1:00 AM – Retro-Sunday!! This is from two years ago, Friday, 6.30.2017.
3:17 AM – The birds in this video look like juvenile bluebirds – but not the same juveniles we’ve been watching for several months. The feathers on these show much less blue than those on the first generation of immatures. Take a look at the first generation bird at the end of the video, to compare.
This second generation hasn’t been acting like the first. The latter were usually found at the open platform feeder being fed mealworms by the parents. Of course, right now the platform feeder is not available to them, due to deck maintenance. Now, all this could be wrong. For all I know the older juveniles are just molting, losing their ‘baby feathers’, and will turn up with full blue/orange adult coloring in a few days, or weeks. There’s lots I don’t know about birds. But I’m pretty sure we’ve got a second brood now.
As a break from the bluebirds, here’s another cute Carolina Chickadee.
Now, back to the bluebirds. Here’s an adult, then one of the second gens – just to show the contrast between the fully mature and immature bird.