Just Messing Around

  I decided to get my big girl camera and dust it off because a photo challenge might be coming up in a few weeks.  Ellis is now so far ahead of me in skills wise I may never catch up.

So I took my camera out and set by the fire pit one evening...just enjoying the backyard.

July Bluebirds Babies

I had been seeing a pair of bluebirds flying around in the backyard. Then one night

when I was playing with the boys I say one go in the bluebird box. Thought I would give them the night and check out the box the next morning.

Sure enough...5 beautiful bluebird eggs.

Checked the next day...still five eggs.

I think I waited for about 2 weeks, maybe a few days more.  Checked again and found bluebird babies.

Hungry little babies.

Checked the next day.

Then I started counting little bluebird heads.

Then we left for a week on vacation.

One of the first things I did was check on by bluebird babies.  They have feathers now.  And I see a little blue on them.  So now I patiently wait for them to stick their little heads out the hole.  Don't want them to fall out of the nest when I open the door to the box.  Grow beautiful little blue babies, grow.

The Bluebirds Are Back

They Are Getting Bigger

I see little beaks.

Mom and Dad BlueBird Getting Down To Business

These are such good bluebird parents!  Seems now that the eggs have hatched they do nothing but feed the babies.  Can you imagine feeding six babies!  Dad does his share for sure.

After he finishes feeding mom swoops right in to deliver her meal.

 

Better start 'growing' some meal worms.  It is going to take lots once I see little beaks peeking out that hole!

Bluebird Babies In The Box

I am so excited to see this box filled with eggs!

I first found these three eggs.  I watch and waited.  Waited and watched.  After three weeks nothing.  I thought they were no good.

I was shocked when I saw three more eggs in the nest!  What?  So I googled it.

  "Incubation does not start until all the eggs have been laid, so they will hatch at the same time."

 

And there is different placement of the eggs.  I know chickens do this also.

And then one day they hatched.  All six of them!  This is one proud Bluebird momma!

The is one day later and they are already starting to turn blue.

Sleeping while I check and count beaks.   All six hanging in there.

Three days after I discovered them.  They get so much bigger so quickly.

This is just my thinking...but I think they know me.  The mom and dad don't seem to be one bit bothered by my checking the nest every day or so.  And they babies sleep through it all.

 

I'm thinking they aren't going to be in this box very long.  Going to get really crowded real soon.

Guess Who I Saw

Checking out the nesting box.  I hope that means we will be seeing a family sometime soon.  Gotta brush up on my bluebird knowledge.  Or maybe I will just talk to my friend Denise.

Look Who I See

 Just happened to be looking at the nesting box at just the right time.  I have been hearing the babies make a fuss and have yet to see them.  That is until tonight!  Now I am not going to get anything done!

 

Must be dinner time!

I see hungry mouths to feed.

What a lucky shot!