Bluebird babies (fledglings)
Bluebirds by request!
Okay, ask and you shall receive! For those of you blessed with my much-coveted snow right now but who are perhaps already dreaming of spring, here are some more summer Eastern bluebirds to help warm you up! All of the pictures are from early June of this year, and most are of the fledglings from [...]
Hurt, dazed, or sunbathing birds?
Hello, and a happy Friday to you! The photos are really coming in now…everyone is taking me up on my offer to send them in, and it’s great! I’d love to include at least one reader-submitted photo in each blog entry, so please keep them coming (you can email me your pictures at dheiser@wncn.com)! Today [...]
Birding delight…Tina shares her pictures!
Have I got a treat for you today! All the pictures in this blog are from Tina in Pennsylvania. She emailed me some of her recent favorites, and they are great! Plus, they add some fun variety with some different birds. At right is what looks to be a female downy woodpecker (males have a small red spot [...]
Bluebird pictures and a towhee!
Greetings! Lots of fun bird pictures to show you today, and of course the bluebirds are the headliners, except for this very cool butterfly that landed on some really bright green leaves in our backyard. Butterflies aren’t birds, but they do fly, and it adds some fun color right at the top! This blog gladly [...]
Bluebirds, nests, and a hurt baby?
Wow! Our bluebirds are definitely back! Saturday morning was a flurry of activity with the male actively recruiting/lobbying for the female to start another nest in our nestbox and the female eating all the mealworms we would supply. Each time she flew close to the box (he has officially reclaimed the spot as his perch [...]
First bluebird egg has hatched!
Just a few pictures today and a quick update on the eggs…as I was leaving the house and rushing off to work, I gave the nestbox one last check, and one egg had hatched! We have a new baby bluebird! Sorry to not get a picture to you, but I’d already taken some earlier, uploaded, and [...]
Eastern bluebird eggs…getting close to hatching!
Okay, it’s day 12 now, and the eggs are still unhatched and okay. All five are under the careful watch and care of this fella and his wife, so predators come near at your own risk!
In my last entry I promised you a story about a house wren who recently tried to take over our [...]
Bluebirds and cardinals…so happy together!
I had a buddy at work who asked about seeing some cardinal pictures…and yes, cardinals can get some love, even on a blog that belongs mostly to the bluebirds! These are some cardinal visitors (below) that came by this morning. Most of the pictures I’m showing you all are either from that morning or the day before; occasionally [...]
Will a bluebird eat out of your hand?
Welcome back! Today is day eight for our bluebird eggs, and the mama (left) continues to faithfully keep them warm and well tended (I checked them this morning). She doesn’t have nearly the bright blue color of the male, but she does have a special kind of elegance about her. She flies over from the [...]
Eastern Bluebirds (and babies) in our backyard!
Greetings, and welcome to our little slice of bluebird paradise! Our family’s home in Holly Springs, North Carolina looks out onto a small backyard that gets a lot of bird traffic. We have always enjoyed feeding the chickadees, titmice, wrens, cardinals, and goldfinches we saw, but our favorites were the infrequent flashes of cobalt blue…the amazingly [...]
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