just the shadow of a Bluebird

It is my longtime habit to clean out my birdhouses and ready them for the spring nesting season during  the week of my birthday in mid-February.

Our Mountain and Eastern bluebirds usually show up on or about my daughter and son-in-law's birthdays on March 8, which is not so far down the road. 
All is in order to welcome them back North, the bluebirds, that is. The kids are already north, being Minnesotans.
:o)