We Have Bluebird Tenants!
Really, it’s quite ridiculous how excited we’ve been today…oh joyful day!! I think the kids and I are as excited today as we were when we bought our own home. We have bluebirds in our new nestbox!!! I wasn’t sure if it would actually happen this year or not, many times it takes a couple of years to get them. We just put the nestbox up on March 2nd, and we already have “takers”. A female and male Eastern Bluebird have been working today bringing nesting materials to their new residence. Almost everytime I look out towards our backyard I see a flitter of neon blue fly across my view. They are truly beautiful birds. I’ve taken some photos, but of course I had to max the zoom on my camera so they aren’t of the greatest quality.
This is the male peering inside the nest box entry hole.
In this one you can see the male and female; one is at the entrance, and one is on the branch above it.
“Everyone loves the bluebird. It is because he is so gentle, modest, brave, and useful. He is called the color-bearer of the spring songsters, the banner-bearer of Birdland, the minstrel of April, and Mabel Osgood Wright says he is a model citizen.”
- from Type Lessons for Primary Teachers by Anna E. McGovern
The Blue Bird
Listen a moment, I pray you; what was that sound that I heard?
Wind in the budding branches, the ripple of brooks, or a bird?
Hear it again above us, and see a flutter of wings!
The blue bird knows it is April, and soars toward the sun and sings.
Never the song of the robin could make my heart so glad;
When I hear the blue bird singing in spring, I forget to be sad.
Hear it, a ripple of music, sunshine changed into song!
It sets me thinking of summer when the days and their dreams are long.
Winged lute that we call a blue bird, you blend in a silver strain,
The sound of the laughing water, the patter of spring’s sweet rain.
The voice of the winds, the sunshine, and fragrance of blossoming things,
Ah! You are an April poem, that God has dowered with wings!
- Eben Eugene Rexford
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