Bird Watching: Reluctant Eastern Bluebird Fledges, 1 by dellrose

dellrose wrote:
Our 5 Bluebirds fledged on Wednesday 4/22!! It was a long day as they started at 9:30 AM and the last one did not leave until after 7:00 o'clock that evening. I was alerted by the parents as they did not come to get their worms at the usual time and I noticed them flying to the nest box and landing in the trees and doing a lot of chattering and wing-waving.

When the Blues fledged last year it seems that it only took about an hour and all had left the box. This group fledged at 17 days and I had thought they would wait one more day but Mom and Dad had other ideas!

Here is Dad trying to persuade the first one out of the box. Sorry for the poor quality of shots but I stayed a safe distance away and the lighting was a real pain!!