Two days ago a trio or quartet of bluebirds frantically flew around our house,
garage, and corral. Yesterday, they'd settled into a pair, a handsome male
Eastern Bluebird with what I assumed was a female Eastern. The Eastern sings
from perches all around the corral & house, yesterday and today.
About a half-hour ago, the Eastern male and a Western male had a knock-down,
fly-down, claws-touching set-to, right outside my office door! Noisy too.
The end result: the Western purloined the female and these two now perch on the
two boxes that the Eastern & female liked yesterday. We consulted the field
guides for female field marks, and I think that the female with the Eastern
yesterday was a female Western.
Now that he's lost his putative mate, the Eastern resumed singing from the
Chinese elms in our corral.
Ten minutes ago a pair of Westerns perched on a box (not involved in the
East/West drama) at the bottom of our driveway, and a flock of a dozen Westerns
moved through a field about 100 yards from there. And this morning a mixed
flock, mostly Mountains with 2 or 3 Westerns perched on the fence below our
corral before they moved on, apparently drifting northward. All 3 species at
the same time!
Well -- maybe a female will show up who cottons to this lovely Eastern male
with the curious warbling gurgly song. If you see one, send her our way.
Hugh Kingery
Franktown, CO
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