Glad you like it - I started on that site watching the barn owls (molly & magee) someone mentioned the Ga. bluebirds and I *immediately* went to check it out. They have been so funny this afternoon - each time the wind rocks the box - every little mouth opens wide expectantly!!

Looking at the camera today - they are growing fast. BUT, also spotted a LBB* busily building a nest just under the rim of the eagle's nest. It was hauling in grass. I imagine that there is an entire ecosystem in that nest, living off the scraps and the insects attracted by the scraps. *Little brown bird

Thanks for posting the link! One of my very favorite childhood memories is my Daddy lifting me up to see the hummingbird eggs and then watching the eggs become babies. We were admonished NEVER to climb up the ladder to look into the nest after that first time.

If you're seeing an unhatched egg five days after the others have hatched, it's probably a good idea to remove it. I've never had problems monitoring a chickadee nest. Sometimes the parent birds sit in a nearby tree and scold me, but that's about it. I would worry that as the babies move around more, the egg would break and foul the nest. I would wait for the female to leave the nest and carefully remove the unhatched egg.