Fledglings

Yupp, box checking time again. And yupp, more exciting news! This week we did it on Friday, so as not to disturb the Memorial Day celebrations at the cemetary.

All the boxes were checkable except for box number three, which had babies in the process of fledging. so here's an update:

C1: 3 tiny tiny babies, just born and 2 eggs. who knows if the eggs will hatch, the babies were just born, so there is still a good chance the eggs could hatch. One of the babies was just waking up from a 'nap' and opened his mouth, then laid his head back down on one of the unhatched eggs. CUTEST THING EVER!!! look at the picture!

C2: Last week, we couldn't check this box because the birds were fledging, but we checked this week, and the birds were all gone! FIVE NEW BLUEBIRDS! :) but even more extraodinary was the fact that the birds had built a nest on top of the old one! You could clearly tell where one nest was and where the other one was. We took the bottom, used nest out of the box and put the newer nest on the bottom. If the nests get too close to the top, the birds could get squished. It also give them a higher chance of losing their babies out the hole.

C3: no check this week, or next week. hopefully when we check them again, there will be five more birds gone

C4: this was the first week to check this box after the birds fledged. good news! FOUR MORE FLEDGLINGS, meaning four more bluebirds are out there in the world! We cleaned out the nest and hung the box back up, ready for another nest.

C5: this box we emptied last week, but this week, no new nest had started being built yet

C6: new box that we hung last week in the middle of boxes 4 and 5, and this week, there was a nest! it was really developed, so hopefully we'll have eggs next week :)

We also checked the other boxes around the city. The R family box had bigger babies this week than they did last week. We can't check that box for two weeks now as the babies grow and fledge.

After this week, our count stands at: 14 fledged bluebirds, 2 new nests, 2 eggs, 8 babies (at different stages), and hopefully by the end of next week, 5 new fledglings :)