Baby Watch!

Cold by Southern California standards, we humans bundled up to go check bluebird boxes. The bluebirds didn't seem to mind, as there was lots of activity around (and in) the boxes! For boxes that had babies last week (C2) we cannot check after this week because we need to give the birds time to fledge. After the birds have been hatched, we can check for two weeks, then have to wait two weeks so the birds do not fledge early.

R family box: five little babies (all five eggs hatched!)

C1: four little babies (means there were two more eggs laid)

C2: six babies (meaning the other 2 eggs did hatch!) this box will not be checked for two more weeks

C3: five baby birds (all of the eggs hatched)

C4: five eggs (up zero from last week) with the mother and father bird around

C5: six little babies (meaning all six eggs hatched, a large nest!)

To date we have:

26 babies

5 eggs

6 active nests