We and one other site in North Carolina are the only 2 in the nation presently in the Cornell operation. Momentarily those Chickadee eggs are due to hatch, making the excitement mount. This name change will affirm that we heartily welcome all native birds to our wooden houses. To be a success, a nest must have at least one egg laid. And this one's mother is a Chickadee, now sitting on 6 eggs.
Chickadee eggs are about the size of a tiny fingernail and white, delicately flecked with brown.
Blue Bird eggs are more the size of a woman's thumbnail and handsome solid blue. Bill Blizard relocated a bird house that had become overgrown with tree cover and shrubbery, a problem for birds as predators can have too easy an access. Bill set the empty bird house near a patch of broomsedge plants. And that's what appeared in the nesting material. Chickadees usually reserve green moss and palm tree fuzz for their nesting material.