My friends and bird experts, Jaci Kroupa and her son, Jesse Huth, were kind enough to confirm my tentative identification of the Black-crested Titmouse in one of our nest boxes.

Here’s the photo again, taken on April 1st. I think she’s sitting on the eggs. I don’t think they had hatched yet.

Here’s a photo from last week, April 8th, showing the four hatchlings. Three were asking me desperately to feed them, but I didn’t have anything with me. The look quite young because the don’t have feathers and their eyes are not open. My guess is they are a few days old.

When we checked the nest box with the oldest bluebird hatchlings today, they were gone. I’m assuming they fledged. Next week I’ll have a sequence of photos showing their development.