How cute those little fledglings are! I have two fledglings helping feed the 2nd brood in the box. In fact, that 2nd brood should fledge tomorrow.

Linda C

Kenn - Your pictures just slay me...

I love the peeping eye! Great captions!
Thanks for always sharing your photo's!

Kenn Awesome shots as usual. It's nice to hear some good news for a change.
Cathy

Ken that eye shot is great, well I'm learning new things this year, I figured the fledglings would be chased away by the momma and papa before they even laid eggs again, well I've learned different. My pair of bluebirds are working on their second brood now, the five eggs should be hatching any day now.

I don't know if I'll be able to get any eye shoots though, I can take pictures into the box, but I'll probably have to get up unto the roof to get any eye shoots like that as the nest is pretty deep into the box, and the box is too far up into the air. My gut feeling is that my floors are deeper then most on this forum, will be researching it when I go to build any more, all I know for now is they've been building nests and having babies in them for the last couple of years so I don't want to be going and changing to much in design.
Keith

I'm brand-new to this forum, but all I can say about those pictures is, 'Wow!' They are magazine-quality. Great job! I love my little Canon point-and-shoot 8MP, but it's clear that a better camera with a zoom lens is the ticket.

Thanks Chris, and welcome to the forum.

Actually, these photos were taken with with a Canon P&S 6MP S3-IS using a Sony 1.7x teleconverter. But we often shoot without the TC, and it's a great little camera with built-in zoom to just over 400mm.

And since this thread got bumped up, I'd like to post an update on our BB family. :)

Missy and Mr.B continue to feed the hatchlings who are 7 days old now:

The fledglings from the first brood still come by for worms and nuggets, but a little less often each day. And it seems their Papa is encouraging them to move on. Here are a few recent shots of them:

We hear the nestlings peeping "FeedME FeedME!" each time the parents bring a bug to the box. But I've still not tried to photograph them so we're not sure if it's 4 or 5 babies in there.

Kenn :)

Without a doubt, these are the best bluebird photos I've ever seen. Forget "magazine" quality -- these are GALLERY quality! I do hope I get to see my fledglings close enough to photograph. They are so cute at that age. They left the nest Friday, and I've seen them 'around' with the parents, but not close, and I don't see any of that vibrant blue color yet.