Our First Bluebird Pair

by Mary Louise Denny
(St Louis, MO)

We had never seen a bluebird!
We had lived in an area where there were lots of large trees. Last year we moved to another part of the city where, while there were trees, our back yard was an open area with a few small trees and shrubs.

We had a bluebird house since we had tried for years to get some to come to our other house.
On a whim, placed the house on the top level of our planter at the edge of our patio.

Within a week, a bright Eastern bluebird arrived and started checking out the house. In another day, a female came and began gathering all the necessary building materials for a nest.

They worked on it for another day. He, watching, while she came and went with a beak full.
On day 3 of these wonderful visitors, all of a sudden they stopped building. They disappeared!

Who knows why, starlings around? Rent was too high? We miss them, hope they return. But now we've seen bluebirds and got a photos as well!