Are you ready for a bluebird update?  Since I last posted those babies grew up and last week they left the nest!  My guess is that it was Wednesday.  Monday I took a bunch of pictures and Tuesday they were still there in the afternoon – but Thursday afternoon they were gone.  Once they leave the house needs to be cleaned but I was busy Friday so it didn’t get done and I was planning to do it this weekend (on Sunday actually).  But Saturday morning before I left to go to a scrapbook crop I noticed the bluebirds going in and out of the house again.  I watched for a few minutes and realized they were trying to clean it out.  So I decided I need to go clean it out for them real quick and save them a couple of days worth of work.  I grabbed a bag, some paper towels and some clorox wipes – opened the house and scooped out the old nest, wiped out the rest of the loose material and then scrubbed the inside of the house so it would be clean.  I went to my crop and came back about 4 hours later – to find that the house was full again with pine straw – yep they were busy all day building a new nest!!  So I’ll keep my eye for another set of eggs.  In the meantime I have pictures to share that I took over the last couple of weeks.

Male Bluebird flying away from the bird house

Mama Bluebird with a yummy worm for her babies

hungry baby – see the wide open mouth in the hole of the bird house?

flying action bringing food to the babies

Bluebird Family – mom and dad on top of the house and one of the babies peeking out of the hole.

Even birds have to do house cleaning!

see the babies peeking out of the hole – looking for their food

You can just see three little beaks in the hole – everybody wants to be the next one to get the food.

Most of these photos were the ones I tool on April 22nd – just a couple of days before they left the nest.  I’m sure it was crowded in that house with those 5 babies in there.  I hope you enjoyed the pictures!

I’ll post more this week about the retreat so be sure to visit again.

Monika