Fledging Day

newly fledged baby bluebird

The big news is that our baby bluebirds fledged yesterday!  This is the second batch this season for the pair of Western Bluebirds that occupy the nesting box in the Common Garden area here at Dallas Retirement Village. When I inspected the nesting box back on July 18th there were two tiny babies.  We have monitored the area daily, fearful for them because of continuing heat.  Our hopes would be boosted when occasionally we would catch a glimpse of an adult coming to the box with food, but they are so cautious and quick that there would be many days we did not see them, and then we would become convinced that the babies were dead. So it was with great joy on August 5th that we saw them flying around with their parents from one roof to the next.   
 

the bedraggled mother

the proud papa