Blue bird living quarters

My sister-in-law and mother love watching blue birds nest in their two blue bird boxes, one in the front yard and one in the back yard. Every spring blue bird parents raise two or three sets of baby blue birds.

Recently, my brother attached a box to a beam on the back porch. Promptly, a blue bird couple moved in! They (my family) tell me that it is most unlikely for blue birds to build where humans frequent. My brother was testing the hypothesis. The photo shows the location of the house. Unfortunately, no blue birds posed for the photo, but they're there!

The quote to the right applies to my family, as well. When sparrows tried to occupy the back-yard box last year, the adults brought out the air rifle and fired shots, not at the sparrows, but around them to chase them off. The blue birds got in!