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Spring activities continuing

5/6/2014

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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.

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Female western bluebird, getting ready to fly into nest hole in apple tree (shown above and below).
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Bluebird nest hole, old apple tree, lower orchard
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Male of violet-green swallows pair keeping an eye on bluebird nest (and me as well)

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Male western bluebird keeping an eye out, too, very close by nest tree.

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Srub Jay with a cricket, probably going to a nest

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Our wood pile quail, still keeping a lookout. Must be a nest.
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Checked on lower orchard nest boxes this morning, definitely tree swallows in them.

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The tree swallows were tussling with each other in the afternoon, just territorial little birds, these swallows
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Tree swallows at lower orchard nest box
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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.

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CURB APPEAL, yes - but twenty per cent down? I think not.
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Male western bluebird in eucalyptus tree on way to old orchard

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Did see a dark-eyed junco in the yard today, maybe not all have migrated.
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