Bluebird nestlings day five

Oh no! Where are the baby bluebird pictures?!!! Where’s my nestling update?!!! No worries, I just had to get some color into the blog today…too much orangey-brown going on lately (incidentally, spell-checker doesn’t like the word orangey…oh well). Here’s our male blue out in the tree this morning on a very springy Carolina day. He’s also waiting on me to put the camera down and feed him some mealworms. “Patience…, patience…,” as my dad would say. Actually he’s lucky he got anything this morning as I was in a huge rush. Consequently, these pics aren’t as well-focused as I’d like, but they still work for our update purposes I think.

So…here they are, growing like the clover in my front yard (which is very fast for those of you with great lawns and no weed problems). Anyway, they’re even more packed in there today, and it’s kind of hard to see the fifth nestling again. Four heads are easy to make out, and you can figure the body lines fairly easily, but where’s the fifth? I’m pretty sure he (or she) is tucked up under a little overhang there in the top right corner. I can’t see an actual head, but there’s an unaccounted for body part there, so that’s my best guess. Wings and heads look a tad darker today, and the color on their backs a little wider, but that’s about all I can see…except that they’re bigger!

Lastly, from our “too close! too close!” department, I give you the “Name That Egg” contest! We have bird nest here at work that has a few eggs in it and an angry mama guarding it closely. I’ll show you who she is tomorrow, but for now you can guess and win some of Shelley’s Zingerman cranberry pecan bread if you’re right. Well, not really, but guess anyway.  Dave  :-)

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