Bluebirds, or not Bluebirds?

 I have not determined that any nests are bluebirds for sure. There was one nest with four nestlings and feather lining. Swallows should have 5-7 nestlings. The chicks looked like this:

They looked like good sized birds and had eyes open. If they were swallows, they would start to look like this soon:

So we may very well have Bluebirds in a feather lined nest! The birds move around and fight over boxes at first, so some feathers may have been put in then.

Several swallow pairs have chicks, very young, I will leave most of those boxes alone. In a week you can see busy parents at this box on the Nature Center side. It can be seen from the gold course tree line.

The South side still has no bluebird nests. If we are lucky, we will get two pairs nesting with a total of 8 to 16 chicks. Normal is about 25.