 Homemade nest box using fence boards | With our intense spring-like weather here, decided to start to putting up nest boxes in the orchards where the old trees were removed the year before last - using a pole system this year, target birds are the resident western bluebirds and the migrating swallows that start arriving next month. |
 Home made nest box, design number two  Hopefully the birds will like these nest boxes!!! |  Two nest boxes from last year Back to back boxes in an attempt to maximize coverage for each pole (3/4 inch galvanized pipe); swallows and bluebirds require similar type boxes and will nest close to each other. Had some useable boxes from last year, but to economize, decided to build some of the boxes myself this year, there are nest box plans on the internet, and many of the store bought boxes are OK for bluebirds, but too small for the swallows, which require at least a five inch by five inch floor. |
Red-breasted sapsucker still active in Acacia tress on the property
Red-breasted sapsucker, cherryridge
Say's Phoebe, cherryridge
Resident male Kestrel, giving me the once over
 Cherryridge Kestrel |  |
Wild turkey flock adopted my back yard this winter
Two twin male turkeys still always together and often synchronized
Male Downy woodpecker in front porch tree