Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!oddjob!gargoyle!att!ihnp4!ihlpf!jimf
From: jimf@ihlpf.ATT.COM (JF)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Bluebirds
Message-ID: <4830@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Date: 23 May 88 14:42:28 GMT
Organization: Big Rock Creek
Lines: 18

Good news! The bluebirds are back nesting in one of my bluebird
boxes and some of the sparrows have moved on, maybe finally
discouraged by my ripping out their nests. The last 2 days I have seen
sparrows harass the bluebirds just once, but so far the bluebirds
seem to be winning. The female is sitting on the nest so she must
have eggs.

The kingbirds and bobolinks are back. Bobolinks sound goofy. We have
empty fields of high grass near us, and the bobolinks seem to like
that.

We have a tiny sparrow (a chipping sparrow I think) on a little nest
in an arborvitae by the front walk. She had 4 blue eggs with black
spots. Then I noticed a house sparrow egg in there too, brown and
white speckled. Then yesterday I noticed 3 of the blue eggs on the
ground, 2 of them with little peck indentations. Looks like the house
sparrow is trying to drive out the chipping sparrow. I put the one
blue egg that was intact back in the nest and the mother has returned.