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The bluebird has four pale blue eggs in the nest box near the garage. According to Lee Trott’s daily record, the two birds appeared about 10 days ago. Between the two there was much gentle-sounding discussion of the suitability of the nest box. We watched them go in and out of the box from both windows over the sink and the dining table at the eating end of our kitchen.
I often sit in the side yard, just outside the kitchen door. From there I had a good view of the female as she gathered freshly cut grass for the nest. After a good start, all nestbuilding activity mysteriously stopped for a day or so. Then she added a lining of long, dried needles from the white pines across the road. The first egg appeared and was noted in Lee TVott’s daily account of bird activities.
When not gathering nest material, the female perches on a dead lower branch of a red maple where she sits in that distinctive hunched over, round shouldered way of bluebirds. She stares at the ground, abruptly drops down, picks up an insect and flies back to her perch. Often she pounds the insect into edibility before swallowing it.
The male has not been so much in evidence. On occasion, I see a brilliant flash of blue as he flies to his regular perch on the clothes line support. From there he has a good view of his nest box and the back yard. Once a house sparrow landed on the nest box. The male bluebird flew at him so abruptly the surprised
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