Three Nests Left With Nestlings

North Side

On the North side, in less than a week, these three nestilings will leave the box. I finally saw the male feeding the nestlings as well. So it was not one parent. I suspect that there was some problem incubating and laying 5 eggs, so the first two nestlings may have hatched but if they were not quite as normal as the other three, they would have lost out on food. The three are now well feathered.

On the North side, one box of swallows fledged and the other swallows are not even close to having chicks hatch. The advanced nest has been left alone a week so I cleaned it out a bit, leaving most of the nest and feathers, One egg never hatched.

South Side

On the South side, the nestlings of Box 2 were sleepy. They are a few days behind the birds of the previous photo.

The male of this nest decided to aggressively sit on top of a swallow nest next door. The swallows even knocked him off the box once with aerial attacks. He held out some five minutes. The swallows have 4-5 eggs in the left box.

I have one more box of nestlings out there, The road currently looks like this and is a field of mud.

Somehow I got to the box half way to Coyote point and the nestlings are fine, four of them.

I won't be able to see them again or the empty box in a week, it is just too hard to get to it now.