The Bird is All Right

I've left this post to simmer a little while because it takes time to make a whole bluebird. You shouldn't get it all in the same week! Bluebirds stay in the nest for around 18-21 days after hatching. So we're back, checking on the "not quite right" foster bluebird baby, and things have changed.

The next time I came out to check the bluebirds, it was going to be tricky. You shouldn't open a

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Checking on the Bluebird

A sleepy bee, planning to spend the night with its face buried in red clover. One could do worse.

Phoebe and I placed the starved baby bluebird with its foster family the evening of July 17. I gave it a day and a half to settle in, then went out early in the afternoon of July 19 to check and see how things were going. I figured it would either be a lot better or dead, but either way

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A Bird in Need

I was taking a run down Dean’s Fork, with the ulterior
motive of checking a bluebird box at my friend Harvey’s man-cabin. In the spring of 2017, they’d put up
a decorative box on a little post, never thinking anything might use it, when a
bluebird pair decided it was just the thing and started hauling grass into it.
That would have been OK, but the box was only about two feet off the ground,

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Baby Season

Carolina chickadees, thinking I'm Mom.


Can it really be more than two weeks since I've posted? That's June for you, when both kids are home for the whole summer (I'm still dazed at this) and I'm conscious of treasuring every minute in their presence, because what else is there to do that is as important as that? Well, I had a big drive to Chicago in there, too,

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