Bonafide Farm » new forest http://bonafidefarm.com Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 09 Jun 2015 21:38:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Not long now http://bonafidefarm.com/2013/05/07/not-long-now/ http://bonafidefarm.com/2013/05/07/not-long-now/#comments Tue, 07 May 2013 15:55:27 +0000 Bonafide Farmer http://bonafidefarm.com/?p=3741 The bluebird nestlings were peeking out of the nest box entrance hole when I approached today. They’re fully feathered and there are at least four babies in the very crowded box. I hope I can get an accurate count to see if all five eggs made it to fledglings—a 100% success rate!—but at this stage the birds are easily spooked and I don’t want to scare any out of the box while its open.

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It won’t be too much longer until they fledge into this beautiful blooming spring outside their nest box. The tree with the white blooms is a hawthorne planted as part of the new forest installation.

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I’ll have to keep an eye on Tuck in the next few days to make sure he doesn’t encounter a fledgling in the grass.

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