Eastern Phoebe Babies
We’ve been monitoring a nest with five small Eastern Phoebe eggs, who recently hatched!
We’ve been monitoring a nest with five small Eastern Phoebe eggs, who recently hatched!
Day 15 Of The Nestling Phase/Period.
The cowbird already fledged.
❤️
Those phoebes are on top of an unhatched egg.
His name is bonbon. I named him!
Maya is doing a good job incubating all those eggs! I don’t know how she fits on top of them all!
I discovered this Eastern Phoebe nest under our deck in an area where it won’t get rained on. The phoebes have been active on the nest since they started to lay the eggs, but only in recent days once they had laid a full clutch have they been even more protective of the nest.
2 weeks ago this nest appeared complete and had cowbird eggs in it. Last week the Phoebe built a new nest “liner” on top of the old one, burying the cowbird eggs. Today only phoebe eggs. Clever bird
Say’s Phoebe’s 14 days old from hatching and looking anxious to leave the nest. Haven’t had them long but we’ll miss them once they decide to leave, they’ve been fun to watch the last few weeks.