Blue Birds

[HermanMerman]

One of the coolest things I ever saw was years ago when I went to get the newspaper (remember those?) on a cool spring morning. There was a male bluebird perched on the wire just singing his heart out. Each time he sang I could see the tiny puffs of breath condense in the cool morning air.

I have bluebird bird houses up but it’s a battle against all the predators. Two consecutive years snakes have gotten the eggs/babies.

I had a wren with five babies in the garage this spring and caught a rat snake just as he climbed in with them. If I had been a minute later, he surely would have had his way with them. All five left the nest a couple of days later.