Western Bluebird Nestbox Monitoring - July 18th, 2017

Western Bluebird Nestbox Monitoring - July 18th, 2017

Tuesday 2017-07-18 (mid-day): Mom and I are back from our trip, and back to checking up on "our" birds.

Box #1: The Tree Swallows have hopefully fledged; the box is now empty. We cleaned it out.

Box #2: Still empty. 

Box #3: Still empty.

Box #4: Hopefully the Western Bluebird chicks have fledged; the box is now emtpy. There was one unhatched blue egg. We cleaned out the nestbox.

Box #4. An unhatched Western Bluebird egg.

Box #5: There are still 5 Tree Swallow eggs. They probably should have hatched by now? When Jeff checked this box on August 3rd, there were still 5 unhatched eggs.

Box #5. Tree Swallow eggs.

Box #6: Still empty.

Box #7: Still empty.

Box #7.

Box #8: There are four nestlings, fully feathered. I saw one peak out of the nestbox as we approached. When Jeff checked this box on August 3rd, these chicks were found dead, unfortunately ... maybe something happened to the parents and they weren't being fed enough?

Box #8. Tree Swallow nestlings.

Box #8. Tree Swallow nestlings.

Box #9: There was one Western Bluebird egg that had not hatched. Otherwise the nest was empty; Hopefully the chicks fledged successfully. We cleaned out the nestbox.

Box #10: Still empty.

The grapes are getting bigger.