Setting up housekeeping…

You definitely need to take anything I say about birds with a grain of salt. I make a lot of assumptions and then find out that I’ve got it all wrong. Several mornings in a row I noticed that by opening the blinds on the side window I’d caused a bird to fly out of the birdhouse. And I thought that that bird was the Downey woodpecker who would immediately go to the palm tree where I could and did get his picture. Not the bluebirds I’d hoped for thought, after all I’d read that the bluebirds were picky about how big the opening to their home is, for protection really, and that if you encourage them to nest in a box you’ve provided then you need to be prepared to have meal worms in your fridge for them. That was pretty much what did the trick for me and made me decide that I didn’t want them to nest in my yard quite that badly. But this little birdhouse has a history of having bluebirds in it, and although it meets none of the criteria I’ve read for bluebird houses they have nested in it before. So I’d see a single woodpecker paying attention to it, and a single bluebird hanging around also, and thought that perhaps we had an odd couple in the neighborhood. But yesterday there was much coming and going from the birdhouse, and it seems that a pair of bluebirds are at least trying to make it home. I was shooting from inside the house, between the blinds, and through a very dirty window, which I have since cleaned. I love when a photo op comes to you, so to speak. I hope this works out and we get to see them raise a family. I’ll try not to disturb them too much.Today I am better prepared to get both birds in focus in the same photo. This ability escaped me yesterday…