photos by Jonathan Schechter

Winter was rather on the whimpy side and then slow in waning in Oakland County, but the bluebirds kept telling me spring would come. For weeks I watched them perch on fence posts and flit about the meadows adding bold splashes of blue to a sometimes dreary landscape. But today, on this 27th day of April,  I inspected my bluebird boxes at the meadow's edge and made a discovery: Four pale blue eggs!

A new generation of this most beautiful of birds is on the way!