It’s breeding time here and I have taken a few random photographs of birds at their nest locations. I don’t actively search out nest sites but I do take a photo or two if I come across an active nest box or natural nest.
A pair of Tree Swallows at their nest box:
An Eastern Bluebird mother bring food to the nest:
This is a natural nest site that has been used by Red-bellied Woodpeckers for at least the past three seasons. The female is perched outside. Later, the male pokes his head out. Note: females have a white forehead while the red extends all the way forward in males.
I put up a nest box among the branches of a pine tree on the edge of the woods about 20 feet from my porch. My hope was to attract the Carolina Wrens that visited my feeders during the winter. When I received a good scolding from Chickadees as I was doing some work around the porch, I realized that they had moved in first. They aren’t frantic when pass by the nest area but make it clear that I should just keep moving along. I will limit my activities in their vicinity until the new birds fledge and move the box further away in the late fall when I clean it. This is one of the parents waiting to bring some food into the nest.
Birds in My Viewfinder 