Bluebirds Fledged

I had not been posting on the bluebird babies in the two boxes, but have been checking on them every couple of days for the last couple of weeks.  Today I checked on them expecting them to be fledged or very close.  Sure enough both nests of babies have fledged within the last couple of days!  I am so glad that they survived this time...no problems whatsoever!  Four fledged from the #2 box and two fledged from the #3 box. 

Goose is Broody

Yesterday our goose 'Mo' decided to begin to set on her eggs.  She began laying almost on the first day of Spring and I only collected the eggs for a couple of weeks.  So the oldest of these eggs are from around the second week of April.  I read somewhere that in eggs older than seven days the fertility begins to go down.  This goose has never successfully hatched out a brood and she is about five years old.  There could be any number of problems from the eggs not being turned enough, lack of humidity, too old, etc.

For a goose, the egg incubation period is 29 to 31 days.  So if she is successful this year, we can expect the goslings to pip between July 2nd to the 4th.  Talk about Independence Day!