i agree! if you saw one of the parents enter the nest box, you can be pretty sure they will take care of the babies now. good for you for helping them out!

Hi Liljanjan, I have no experience with Mountain Bluebirds, but that is a very interesting story. I think a crow could make a meal out of bluebird babies but not sure about fledglings. So you are saying by hanging up a crow near the box that deterred them? I would like to invite you to share your story and join the bluebird nut cafe and we will provide you with all you need to know about these birds. It is way more active and you will get fast answers to your questions. Hope to see you there. -Tyler http://bluebirdnutcafe.yuku.com/

Cool, so you know 3 are still out there!! I could spend all day watching the birds. We have had so many fledglings around lately...Orioles, Cardinals, Rose Breasted Grosbeaks, Chipping Sparrows, Downey Woodpeckers, Red Bellied Woodpeckers along with the not so desirable Red Wings and Grackles and of course our Blues and Dees. My seed and suet feeders (and jelly dishes) are on the opposite end of the deck from the mealworm feeder so our deck is a very busy place. I don't have an expensive camera either, I just have a old Canon S3IS which has a 12x zoom and then I have a 1.7x teleconverter added onto it to make it a longer zoom. I generally shoot in shutter priority mode so I can control the shutter speed so I can control how much light is let in. I would love love love a DSLR but I am pretty happy with what I have. I know I miss some good shots but I get some good ones too. It doesn't do very well in dim lighting though. Oh and I use photobucket to share my photos here. Upload them there and then use the html code and copy it here to share your photos. Go to photobucket.com to get started. Donna

That is funny...and kind of cute. I've not seen it before, but this is only my second year with bluebirds. Both times I did not witness them leave the nest, but knew they had because the parents would scold me as I walked along the tree line where their fledglings were presumably hiding. I'd love to see them as you described. I plan to add a water feature, hoping to lure them to it, so it will be more likely that I'll see them. Here is a link that might be useful: A Native Backyard