It helps me to say these things aloud, I think.
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I think the birds are about 6-7 days old now. They have a natural “gaping” response whenever someone enters the birdhouse, so that means we get good pictures. 🙂
I think this is some rogue worm that Momma bird brought in and wasn’t eaten. Momma bird took care of it.
Momma bird feeds the babies.
Poppa bird pauses in getting a mealworm to see who’s watching him.
Here is a great explanation of what you can expect to see as the chicks develop – very cool! On Sunday night, Mom and Gene came over for chili dinner with Dave and his dad. Here we are, five grown adults, obsessively watching “Bird TV” after dinner.
The baby chicks are doing well. 
Dave’s Dad arrived on Saturday afternoon, and we put him right to work when he got here!
We had a rather big project but it went fairly smoothly. We started around 4 and finished up around 6:30 PM.
We have a fairly extensive bird feeder system out back of our house, and the azalea bushes below the feeders were getting covered in bird poop. We also had some of the bird seed spouting in the mulch under the bushes which we always had to pull out by hand. It was annoying and didn’t look very good, so we decided to relocate the azalea bushes to a different part of the bed.
Here’s what they look like in their new location:
We had to take several breaks during the transplanting process so that the bluebird mommy and daddy could come back to the bluebird house and feed the babies.
After we moved the azalea bushes, we filled in the holes where they were and covered the area with gravel. We’re hoping the multicolored gravel will hide the bird poop better and prevent the seeds from being able to germinate. 
Later this week, we’re going to get more mulch and pretty it up a bit so it doesn’t look so severe.
They are really ugly, aren’t they?
Check out the eyebrows on Umit…
More updates as they happen!
Wow, she’s really going at it!! I’m going to take this as a compliment that we keep our birds really well fed.
On Friday we discovered the fourth egg, Umit.
Saturday morning at 8 AM we discovered Zowie (no picture) and Saturday at 10 AM there was one more, Broccoli. Six total!
Momma bird giving a look.
On Tuesday after work, we had two eggs. Meet Carl.
On Wednesday night we had three eggs. Meet Valerie.
I think that the bluebird will lay an egg a day for 3-5 days until she has her entire clutch, then she’ll start incubating them. This is so cool! Dave named the first egg “Eggbert,” naturally.
So flippin’ cool.
Here’s momma bird peeking her head out of her house. 
Chillin’ on the couch, watching the birds. 
You can’t imagine how heavy this sucker is, really. We hung it on the front porch because we were worried about wind in the backyard. Now, we just need some hummers to show up!
