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Fantastic pics, Dave. Thanks for sharing. My lone surviving nestling is due to fledge Sunday. What is the acceptable number of days from hatching is fledging expected?
BTW, what kind of camera do you use? I’d love to get close ups like that. My Samsung 7 phone just doesn’t cut it.
Scot
I’d like to just go on record and say what torture it is after day 12 waiting for the nestlings to fledge without being able to look in every day like I did until day 12. The only solace I have is watching momma and poppa go in and out with meal worms and fecal sacs. I need a nestbox cam!
Thanks David and Lori.
It certainly IS an emotional roller coaster……and quite a daily obsession.
Scot
My female on Day 1…….
https://www.flickr.com/gp/52710059@N02/02YD0v
My hatchling a few hours after birth…..
https://www.flickr.com/gp/52710059@N02/zEJD8n
Hope these are useable links. Enjoy.
Scot
David, awesome pics. Thanks for posting. I have amazing pics and video of my sole survivor who is on Day 10 today. If I could figure out how to post them, I would.
Gin, thanks for the words of encouragement. Do you find that parents will build another nest for a second brood in the same box despite 3 of 4 eggs not hatching? I’m hoping they will, once my little guy fledges and I clean out the existing nest.
Hi David,
I’m a first timer. My first brood produced 4 eggs. Only one hatched and is doing fine. I removed the unhatched 3 at day 22. Two of them were duds with no fetus, and one actually had a fully formed fetus. It must have died during incubation. 75% failure rate. I’m pretty sad about that. Maybe my pair will try again after my sole survivor fledges around May 15.
The egg seemed awful small to be a robin egg. I have a picture, if I can just figure out how to post it here….lol
Hi,
I’m Scot and new to bluebirding. I have a nest box with 4 eggs. Today is around day 12 of incubation. I found an empty destroyed blue bird egg near my bird bath today, which is a few feet from the nest box. The 4 eggs are still there and the mom is still incubating. There are no other signs of distress or trauma and no baby bird parts anywhere……………just the destroyed egg and yolk.
Thoughts?
