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  1. Plum tuckered out

    Plum tuckered out

    Female Momma Bluebird. She looks so darn worn out. Nothing like the dad I posted yesterday. The eastern bluebird is a small North American migratory thrush found in open woodlands, farmlands, and orchards.
    • KC Foggin
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    • eastern bluebird female sialia sialis
    • Comments: 18
    • Category: North America
  2. Think he needs a Thigh Trimmer

    Think he needs a Thigh Trimmer

    Male, Eastern Bluebird The eastern bluebird is a small North American migratory thrush found in open woodlands, farmlands, and orchards. The bright-blue breeding plumage of the male, easily observed on a wire or open perch, makes this species a favorite of birders
    • KC Foggin
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    • eastern bluebird male sialia sialis
    • Comments: 15
    • Category: North America
  3. Fly By

    Fly By

    Eastern Bluebird Male bluebirds have a bright head, back, and wings. Their breast is a brownish red.[12] Females are lighter with gray on the head and back and some blue on their wings and tail. In females, the breast is usually lighter in color than in males, and is more orange. I think this...
    • KC Foggin
    • Media item
    • eastern bluebird sialia sialis
    • Comments: 15
    • Category: North America
  4. A hovering Bluebird

    A hovering Bluebird

    Eastern Bluebird hovering across my yard looking for edibles. Male Eastern Bluebirds are vivid, deep blue above and rusty or brick-red on the throat and breast. Blue in birds always depends on the light, and males often look plain gray-brown from a distance. Females are grayish above with bluish...
    • KC Foggin
    • Media item
    • eastern bluebird sialia sialis
    • Comments: 13
    • Category: North America
  5. Lots of colors

    Lots of colors

    Eastern Bluebird Perched in the blooming Mimosa Tree with the pink, lots of green and of course blue from the Bluebird Male Eastern Bluebirds are vivid, deep blue above and rusty or brick-red on the throat and breast. Blue in birds always depends on the light, and males often look plain...
    • KC Foggin
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    • eastern bluebird male sialia sialis
    • Comments: 13
    • Category: North America
  6. Eastern Bluebird

    Eastern Bluebird

    This is a male. Females are much duller. Note the sharp contrast between the chestnut flanks the white vent characteristic of the widespread nominate race "S. s. sialis". This species declined throughout most of its range because of competition from introduced European Starlings and House...
    • jmorlan
    • Media item
    • eastern bluebird ohio sialia sialis usa
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: North America
  7. Jealousy

    Jealousy

    A fledgling Eastern Bluebird looks on in disbelief as its sibling gets fed before it does.
    • RonB2
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    • eastern bluebird nikkor af-s 500mm f/5.6e pf ed vr nikon z7 ii sialia sialis tc-14e iii thrush
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: North America
  8. Bringing Home the Bugs

    Bringing Home the Bugs

    This male Eastern Bluebird brings some food to his nestlings at Starkey Wilderness Park
    • RonB2
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    • eastern bluebird nikkor af-s 500mm f/5.6e pf ed vr nikon z7 ii passeriforme passerine sialia sialis tc-14e iii turdidae
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: North America
  9. I'm finally back

    I'm finally back

    • KC Foggin
    • Media item
    • eastern bluebird sialia sialis
    • Comments: 13
    • Category: North America
  10. Eastern Bluebirds

    Eastern Bluebirds

    • Danielbirdwatcher
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    • eastern bluebird sialia sialis
    • Comments: 8
    • Category: North America
  11. One of my faves

    One of my faves

    Eastern Bluebird The Eastern Bluebird is a small thrush with a big, rounded head, large eye, plump body, and alert posture. The wings are long, but the tail and legs are fairly short. The bill is short and straight.
    • KC Foggin
    • Media item
    • eastern bluebird sialia sialis
    • Comments: 12
    • Category: North America
  12. Eastern bluebird

    Eastern bluebird

    Lots of eastern blues around
    • MergusSerrator
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    • eastern bluebird franklin twp negri-napote new jersey sialia sialis
    • Comments: 5
    • Category: North America
  13. Female Eastern Bluebird

    Female Eastern Bluebird

    Checking bluebird boxes at the park. The Tree Swallows are back, so the turf battles have begun.
    • proudpapa56
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    • 1dt eastern bluebird pennsylvania sialia sialis
    • Comments: 6
    • Category: North America
  14. BlueB

    BlueB

    That's what I call them. Eastern Bluebird (male)
    • KC Foggin
    • Media item
    • male eastern bluebird sialia sialis
    • Comments: 13
    • Category: North America
  15. Eastern Bluebird

    Eastern Bluebird

    This past year has been one of a few bird-sighting firsts for me, now with an Eastern bluebird. Lived here all my life and have just never run across one. They're primarily insect eaters but in the winter when food is scarce they feed on berries, like this little guy feasting on Christmas holly...
    • Barbie Heid
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    • backyard birds birds of new england backyard birds birds of north america birds with blue and orange bluebird common backyard birds eastern bluebird eastern bluebird (male) migratory birds sialia sialis sialia sialis eastern bluebird song birds thrush bird
    • Comments: 6
    • Category: North America
  16. Dressed for a Sunday meal

    Dressed for a Sunday meal

    Eastern Bluebird feeding the kids.
    • D. Taylor
    • Media item
    • blubird colors food sialia sialis
    • Comments: 13
    • Category: North America
  17. Difference in opinion

    Difference in opinion

    I suppose ;) Eastern Bluebirds ©Eastern Bluebirds are a brilliant royal blue on the back and head, and warm red-brown on the breast. Blue tinges in the wings and tail give the grayer females an elegant look.
    • KC Foggin
    • Media item
    • eastern bluebirds myrtle beach sc sialia sialis usa
    • Comments: 24
    • Category: North America
  18. Watching over the nest box

    Watching over the nest box

    Eastern Bluebird
    • KC Foggin
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    • eastern bluebird male myrtle beach sc sialia sialis usa
    • Comments: 19
    • Category: North America
  19. Eastern Bluebird

    Eastern Bluebird

    This distant photo is the best I got of this declining species, This is a male. Note the sharp contrast between the chestnut breast and the white belly characteristic of the widespread nominate race "S. s. sialis".
    • jmorlan
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    • eastern bluebird sialia sialis texas usa
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: North America
  20. So darn cute

    So darn cute

    Male Eastern Bluebird The oldest recorded Eastern Bluebird was at least 10 years, 6 months old. It had been banded in New York in May 1989, and was found dead in South Carolina November 1999.
    • KC Foggin
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    • eastern bluebird male myrtle beach sc sialia sialis usa
    • Comments: 22
    • Category: North America
  21. Which comes first?

    Which comes first?

    Eastern Bluebird feasting on a berry and a dragonfly lands in front of it taking it's chances ;)
    • KC Foggin
    • Media item
    • eastern bluebird myrtle beach sc sialia sialis usa
    • Comments: 14
    • Category: North America
  22. Now that's a mouthful!

    Now that's a mouthful!

    Eastern Bluebird. I'm figuring he's headed back to the next box,
    • KC Foggin
    • Media item
    • eastern bluebird male myrtle beach sc sialia sialis usa
    • Comments: 15
    • Category: North America
  23. On guard

    On guard

    Eastern Bluebird keeping watch of his birdhouse and the fledglings
    • KC Foggin
    • Media item
    • eastern bluebird male myrtle beach sc usa sialia sialis
    • Comments: 18
    • Category: North America
  24. Eastern Bluebird Mama with 3 of her Babies

    Eastern Bluebird Mama with 3 of her Babies

    Mama and 3 of her 9 babies from broods 1 & 3. An European Starling destroyed all 5 eggs of brood 2. Eastern Bluebirds.
    • lmelamed
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    • eastern bluebird juvenile/immature lake little elm tx sialia sialis
    • Comments: 6
    • Category: North America
  25. Showing his best pose

    Showing his best pose

    Eastern Male Bluebird
    • KC Foggin
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    • eastern bluebird male myrtle beach sc sialia sialis usa
    • Comments: 18
    • Category: North America
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