Friday, June 8, 2018

Everything coming along normally, one late start nest

Bluebirds

On the south side, the four nestlings in box 9 fledged:








Those were the chicks 4 days ago and and now the box is empty. Box 11 is about at the stage where those were earlier:

My planned checks are such that I probably will see an empty box next time. Box 4 has two chicks and they too are well feathered and less than a week to go.


The 4 eggs on the North side hatched. I have a video and below that the sleeping four, 1-2 days old.



One pair is nesting in the golf course tree line boxes, prairie side. There was just one egg so far. All the rest on the North side are swallows.

The parent was inside just before I got there.

SWALLOWS

The box I have been following most closely is coming along with pinfeathered young, eyes open:


You can see more than 5 squeezed in there in Box 1 of South side.  There are many more with young at this point and a few with fully feathered young. They are very close together in age, not more than a week apart for 10 or more nests.


I was able to see more of them today than other days, without being attacked. Most I did not take pictures of, as the feather lining was in the way.

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