Welcome! First, nestboxes should never be mounted on fences, wooden posts, trees or anything else a predator can easily climb up. They should be mounted on slick metal poles (conduit) with predator baffles (wobbling stovepipe) and put up at least 15 feet away from any fence/tree or anything a predator can jump from. Your raccoon you relocated could be back anytime and or another raccoon could come by and see its happy meal sitting waiting on the fence for it. Please visit sialis.org for helpful information on properly mounting nestboxes and info on sparrow spookers/wren guards etc. If you see birds sitting with the Blues and not being chased away they are not wrens or HOSP. They are most likey House Finches which like to hang with Blues for some reason. However being you are on a farm with other farms around you probably most likely have HOSP around. A sparrow spooker will not scare the Blues away from their nesting and I would put one up asap, right after you move that box off that fence and to a safer spot about 15 feet away from the fence. Yes you can move an active nesting like this, the Blues won't abandon it because of moving it. As far as the TRES you can do the same with that box but you will need to be much more careful if there are eggs. It is really hard to see in their nests because of all the feathers but usually when it is loaded with feathers that means there are eggs in there. I just did a nestbox switch on an active Blues nesting because the momma blue laid seven eggs (which all hatched)in a smaller Gilwood style box, it has a 3 1/2" x 4 1/4" floor. I switched the nest to a larger box mounted on the same pole and had no problems with the adults accepting it. The nestlings were five days old. Good luck! Donna

Dont' be sad!!They may come to your yard to feed in a few weeks.Next year they may come back to nest in your yard.This year we had 2 families that nested in our yard.We are quite sure that they were last years off springs. michelle

I have as follows from the animal babies collection: Bat Baby Blue Bird Baby Bumblebee baby Dalmation Baby Elephant Baby Fox baby Horse baby Koala baby Lab baby Lion baby Panda baby Penguin baby Raccoon baby Reindeer baby Skunk baby Sparrow baby Tiger baby If anyone has any ones that I have not listed please e-mail me...

The neatest thing happened the other day, Hubby was leaving to go to work, he rides his bicycle, and was getting it out of the shed(which has a front door that is a sliding glass door without the door!) and a robin was sitting right there on a picnic table squaking at him, he commented how weird it was to me, so I went into the shed to see if she might have a baby in there(worried as we have a cat that lives in there), looked around couldn't see anything but the cat...so was reaching down to pick up a garden tool right at the front door...and there was a baby robin....frozen in fear!!! I put my gloves on and picked it up and put it on a branc of a bush, near where mama robin was...by this time poppa robin was there too! and boy did momma put up a fuss!!! She musta been giving that baby what for!!! I walked away and when I came back they were all gone!!! Was so neat to get that close to the baby!!!I felt so good saving it from kitty!!!