🦜Timeline & Key Events:
04/28/24 - First nest cleaned out.
05/12/24 - Second nest building begins.
05/20/24 - First egg laid. 🥚
05/21/24 - Second egg laid. 🥚🥚
05/22/24 - Third egg laid. 🥚🥚🥚
05/23/24 - Fourth egg laid. 🥚🥚🥚🥚
06/05/24 - Three eggs hatched. 🐣🐣🐣
06/06/24 - Fourth egg hatched early AM. 🐣🐣🐣🐣
06/22/24 - 11:16:15 First chick fledges. (bit.ly/Fledge1)
06/23/24 - 06:33:52 Second chick fledges.
07:18:30 Third chick fledges.
08:01:58 Fourth chick fledges.
06/24/24 - Nest cleaned out.
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🪺Our Nesting Story:
We had a house finch family fully fledge in a spot on our house in May of 2022, and that’s when our nest watch obsession began! At the time, we did not have any cameras set up, but I would take photos with my phone on a selfie stick to monitor the growth of the babies! You can see a short video of this nest here: th-cam.com/video/hZ6lmCDQEqw/w-d-xo.html
In March of 2023, our house finches returned and we set up a camera to personally observe them. Mom laid 5 eggs, but unfortunately in the middle of the night, a snake infiltrated the nest and ate all 5 eggs. Since then, I’ve been doing research on how I can make a safer area for the nest area in case they decided to come back.
Thankfully, our house finches did decide to return! We documented their first brood all on this channel, so go check out all of those videos showing nest building, egg laying, incubation, hatching of the eggs and raising the brood!
After our house finch chicks fledged, we cleaned out their old nest and were absolutely surprised when bluebirds started visiting the nest area! Bluebirds are usually cavity nesters, and seeing as our nest area isn’t necessarily a cavity, we were doubtful they’d go through with nesting here…but wow weren’t we wrong!
The bluebirds did decide to nest here and we had the amazing opportunity to livestream from nest building to babies fledging! We also have a playlist of our favorite highlights, including some pretty amazing egg drama involving another bird entirely! You can check that out here: th-cam.com/play/PLnAb40ewTYyhZNq_5EGue73ZiWNGi6TBx.html
We have now had our second successful brood of 2024 and are hoping for our third!
If you made it all the way to this point, please comment “💙💙” to show some love to our bluebird parents!