you could do. I would think they should be good, she keeps them pretty warm.
Wow so cool! Can’t wait for the eggs in my box to hatch, def cool watching these. I just hope everything goes well would be really hard to watch if something happened to one of them.
I have also used the reptile kind you’re talking about with vitimin D, got it from petsmart. Prob wouldn’t hurt.
Awesome picture! Early brood!
I get my calcium off amazon, comes quick. See image.
What kind of area do you live in? Rural? Suburbs?
My place is somewhat rural. I have woods as part of a horse farm across the street. Woods across a creek behind me. A flower farm across a meadow and a creek to the right and my only real neighbor to the left about 500 ft or so with a big yard with some scattered trees between us. I live on about 2.75 acres of land.
I see house sparrows every now and again, I scare them off when ever I do. I’m a freelance designer so I have the luxury of working from home and can monitor things. During the winter there were quite a few around going for mealworms I leave for the blues. There were some around in spring sniffing around the houses (I have 3 up). I would go out looking like an idiot yelling at them, fortunately there is nobody to see besides some cars driving by. The blue birds were good about chasing them off their box, which they’ve had to do a handful of times this year, if that. When I scare them away they usually fly toward the flower farm. They just put up a ton of bird houses a couple years ago and I’m scared they are over there breeding like mad. For about three weeks now I really haven’t seen a male house sparrow. I’ve only seen one female that occasionally tries to get mealworms, but thats it. They haven’t even been bothering the tree swallows who just started building their nest right in front of my house. Last year was kinda the same way, by the time breeding season got going they were really never to be seen. Hoping my neighbors at the farm got educated and started killing them. Hope I don’t have to start doing it, I have a box trap.
Yea i’m still working it out, frustrating.
If you click on top right tab takes you to nest 1, click on that and it takes you to the videos, just click on picture. Trying to find some time to make it easy to navigate.
Thanks for the heads up. This should work now.
Good thing for them birds have the ability to sleep with one side of their brain and stay awake with the other to stay alert. If she only knew she is pretty safe in there at night.
