Tuesday, May 22, 2012

As you read the updates...be sure to look at the timeline of pics from pod 1! It is so cool to see how the babies are changing! House 1 The baby birds are darker than at first. Also, the babies are getting bigger and will probably have feathers sometime this week. Today we took a purple martin baby out of its nest and compared it to a chart that second grade has.

Pod #2 Strange things are happening! We now have 6 eggs in this pod! Kids are wondering if two females are laying eggs because we have had 3 eggs up until Monday when we got 2 more~ It is not following the typical pattern! House 3 Can you guess what’s in house 3? An annoying sparrow that won’t give up! We pulled out a big nest, but no egg! Pod #4-Medium sized sparrow nest with NO eggs. The diatomaceous earth powder that Mrs. Cooper used really made the bugs go away.

Pod #5- The same 6 martin eggs! Pod #6- This nest is growing pretty large! We wonder if eggs might be coming soon! Pod #7-No change. Still a purple martin nest with 4 shiny eggs.