Busy Raising Families
This is a busy time of the year for us as well as the birds. We are busy with garden chores-cleaning up, pruning, feeding and planting. The birds are busy building their new families. The Bluebird’s eggs have hatched and the parents have been making endless trips feeding five chicks. They are growing up really fast. It will take around 15-20 days for them to fledge after hatching.
A pair of Tree Swallows have finished building their nest and started to lay eggs. The second pair was chased out of the garden by the first pair every time they checked that nest box.
While the House Wrens are still picking, choosing and building decoy nests in any empty boxes they find, two pairs of Chickadees have already laid eggs. One on each side of the yard.
Having made the destructive & nasty house sparrows unwelcome in the yard, we’ve become home to the colorful & friendly. Now the yard lights up daily in a delightful symphony.
Petals and Wings 
Best photos ever of the bird eggs. So much fun to see.
Love all your little families. Sparrows are much loved in the UK, but they can be little bullies.
They are much disliked here by people who raise native birds because the House sparrow attacks them relentlessly. For us we put birdhouses up for Eastern Bluebird, Tree Swallow and Wren so we need to monitor them closely.