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HELLO WORLD! My mom called at 7AM and said we had babies. Looks like they all successfully hatched between 4:45AM (last time I checked the cam) and 7AM. Can’t wait to see them in color when that cam wakes up. More to come…

There’s a discarded eggshell at the top left corner of the image. As far as I can tell all five made it out. Keep an eye on the bluebird feeder when the mom leaves the nest…

Bluebird nest cam

Here’s some video of the parents in the nest box at the same time (briefly) feeding the babies:

10:42 AM! Just happened to be watching. She started hyperventilating and her body ballooned and contorted. I hear they lay one a day now. She should be on the nest much more too. Woohoo!

Egg #2 arrived around 10AM on the 19th

Egg #3 arrived on 4/20 at around 10:02AM

Egg #4 arrived on 4/21 at approximately 9:45AM now in color during daylight

Egg #5 arrived at around noon on the 22nd so much for my theory

(4/21) I’m guessing she’s done. Today was the first day she sat on the nest for extended periods. If my theory’s right, I’ve learned that she pretty much abandons the other eggs until the last one is laid, then she starts incubating. Makes sense: give them all a pretty even start.

Duck, she’s spotted the new color cam…

This cam is great when the lighting is good. The snapshot below is near sunset; it looks like there’s a spotlight in this dark, closed, nest box. However, it fades shortly thereafter and I have it programmed to switch to the night vision cam until the sun comes over the mountains, well after sunrise.

I was able to get sound and video recording working on it, so I’ll have some color videos w/ sound to view/download soon. It should get pretty noisy in there after they hatch.

I finally lured him close to the big cam. Now if I can draw them in a few feet closer, hopefully I can get some good, active closeups. If you look at the first picture, I’ve circled (in red) where their nest box is located. I started feeding around that and slowly moved it up the hill to the crazy feeder station. I also moved some of the other feeders away to calm things down a bit at spaghetti junction. Took most of the day to catch these, sort of like fishing!

Wow, drew them both in. It’s right near the weather station fan & cam now so I wasn’t sure if they would hit it…
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