Hoping that colorful birds would inhabit the house, I was very pleased with what I saw when I returned home from college this summer. I decided to make these birds my attempt at learning how to operate a camera, and photograph these birds with my sister's camera.
I did some reading online on the Cornell Lab of Orinthology's site entitled All About Birds to find out more about these birds called Eastern Bluebird, or Sialia Sialis. The male (left) has vibrant blue head, back, wing, and tail feathers with a orange upper belly fading down to white. The female (right) has a similar pattern, but with grey feathers dispersed throughout the blue, and a duller brown/grey colored head and belly.
The Eastern Bluebird is known to be socially monogamous. The male helps to select the nesting site by repeatedly entering and exiting the box, and pacing around the top of the site. After this, the male does not do much of the work in building the nest, which is primarily fashioned by the female. As you can see below, the couple can be found near each other (right; the female's head is just poking up above the roof), and you can see the female holding nesting material in her beak (left).
I am enjoying this small creature created by our God, the great artist. You may see updates along the way! Here are a few other shots I captured while watching so far:
I really had to work for these next two, but they were fun to capture!
Photos were taken by me.
Other info was gathered from http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Eastern_Bluebird/id.
