Top Photo: Eastern bluebird eggs.

We have one empty nest box, one with a nest sans eggs (chickadees), two with 1 egg each (chickadee and bluebird) and a total of eleven nestlings (4 chickadees and 7 bluebirds.

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After having been raided by a house wren and emptied of its five eggs, the bluebird pair has apparently rallied and started a new nest. The Cow Pasture nest box has come back to life and so far holds one bluebird egg.

Oddly, the egg has faint red markings on it. I don’t recall seeing that on a bluebird egg in the past.

The chickadee nest in the nest box in Explore the Wild had five eggs last week. It now has four nestlings and one egg. It looks as though the brood hatched this morning (4.23.24). I suspect the last egg will hatch later in the day, if not as soon as we close the door and leave the birds alone.

The bluebirds in the nest box at Into the Mist seem well and nearly ready to fledge. The adults were nearby as we peeked inside the nest box, each with a morsel of food in their beaks. And, judging by the earthworm inside the nest they’ve been busy delivering nourishment to the nestlings.

The Parking Deck East nest box is empty, no second brood yet. This nest box has already seen five bluebirds fledge.

Still no eggs in the chickadee nest in the nest box on the west side of the parking deck.

The Butterfly House nest appears to have two bluebird nestlings.

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So, we now have one empty nest box, two chickadee nests, one with 4 nestlings, the other nest built but lacking eggs or nestlings, and one rebuilt bluebird nest with one egg. There’s a total of seven bluebird nestlings in two additional nests.