In 2012, the bluebirds were displaced of their feeding ground by phoebes. The phoebes are of similar size but much more efficient 'on the wing' bug catchers because they have an ability to hover briefly and change direction mid-air. Not as vocal as bluebirds that have soft conversant tones. Phoebes here are gray with cream breast/bellies. One pair did two full nesting with broods of 4 and 3 from a messy nest on a nook of the porch roof (a well covered but very narrow ledge). The chicks seemed to fledge faster than bluebird chicks and the chicks stayed together and called to attract the parents. Of that second brood, only one fell out to doom on the brick steps below and it was probably only a few days to a week old. (now I have to go with the hose sprayer and get the nest cleaned out) Phoebes are interesting to watch but the bluebirds will be back in fall/winter/early spring.

How wonderful. Congratulations. There is nothing like knowing you are helping bring more Blues into the world.

Hiyah, I know we have quite a few folks from GA here. I hate to make a list cause I know I'll miss someone so apologies in advance (I put quotes ' ' around screen names): Me: NW Georgia (Acworth) Genie Guthrie: Suwanee Rebecca: Suwanee (I think) ** I think we have some more folks from Suwanee Cindy ('garmom'): south of Atlanta airport Janie 'josieoh-05': NE Georgia Tara: 15 miles NE Atlanta 'leslie-ann': Snellville 'hursetowhee': here's something I posted last year that may be of use to us: These regional office phone numbers are from www.georgiawildlife.org: 1- Armuchee (706) 295-6041 2 - Gainesville (770) 535-5700 3 - Thomson (706) 595-4222 3 - Augusta (706) 667-4672 3 - Social Circle (770) 918-6416 4 - Fort Valley (478) 825-6354 5 - Albany (229) 430-4254 6 - Fitzgerald (229) 426-5267 7 - Brunswick (912) 262-3173 Bluebird blessings, Linda...

Six nestlings Donna. Wow that's really cool. They are lucky to have you to supplement their young. What I found surprising is that in past years when the weather was very cold during brooding they ended up with blow fly larva in the nest. This year the weather was warm and sunny (up until fledge day) and there was no sign whatsoever of a single blowfly larva when I removed the old nest.