Bluebirds are hatched!

Both boxes #2 and #3 are hatched!  Box #2 has four tiny bald babies and #3 has two.  It looks like they may have hatched either today or yesterday.  Box #1 has been taken over by House Sparrows.  I have removed the nest several times.  I guess they ran the tree swallows off.

Good News...

Well a few days ago, I made the rounds of the three nest boxes.  I had removed the dead bluebirds from the first box, but left the nest intact.  Today, this one had some fresh dried grass lining the old nest.  Very good!  Even better, was that the two others also had what looked like bluebird nests!  These are the two that the English House Sparrows had been trying to build their nests in.  I wasn't about to let them though.  I kept removing the nests before they were ever finished.  Finally, I think they just gave up and went away.

So now all three have nests in them.  No eggs on that day.  Today, I was surprized to find three bluebird eggs each in boxes two and three!  Box number one, though seems to have been claimed by a pair of tree swallows as it had several large feathers in the nest.  These look like they might be turkey feathers that were left outside from the turkey that DH shot fourth season.  It was his first turkey ever and Boy, was it delish!  Turkey Fricasse for dinner that night and enough put into the freezer for another ten or twelve meals for the two of us!  But that is another story.