Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Weekly Bluebird Count

This week's Bluebird count netted us an amazing 71 Bluebird eggs and 6 Mountain Chickadee eggs.
Mountain Bluebird eggs
Mountain Chickadee eggs
The Chickadee nests are made up of mostly moss and fur while the Bluebird nests are all dried grass.

In addition to 77 eggs, we also found 2 new moms with a total of 10 hatchlings.
Western Bluebirds a few hours old
Unknown if these are Western or Mountain Bluebirds - 1 day old
It's hard to believe these little guys will fledge in about 15 days.

Although our main focus is the two species of Bluebirds in this area, we monitor all nest activity (even the squirrel that scared Mark half to death when he opened up a house!) 
Teri

4 comments:

  1. Oh boy, I'd sure like to see a pic of a mountain chickadee. I'd love documenting those birdhouses, but finding a squirrel's nest?...very shocking. It would have made me jump too!

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    1. The squirrel didn't seem too happy about it either! I don't know how he got in the tiny little hole.

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  2. Thanks for the pictures. We used to have bluebird houses in our sticks and bricks and I miss seeing all the action.

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    1. Welcome to our blog Karen!
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