<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"> A friend from southeast Nebraska maintains 400 bluebird nestboxes and fledges 2,000 bluebirds annually. His numbers are less than 10% of that this year. Young bluebirds have been scarce, but blue jay, oriole and grosbeak fledglings entertain as they explore their new world. The day was a baby when I put peanuts in the shell into a feeder. A young blue jay had never seen such things. He tried to land on the feeder 15 times. I counted them. None involved a successful landing. He found the peanuts vexing. An adult flew in, grabbed a shell and flew away. The youngster followed suit, but not without trepidation and several fumbled goober footballs.<br><br><div dir="ltr">Al Batt </div><div dir="ltr">Hartland, MN<div><h1 class="quoteText" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px; line-height: 21px;"><br></h1></div></div><br><br><div dir="ltr">Al Batt<div><br><div><h1 class="quoteText" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-size: 17.33333396911621px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Do something wild today. Look at a bird.” — Al Batt</span></h1></div></div><div>Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/batt_allen">http://twitter.com/batt_allen</a></div><div>Podcast <a href="https://soundcloud.com/kmsu/sets/birding-with-batt">https://soundcloud.com/kmsu/sets/birding-with-batt</a></div><div>Blog <a href="http://www.albatt.com/blogs" style="font-size: 13pt;">http://www.albatt.com/blogs</a></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Podcast <a href="http://ktoe.com/2020/05/22/5-22-20-lisa-with-al-batt/">http://ktoe.com/2020/05/22/5-22-20-lisa-with-al-batt</a></span></font></div></div></body></html>