Bluebird nest hole (top left in photo) in old apple tree, lower orchard.
This is near where I found the "happy" swallows the other day - they are waiting for the blue birds to be done, so they can use this nest after them.
This is near where I found the "happy" swallows the other day - they are waiting for the blue birds to be done, so they can use this nest after them.
Female western bluebird, getting ready to fly into nest hole in apple tree (shown above and below).
Bluebird nest hole, old apple tree, lower orchard
Male of violet-green swallows pair keeping an eye on bluebird nest (and me as well)
Male western bluebird keeping an eye out, too, very close by nest tree.
Srub Jay with a cricket, probably going to a nest
Our wood pile quail, still keeping a lookout. Must be a nest.
Tree swallow Checked on lower orchard nest boxes this morning, definitely tree swallows in them.
The tree swallows were tussling with each other in the afternoon, just territorial little birds, these swallows
Tree swallows at lower orchard nest box
This is one of the boxes I set in the old orchard, where they are plowing now in preparation for new lemon trees.
On the edge of the field a few old apple trees remain, and here I put a box.
Violet-green male checking it out.
CURB APPEAL, yes - but twenty per cent down? I think not.
Male western bluebird in eucalyptus tree on way to old orchard
Did see a dark-eyed junco in the yard today, maybe not all have migrated.