Yea! All four phoebes fledged! One left yesterday and I saw him being fed by parents two houses away. The last three crawled back into their nest last night and then fledged this morning! I saw them being fed in various places in the yard by parents all day. That is nearly 3 months worth of yard birding from the time they started checking out my nest boxes in early April to fledging all four chicks! They are remarkable flyers compared to many newly fledged bird sp, and were easily able to fly from the ground straight up to their nest box, a distance of about 12 ft. Unfortunately, they might have a 0 to 50% survival rate out in the real world. I will hope for the best for them.
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