........OUR SECOND BLOGGIVERSARY.......

Click on photo to enlarge - © 2007 jim otterstrom

Our unusually mild spring-like weather is bringing out throngs of house-hunters of the feathered kind. There's a Pygmy Nuthatch inspecting the interior of this house while the male Western Bluebird tries to intimidate him into going elsewhere.

Pygmy Nuthatches just aren't that easily intimidated, they may be tiny but they're very persistent.

I built the little house for either Nuthatches or Chickadees and it has been successfully used for the past four years or so to fledge several generations of little Pygmy Nuthatches, sometimes two fledgings a season.

The Western Bluebirds did run our Violet-Green Swallows off last year, so I'm going to move a Bluebird house to another location, further away from the gourd-house the Swallows have used for over a decade.

Two years of blogging!

What have I learned?

For one thing, I've learned you can spend entirely too much time blogging!

More on that later...