Six Eastern Bluebirds must have sensed the approaching cold snowy weather that hit NW Ohio after midnight!  While eating dinner last evening around 5:30 p.m., we observed 6 bluebirds flying back and forth from a maple tree to an elm tree and occasionally drinking from the nearby heated birdbath.  By 6:00 p.m., 5 of these birds had entered a nest box that we keep up all winter for shelter and around 6:30 the sixth bluebird entered the nest box.  At 8:00 am this morning, we observed the gradual departure of 5 birds.  #6 must have departed earlier.
We witnessed this same situation last winter for several weeks involving 7 bluebirds.  For several years, they came each evening around the same time and left in the morning.

Lois and Vic Harder
NW Ohio - Ottawa County

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