On a fine Monday morning in May, a bluebird lays her first egg. She produces another one the next day, another on Wednesday and her fourth and last blue egg is added to her nest on Thursday. Nearly ...

It could be that bluebirds are better off when their first hatch comes later in the spring. Well, possibly, but I have a feeling these little birds always are riding the edge of survival. The question ...

"When do bluebirds nest, and how many times can bluebirds nest in one year? I have one bluebird house that is being used for the third time this year. The first brood had six eggs and the second nest ...

Spring migration is over. It’s now prime nesting time for Georgia’s songbirds, most of which are incubating eggs or tending babies. Several year-round birds — bluebirds, cardinals, Carolina chickadees ...

Observant biologists have long known that among such game birds as quail, partridge, pheasant and grouse, all the eggs in a nest tend to hatch at about the same time—even though they were laid several ...

We now have babies in the backyard! Bluebird babies, that is. In late April, my wife Cindy and I found three bluebird eggs in our backyard box. This discovery followed a more than 20-year drought of ...