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Sat, Oct 4, 08 at 20:52
| started cleaning out the bluebird houses yesterday and this is the first nest i cleaned out. tragedy here.
william
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- Posted by christie_sw_mo Z6 (My Page) on Sun, Oct 5, 08 at 13:07
| awww poor thing. Don't the mama birds usually carry the dead babies away from the nest? I wonder if it was abandoned. |
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| I missed this photo earlier. How sad. The blasted starlings have now built in the Martin house. So that will be a mess. Do they nest all winter? We saw a bluebird on the power lines during our walk yesterday afternoon. |
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- Posted by sweetwm007 6 b (My Page) on Thu, Oct 9, 08 at 22:19
| we have bluebirds through the winter. william |
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- Posted by mulberryknob z6OK (My Page) on Fri, Oct 10, 08 at 21:29
| The mother was probably killed, leaving the nestlings to starve. That happened to one of my grandfather's nests once. One day while I was visiting, he asked me to check the bluebird house that he watched from his front window as he hadn't seen the mother for a day or two. I found dead babies. He had seen a neigbor's cat eyeing the house and figured it got the mother. Sad. |
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