Really nice shot of those eggs Nancy!! I am curious about what emerges from them too. I have a little tiny Western Sand Cherry, and I noticed the other day that is is covered in frass, and the leaves are chewed. I eventually found a little inchworm of some sort on the plant. I guess a lot of people would be mad that their plant was eaten, but I felt really happy that I had provided some food for another creature. Guess that is what makes us a little different.~~Angie

Today I found an egg in that nest! It's 2cm long (20.5 mm). According to http://www.sialis.org/eggsizes.htm it could be a Carolina wren or House sparrow. It's larger than the wren and smaller than the sparrow. While investigating, a carolina wren was screaming at me from a near by bush, and it seemed to be very upset with me for being there. It may be his nest or he could have a nest near by. I installed spooker on bluebird house that on this yard. Just in case if this is house sprarrow nest. Babies pretty big in this box. (I wrote abot 4 babies earlier, but I was wrong about quantity) I can't stay on that yard for long to make sure they accepted it because have small baby with me right now. Do you think this is a good idea or I should take it down? This is the box Janie - birds lay one egg in day, and same, as you wrote it earlier, skip a day in egg laying. She starting incubation only after she will lay her last egg. All this time eggs stay cold - up to 10 days if she skipping days and lay 5 egg. I surprised that this is new for you.

Good news you got the second egg! Ok and I could bite my tongue that I said I wanted rain. We did get some last night, not much but I would rather have done without that storm that came through WI. OMG it was awful, the winds were so strong, our yard was littered with branches this morning, lost half of a large silver maple tree, smashed a ceramic birdbath I had, knocked over and off the deck several potted plants. I went out to save one plant and I thought I was going to get either blown off the deck or that something was going to hit me. I heard something about 70mph winds. I couldn't sleep worrying about the bluebirds either and my worry was unfortunately well founded. Momma Blue was injured last night and is now only using one leg. I have no clue what is wrong with it or if it will heal or not, she is holding it up against her. She had started a new nest yeserday but hasn't resumed that at all today but she is feeding the fledgings. Not sure if they are all out there yet or not, they fledged on Wednesday. I thought I saw three of them today but I am not sure and they have now taken them to the neighbors yard. I do have two eggs now in the other Blues nestbox so I think they made it through the storm ok. Donna

Yes I can and Good point, exactly why I said it's ok to disagree and that PMrs and Bluebirders go to great lengths to protect their birds. The difference is you KNOW what bird laid the cowbird egg. Lets put it this way, you know the cowbird egg, if hatched is going to kill the host birds babies so 1 cowbird lives and 3-4-5 other babies die. That cowbird has laid many eggs in many nests we dont see ....we know this, a whole nest is not lost, that cow bird WILL have offspring. 1 egg not being allowed to hatch is much different than removing a whole nest, especially when you dont even know what bird built it. My biggest problem with this is.... a PMr should understand the challenges birds face from pesticides and loss of habitat to upity people that tear down nests because they dont want a little poop on their porch. You know as well as I do the proper thing to do would have been to ID the bird and move the nest to an appropriate place if nessary. You also know that people who know nothing about birds come in and read these posts to learn, what kind of message is Casi's post sending? I got no argument with her protecting her PMs, just with the fact she did not spend one second to try to let both nests flourish.