🐣PHOEBE


March 25th – Phoebe returned even earlier with our early spring.
May 3rd – 1 egg
May 4th – 2 eggs
May 5 – 3 eggs
May 6 – 4 eggs
May 7th – five eggs - 16 days incubation = May 22 hatching
May 22 – First hatchling, fledge 15 days-ish.
June 8 – Flushed from nest! 

Brood #2 – in the same reused nest
June 18th – brood #2
 July 2nd –Hatched 


Tues., April 11 – Phoebe returned early this year. 
April 15th – I noticed action in the shed. I checked, and the nest has been started. (SHED)
Complete nest in the shed, a 2nd one under the deck. Same pair, or no?! Time will tell.
May 4 –  two eggs under the deck
May 5 – 4 eggs in the shed. 
May 8th  – 4 phoebe eggs, and one cowbird eggs in the nest. (DECK)
May 17 – the deck nest is still good. The shed nest is missing two eggs.
May 22 – still only the cowbird hatched under the deck. In the shed, one egg of the two left has hatched.
May 25  – The shed nest: the hatchling is missing, one cold egg remains. It looks as if there are 3 phoebes hatched under the deck. 
June 1 – Cowbird in phoebe nest , fledged in lilac tree, moved to another lilac tree.
Jun 9 – One gone, two fledged as I looked for them.

June 15 – three eggs in the same nest site, under the deck.
June 16  – 4 eggs, one a cowbird?
July 1st – 3/4 hatched.

SHED


Deck nest

2022

April 1st – first phoebe song!
April 4th – one outside the back door, perched in the daffy garden.
May 3rd – still reworking last year's nest!
May 7th – first egg!
May 8th – 2nd egg
May 9th – 3rd egg
May 10   – 4th egg
May 11   – 5th egg
May 28 – 4/5 hatched! They should fledge June 11.
June 12 – fledged!

2021

April 8 – phoebe appeared 🐣happy days... springtime🌂
May 4th – two eggs
May 6th – four eggs
May 7th – five eggs!
May 16th – cowbird egg =  6 eggs.
May 24th – they hatched: Blogpost: Maggie Magnolia.

June 5th – The phoebes are doing well with their brood of 6. Twas a lousy video📹, but you get the picture! They should fledge June 8 or 9th.


June 9th – still in the nest
June 10th – growing, staring at me📹
June 11 – took the girls to look at them, and they exploded from the nest! 5 hatched, plus one cowbird, and one egg did not hatch.

2020

April 27 – they seem to be trying up on the ledge, under the back deck.
May 4 – still working on it.
May 18 – 3 eggs
May 20 – 5 eggs
June 4 could be hatch day! She laid an egg a day for 5 days. 
June 5 – They hatched! 
June 12 – parents madly feeding them.
Jun 21 – They fledged!




2019

Phoebe has nested under the back deck.
June 22 – Critters! Paint roller mirror invention.

June 29th – 

July 8th


July 10 – Turtle rescue & phoebe  
Tuesday, July 16 – I spooked them and they flew off.



Today, April 28th, 2019, I spotted the beginnings of a nest in the shed!

May 13th, female on the nest. A bit chilly, so I left her alone.
Four eggs, May 15th.


The eggs are due to hatch somewhere around May 26th, to fledge around June 13th.
They hatched on May 29th. I checked them June 6th, and they were gone. I don't think they fledged. I know we have critters in the area.




2018

April 6th. Phoebe is hanging about.  
April 28 – Phoebe has chosen the shed!
June 26 – 5 fresh eggs!



2018 – Eastern Phoebe Shed

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