Date: 5/6/26 4:25 am From: Alfred Maley <alfredmaley...> Subject: [NHBirds] Male Bluebird Thinks House Infested By Rivals
A mate to the female Bluebird that is incubating in a box in our back yard
believes that our house is infested with rivals, and that he must repel
every one of them, all day long. He is assisted by many bushes live and
dead trees arranged around the house as perches for flycatchers in summer
and feeder birds in winter. They allow him to rest briefly between strikes
on 14 windows on the house.
Mrs. Blue was heard to comment “Where did I find this jerk?”. But soon all
that energy can be directed to catching bugs on our “No Mow May” lawn,
unless he actually beats his brain out first.
Locally, a Sandhill cCane was photographed on May 3 in the Atkinson portion
of the nearby Sawmill Swamp, a long-expected event.
