It’s time to watch for babies again. I don’t think I have done a recent update here on my blog. So I thought I would catch you up. My bluebirds have laid 6 eggs for their second clutch. This picture was from April 30th.
I estimated that the last egg was probably laid on April 28th. I checked the nest again yesterday – I had to wait on mom to go out and get some food. In case you wondered she does roll the eggs around. Here they are on May 8th.
I like how they were in a circle before and now they are in rows. She incubates for about 12-14 days and this would be day 11 – so any day now….maybe they will be Mother’s Day babies!
I found a Blueberry Camera in a house at Berry College which is in north Georgia. You can find it here if you would like to have an inside view. Their bluebird laid 4 eggs but only 1 hatched – one of the professors checked the remaining eggs yesterday and removed them from the nest since they weren’t viable. The baby in that nest box hatched last Friday morning – so it is 1 week old.
Here are a couple of other pictures – mom peeking out of the house as she incubates the eggs –
And this one is dad at one of the feeders with a baby from the first clutch – the baby is hungry and dad is still feeding it. I’m not sure how long after they fledge that the dad continues to feed. This could be the runt – remember the one that was having trouble flying. I’ll to see if I can learn some more about that.
Enjoy!
