Beautiful! Really nice shots. :)
Thank you. Those were from several days ago. I meant to post them earlier. Today I saw the babies fend for themselves for the first time. It’s a good thing, too, because Mama is back on the nest with at least 5 eggs. I’ll check again sometime when she leaves the nestbox to see if it’s still 5.
This will be a new first here. This house they chose is one they’ve never used before, and the House Sparrows have tried but I always intervened. Every time they would start building a nest in there, I would dismantle it. It’s the only nesting material I’ve ever gotten rid of. I guess they got the idea, and build their nests in the shrubs now, so this bluebird house, which I paid a lot of money for back in the day, is now being used by bluebirds! Hooray! (I think I bought that nestbox 8 years ago, and it was the first of four.)