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Hi, I'm Dave and thanks for visiting. I garden in Zone 6b in southern Indiana, and I blog here about gardening, nature and food.
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Tag Archives: birds
Bluebird Update
Songbird babies grow up so fast! The young bluebirds are now eight days old. At this stage of development, their eyes open and their feathers start to come in. And when the nest box is opened for monitoring, they no … Continue reading
Memorial Day Bluebird Babies
Right on schedule, the bluebird eggs began hatching yesterday, 13 days after the last one was laid. The normal incubation period for bluebirds is 12-14 days. When I checked yesterday morning around 9am, there were 5 eggs in the nest … Continue reading
A Tale of Two Nests
Well, the bluebirds have been busy here the last few days. And they’ve been doing some surprising things after the raccoons trashed their first nest. Just two days later, they started building a nest in the PVC nest box situated … Continue reading
Another Bandit
Happy Acres seems to have turned into a playground for raccoons. Just five days after trapping one in the Havahart trap, and losing the bluebird babies to a predator, I found another one in the trap this morning. I was … Continue reading
Bluebirds, Take Two
It didn’t take long for the bluebirds to decide on their next move. Almost immediately after disaster struck their first nest, they started building another. I saw them eyeing this Gilbertson PVC nest box yesterday. This morning I went out … Continue reading
