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I noticed the male bluebird getting more aggressive towards other birds over the course of a few days. There's a small bird feeder right behind the bird house in another yard that sparrows and other's visit. The male bluebird has been dive bombing the birds at the feeder trying to make them go away. On Friday, April 14, when I was putting out more worms, I noticed the female was watching me from the birdhouse. When I got close, she of course flew away and I decided to check out the nest. I got my little point and shoot camera out and tried to get it into the bird house since it's above my head. I took a few pictures and discovered there are 3 little blue eggs in the nest. I took a picture of the nest each morning when I put more worms in their feeder and I was happy to see 4 eggs then finally 5 eggs by April 17. Unfortunately, on the morning of April 18, their were zero eggs in the nest. I found evidence of 3 eggs broken on the ground under the nest box. There w...

Over the last week, I've seen more activity around the nest box. The little blues have been enjoying the live mealworms a lot. On one occasion, I saw the male eating out of the dish and then fly away. A few moments later the female bluebird arrived at the nest with a beak full of nesting material with the male arriving right behind her. It was clear the male was trying to feed the female but since she had a beak full of grasses, he just wound up stabbing her in the head mostly, but hey A for effort, right? But this just made her cringe away from him. She wound up dropping her nest material and ate some worms from the dish below. They just kind slurp up the worms like spaghetti noodles. Its kinda fun to watch. On another occasion, I saw this bird. A female cowbird was attempting to get into the box. I wasn't sure she could fit through the opening and she made every effort to get in. She was on top, behind, fluttering at the box opening and even going under the bottom of t...

I have lived at this address for 18 years and I've never saw a bluebird. I'm sure they've been around but I've never seen one. A few years ago, I put up a bird house and I've had chickadees and a house wren nest in the box. On March 25th, I was sitting out in the screened in porch and just glimpsed two little spots of blue fly across the yard and I happen to glance towards the birdhouse and saw a bright blue little bird and one that was a bit more grayish in color. It was a pair of bluebirds... on the fence... next to my bird house! Since I first spotted them (about a week ago now), I've observed both birds taking grasses into the birdhouse. I seem to see the male more than the female so maybe he's around keeping an eye on this prime territory. And of course, I wanted to make sure the birds stay interested in this area so I bought a little ceramic tray to hang in a small dwarf tree that's next to the birdhouse and I put live mealworms in...