Still hesitant nesting

A pair of bluebirds (female here on Box 8) managed to raise one young almost without me counting it as a bluebird, in the middle of swallow nest attempts:

Swallows have raised their young and several boxes (still rather few) are ready to go soon:

And the remaining three Bluebirds (two below) in two boxes are also ready.

On the minus side, the two "napping" last week may have been in their last few hours (they were breathing) and died. The birds get no water other than in food. Caterpillars are often the food.

Bad May

So we are just now recovering from a bad cold May. About 24-30 swallows will fledge, and Bluebirds will add up to 13 in a week.  That's actually a bad number for swallows, and I do not have really good data year to year, but up to 60 from 15-20 or so nests is normal.