A Drones Eye View Of The Garden

Lovely pictures of the bluebirds and great views of your garden.

What a beautiful bird! I've never seen one before.

that looks a lovely garden loosestrife. the bluebirds are really pretty too.

Lovely bird and lovely garden.

Aren't they beautiful! A great series of pictures too, and interesting information.

Lucky you....what lovely little birds.

Reminds me of a scene from Snow White, its really good to see them occupying your box L'strife and they are a lovely colour aren't they, the male looks brighter than the female..
Your garden is a haven for them, smashing blog and photo's...

ive never seen a bluebird before how lovley and i love your garden sort of like a fairy garden

I have just added a few more recent photos showing the honeysuckle in it's present bloom along with a few others.

That is a beautiful honeysuckle, Loosestrife! I bet it smells wonderful. Bluebirds and fairies in your garden - wow!

There's a reason they call them the Bluebird of Happiness!
I like to think that the awareness created by conservation societies has helped discourage the indiscriminate use of poisons in our gardens, which has further helped with the insect population resurgence (and hence the food supply of these lovely birds). I'm north of you in Canada and we're seeing fewer robins this year... Once was the time they would waken the neighbourhood with their hollering as soon as the sun came up! We once had purple martins in abundance but have seen a reduction there too... This season we're trying to raise awareness of the need for fostering Asclepias (Milk weed) for the monarch butterflies.
Love your garden and beautiful yard... May you always have the bluebirds of happiness to keep you company.

Yes Lori I have seen changes too. So far I have not seen one hummingbird since my Beebalm flowered and by now I should be seeing thousands of fireflies at night in the trees at the woods margin and up to the present time not one. All the bats are gone due to the white nose syndrome.

I have one little hummingbird who's a bit disappointed with me... I forgot to take down my feeder and it was blown down in a storm and the glass broke... I haven't replaced it yet...but the little guy sits on the wires watching the place where the feeder was. By this time in the season we usually had aerial dogfights with lots of high pitched shreeking. That's a reminder, thankyou. Sorry that you're not seeing them. We still have fireflies but not as many as in previous years. I wonder how much that has to do with neonicotinoids.
Sorry... what is white nose syndrome?

Love the bluebirds,idea of a wooden fence, soft colours,statues for starters.

White nose syndrome is a contagious lethal fungus which has killed over six million bats in North America.

oh dear... bats, birds and bees.

Beyond the wooden fence is a wooded area which is a protected watershed area. The reason for this is an artesian spring in this little forest. I use to go to the small clearing where I used to watch the water bubble up through the fine gravel in the pool but after some tree fall from a storm and due to my age I am no longer able to make a new path to get to probably the most peaceful place that I have ever been to.