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This Morning Outside
by Diane Porter
June 21, 2010
In a birdhouse at Birdwatching Dot Com
Fairfield, Iowa
Deep in the darkness of a nest box, three eggs glow bluely. The female bluebird spent a lot of time in the nest box yesterday, peeking out the round hole. She may have already begun incubating the eggs.
Photo copyright 2010 Michael and Diane Porter
Sometimes bluebirds start incubation the day before the last egg is laid, so she may lay a fourth one today. I've never seen a three-egg clutch of eastern bluebirds before, but it does happen. I'll be checking in the box today to see if that fourth egg appears.
—Diane Porter
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