All Kinds of Eggs!

I don't know how else to compile the happenings, so we'll just go South and North. The North side boxes are the ones you can see from the Nature Center. There are no swallows left in boxes.

SOUTH SIDE

Box 11 four eggs are hatching TODAY. One had hatched, but was so tired from the effort the head is bent down. The one egg looks big because it has half a shell stuck on it.

Box 9 five nestlings have grown a lot, flight feathers coming within a week. Four bills plus one head down.

Here are the parents, who were a bit mad at me opening the box:

In the middle, I had some some bluebirds fly around the boxes, so I checked two boxes there. One (8) had a surprise four bluebird eggs. It had swallows earlier.

They were next to a box with wren eggs. I hope they get along. Under that are the two boxes with the bluebird on his box.

NORTH SIDE

Box 16 has the same two eggs it had for a few weeks. It seems to be a failure. Next to it is a box I cleared out of wren sticks. In it the same pair have made a new attempt, the female flew out as I checked that box.

Failure:

New attempt:

                                                                                                                                                                 
Finally, the nature center staff found a Killdeer nest near the road. They nest right on gravel. The parent is in danger of getting run over as it does its distraction display.