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Photo Diary of a Western Wood Pewee Nest

JimVertebrate Control and ExclusionJune 18, 20190 Likes

Photo Diary of a Western Wood Pewee Nest

Heather Nordstrom is chronicling the development of a western wood pewee nest on her front porch.

The first photos show the nest on 20 May 2019. They had hatched on, or before, the 15th of June, 2019.

24 June 2019: The nest fell off the ledge. Heather rounded up the chicks, and put up a box to hold the nest. The mother bird continued to care for her babies.

26 June 2019: Heather went to look in their nest and that scared the chicks, and they all fluttered out and landed on her porch. She rounded them up quickly and put them in the compost bucket. They flew out a few more times before they finally settled in and stayed. She had to turn off her porch light so that they would go to sleep.

28 June 2019: Heather reported that three of the babies flew into the woodland adjacent to her house, this day, and right before nightfall she heard a scrub jay eat one, she was pretty sure. she heard the jays squawking around that area and then she heard what sounded like a baby bird squawking. she went over there but couldn’t reach anything or walk into it because the vegetation was too dense.  “Hopefully there are still two left out there. The fourth one would not leave the yard and would not get off the ground so I put it back in the nest for the night and I might just let it leave when it’s ready because the mom keeps feeding it.”

29 June 2019: Heather was out for the day, and when she got back, right before dark, “everything was quiet so I’m assuming the last one joined its family in the brush or got eaten.”

So it took about two weeks for the western wood pewees to grow up enough to fly away.

The End

Photos below.

 

20 May 2019 Western Wood Pewee

20 May 2019 Western Wood Pewee

20 May 2019 Western Wood Pewee

20 May 2019 Western Wood Pewee

20 May 2019 Western wood pewee nest

20 May 2019 Western wood pewee nest

15 June 2019 Western Wood Pewees

15 June 2019 Western Wood Pewees

16 June 2019 Western Wood Pewees

16 June 2019 Western Wood Pewees

16 June 2019 Western Wood Pewees

16 June 2019 Western Wood Pewees

17 June 2019 Western Wood Pewees

17 June 2019 Western Wood Pewees

18 June 2019 Western Wood Pewees

18 June 2019 Western Wood Pewees

18 June 2019 Western Wood Pewees

18 June 2019 Western Wood Pewees

18 June 2019 Western Wood Pewees

18 June 2019 Western Wood Pewees

24 June 2019. The nest fell off the ledge. Heather put together a new nest arrangement, placed the chicks in it, and the mother bird continued to care for her offspring.

24 June 2019. The nest fell off the ledge. Heather put together a new nest arrangement, placed the chicks in it, and the mother bird continued to care for her offspring.

24 June 2019. The rescued chicks.

24 June 2019. The rescued chicks.

24 June 2019. The new nest box.

24 June 2019. The new nest box.

26 June 2019. Western Wood Pewee chicks

26 June 2019. Western Wood Pewee chicks

26 June 2019. Western Wood Pewee chicks

26 June 2019. Western Wood Pewee chicks

26 June 2019. Western Wood Pewee chicks

26 June 2019. Western Wood Pewee chicks

27 June 2019. Western Wood Pewee chicks

27 June 2019. Western Wood Pewee chicks

27 June 2019. Western Wood Pewee chicks

27 June 2019. Western Wood Pewee chicks

27 June 2019. Western Wood Pewee chicks in 'upgraded" nest.

27 June 2019. Western Wood Pewee chicks in ‘upgraded” nest.

27 June 2019. Western Wood Pewee chicks

27 June 2019. Western Wood Pewee chicks

27 June 2019. Western Wood Pewee chicks

27 June 2019. Western Wood Pewee chicks

 

 

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