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Posted by karen_b (My Page) on Fri, Dec 25, 09 at 1:54
| Since we moved to PA I've not been able to attract bluebirds to our mountain retreat, aka our home in the woods. Though I've seen bluebirds in a cemetery up the road. I have bluebird nests (tried & true from our last house) all over, water and suet, we had over 30 trees cut down around the house for more open space (mostly to keep the carpenter ants away from the house), and I planted numerous berry producing shrubs which all produced a large quantity of berries this year for the first time.
Until this past Saturday during a snow storm when during the Christmas bird count I noticed what I thought at first was a titmouse until I got my binoculars out and looked closely. Only to see for the first time in 7 years a female bluebird in "my" back yard. Needless to say everyone in the house knew it and so did everyone on my facebook page. She didn't stay around long, just long enough to check out the offerings. But I knew my backyard was forever imprinted in her brain. My husband joked that she showed up a week too early, he had ordered the bluebirds for my Christmas present. You have to love a husband like this don't you?
Christmas eve, after a lousy day at work and a couple of hours of Christmas shopping, what do you think greeted me in one of those berry laden shrubs right off the deck but a female bluebird. If I don't have any presents under the tree it doesn't matter I've had the best Christmas present ever.
Merry Christmas everyone! |
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| Great story Karen. Congratulations! I am so happy for you. Sounds like it may be the start of something good. Merry Christmas! Dave 
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| Merry Christmas Karen. And yes, we will all understand your joy in seeing our beloved bluebirds. They sure make u smile after a lousy day don't they? :) Karen |
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Merry Christmas to you all and congratulations on your bluebird sightings, Karen. May your 2010 be filled with bluebirds!
Kathy |
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| I am so happy for you! Who else but a true Bluebird lover would be checking on a Bluebird forum on Christmas morning. I also got my Christmas gift. The Bluebirds showed up yesterday, and there were eight of them here this morning. What a joy! |
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Thanks for the wonderful Xmas gift from Dave (pic) on these long cold snow covered winter days we long to see our blue friends. I can only hope they are
holding up in a nice warm pine tree or cedar tree. My true xmas gift is when
open nest box's and find four to five little chicks looking up at me. No other
feeling in the world could compare. With no children of my own my birds
fill a nice void for a person full of compassion. Merry Christmas and Happy
New Year to everyone.
Ray
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| Merry Christmas and congratulations. What a wonderful gift! Though not at Christmas, when I first saw the blues checking out a nestbox for the first time in our new home, you'd have thought I'd won the lottery! It's very exciting and I hope they continue to blees you with their presence. Donna |
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You're absolutely right about nestbox monitoring, Ray. It feels like Christmas each and every time I open a nestbox--I never know what I'm going to find . . . the beginning of a nest, that first egg, brand new hatchlings or those beautiful babies hunched down pretending to be invisible, it's always a thrill.
Kathy |
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