Sad but Happy Day

So I came home from work day and thought 'you know what I didn't see the bluebirds yesterday' and looked around and they weren't here today either. Hmmm, I wait a little bit and nope NO BLUEBIRDS! Time to break my 'once a week look in the house' rule and sure enough it's empty.

Sadness overcomes me but all evidence shows that they left the house on their own so I'm really really happy about that but I was hoping to see the moment when they left the nest and get some good pictures and officially get a head count. But I guess I'm left with sharing the last picture I got of the little guys which was taken three days ago. I never could get a good picture of them because they would sort of hide as you can tell.

Anyway, I wonder where they are and wish them all the best and hope they call my place home for a long, long time. Their house is cleaned out and waiting in case mom and dad want to start another nest so here's to a great future filled with bluebirds!

Picture and quick story

This post is really just for the picture. Of course the subject is my bluebirds. This time was the other evening with a beautiful sunset in the background. Of course they wouldn't pose where I really wanted them but their normal wire sitting worked out okay.

On the bird front, I did see the first Baltimore Oriole I've seen in a long long time today what makes it great it that it was at a friend's house and he saw it across their two acre yard. My love for birds is catching a little bit. Of course, I didn't have my camera but honestly I never got close enough to get a picture but we did see it a few times. I will be taking my camera to their house this weekend in hopes of a return visit of the orange delight.

Get out of here! No, you get out of here!!!

Okay I wasn't happy years ago when they moved trashy trailers in across the street from me and really not happy when the one was raided for a meth lab but who would have known an abandoned trailer would be so amusing.

This past weekend I was out side and heard a crow going nuts. This isn't too strange but this one just wouldn't stop screaming. So I walked to the front of the house and saw him across the street at the 'meth' trailer fighting with another crow. I thought 'Oh, so that's the problem' and went back in the house. On my next venture out I still heard him and thought it should have ended by now. Upon walking back out front and looking that's when I notice it WASN'T another bird he was fighting with, it was himself in a mirror. Too funny!

I'm not sure how long it took him to figure it out but I'm really happy that whoever cleaned out the trailer put that mirror there. Sorry it's not a better picture but it be honest I didn't want to be sen taking a picture of a seized meth lab. LOL

I'm feeling mighty blue

I know it's an unwritten rule that you are not to show favorites when it's come to family, but I can't help it - my bluebirds are by far my favorites. It's been an amazing spring to have the bluebirds show up early, start to build, leave and then come back to build on the deck where I can watch them up close a personal all day everyday! The youngster hatched about one week ago and mom and dad are busy feeding them all. I believe there are five in there but really hard to count at this point.

I finally got up the nerve to open the house and try to get a picture of them but the door doesn't leave me many option of angles so the above is the best I can do right now. Anyway, hope you enjoy the images and look for more updates.

Out of their own

The yard is full of feathered friends - some hanging out at the feeders and some hanging in the grass. Some are very busy gathering food and making numerous trip to their nests and some are just out sitting trying to take it all in - those are the newest additions to the bird world. Watching the youngsters can be quite fun. They're not sure when to fly and when to stay where they are. Mom is still feeding them yet they have freedom. I have the great honor of watching them figure out what the reality of freedom is and I'm going to enjoy it all summer.