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[CSolis]

@CSolis any sign of Baby Jay?

Well I heard the same jay call from a distant patch of trees I heard a call from while Baby Jay was on the deck with us. But no sign of him. Not once has he come to visit while I've been out feeding the kids as was his custom.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Been busy here made a apple pie washed all the dishes dryed put them away now headed to do coops

 

[microchick]

I would rather think that there is a dominate male Blue Jay around that has told him to bug off and find his own territory rather than think the worse.

We all know that is the way of the bird world. It's not always fair but it's the way they do things.

 

[microchick]

We have a pair of barn swallows in our barn that are working on their second clutch of eggs. the chicks from the first hatch are hanging around. Three of them along with mom and dad come out every night when my husband goes out to fly one of his RC planes and zoom around with his plane. I would think if he was flying lower they would be looking for bugs he might be scaring up from the pasture grass but he's flying at about 300 feet and they are right up there zooming around with him like it's a game.

We usually have Vultures that come out and fly with him but none this year. I see one or two flying around but nobody comes out to soar with his planes this year.

Strange season all around and I wonder if the late spring has anything to do with it.

 

[pennyJo1960]

We had put up a bat house before the roof was replaced I wonder how I would know if there are bats in now, We did start to see some at night flying around lately

 

[bruceha2000]

We have a pair of barn swallows in our barn that are working on their second clutch of eggs.

I've never had any do more than the one clutch. They are all hanging around though. I love hearing them chattering.

 

[microchick]

I thought so too but this morning we were in the barn and the youngsters were zipping in and out along with the parents. One of them flew up to their nest and the other set on a little clothes line I have out there near where they have their nest. Just assumed it was the hen and rooster with the rooster standing guard. The youngsters didn't come near them.

The robins are gone from here now but the barn swallows seem to hang around a bit longer than some of the other birds.

We are quite a bit further south than you are which may influence things with them.

 

[Alaskan]

We had put up a bat house before the roof was replaced I wonder how I would know if there are bats in now, We did start to see some at night flying around lately

If bats are using the box, there will be poop on the ground under the box.

 

[microchick]

We have bats here but they are those little brown guys. We have an attic access in the shop. One night the wind was high and actually moved the plywood that the previous owner used to cover the access. I went out with a flashlight to get firewood (a few years before we put in electricity) and this little bat comes zooming down, drawn to the light from the flashlight and I spent a good 5 minutes just tracking the flashlight around with it following the light. I finally turned off the light and it zipped back up into the attic and I got the plywood covering back in place.

May not have bats in the belfry but we definitely have them in the attic.

 

[ronott1]

Bats up north usually migrate in the winter.

Penny should see them now but not in the winter. Missouri they may or may not hibernate\migrate.

The pest control person told us to seal up the spaces at the eves that the bats were getting into the walls from in the winter or else we would have dead bat smell as well as guano