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.
Blue Birds typically are very fussy in choosing pine straw. By the way, if you have a bird house that has become overgrown with plant material, and the box is empty, move it to more open territory. Try not to trim vegetation as our island is in need of natural plant material. It's good for bird shelter on those biting winter nights we might possibly recall. If you think you would like to serve as a Bird House worker or purchase a bird house for your own yard, call Dale for details at 768-9321.