I can’t believe how effective they are at driving away any and all competitors and threats. We’ve been watching them in a nest box in our front yard for what seems like about a month. It appears also that there are three adult participants but I have no actual proof just observational. I know they have some different parenting strategies but do not know if they clutch twice in a row in the same nest box. They successfully drive away blue jays, red squirrels, chipmunks, even hummingbirds at the trumpet vine not that close to the box. but I can’t help wondering at what cost to their own well being. They seem to never be at rest. Anyway just a few moments of bird contemplation on a Saturday morning.
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