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| Four new bluebird eggs |
Three
more bluebirds fledged in the past week (19 total) and there are now 17
bluebird eggs in four nest boxes. If all goes well, this year’s totals could be
the second highest in the six years the trail has existed. Sadly, I found two
young bluebirds dead of unknown cause in the box where the other three fledged.
I
did not open the last tree swallow box since the young birds may be too near to
fledging.
There
are now five empty boxes. Two had small amounts of nesting materials probably
belonging to house sparrows, which I removed. Another had a pair of bluebirds
defending it, who will hopefully soon build another nest inside. The last box
has an empty bluebird nest in it.
