The cycle of life starts again..... I have 5 little bluebird eggs in the backyard box and I think the female may have started incubation today (although she started laying eggs over a week ago so I'm not really sure. ) The pairs behavior yesterday though was very unusual. They were flying back and forth between the two boxes (back and front). Strange, as the front box is home to a new chickadee nest. The male bluebird even chased the chickadee out of it! Unusual behavior as they already have a nest with eggs. In retrospect though I think the bluebirds were using box #2 as a decoy in an attempt to keep the predator birds away from their box with eggs. During that same time period there was a lot of activity from Crows and Blue Jays in the back garden. This back and forth behavior went on for at least 3-4 hours - quite frantically at times. But today all is quiet, and happily the little chickadee started building a new nest in the chickadee box several feet away.
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| Pair of bluebirds on box without the eggs yesterday |
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| Four little bluebird eggs - but now there are five ! |
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| Chickadee box - perfect size hole for chickadee and too small for a bluebird ! |
