Sadness upon waking this morning…looked out the window, holding a cup of coffee and what do I see but the birdhouse door wide open! *Gasp*

I rushed outside in my jammies, in the pouring rain, in my socks to find the nest on the ground and the remains of damaged eggs:

Two damaged and Two survivors. Now the two surviving eggs may have been damaged in the fall but I couldn’t see any visible cracks to the egg shell. I put the nest back together in the box after drying it out a bit on a lamp/lightbulb. And, I cupped each one in my hand and warmed the egg up (bluebird eggs need to be at about 98 degrees) by covering and blowing warm air on the egg.

As I was warming them up, I noticed Bonnie hanging around. Yay! She will try to finish incubating them if they are not damaged.

Put them back in the nest:

Probably a Racoon got into the nest, from the type and style of the damage to the eggs. I put a bungie cord around the nest box to prevent the Racoon looking for a quick meal from getting into it tonight.

As a note: Bluebird eggs (and most birds and eggs) are protected by law. They are best when left to their natural habitat if at all possible.