Bringing back the bluebirds • Iowa Capital Dispatch

I let down the front wall of the bluebird house, the gateway to the inside of the box, and saw four eggs – three blue and one white – in the tiny nest woven from grasses. Oh, wow! The previous day there had been nothing but the nest. And now the female bluebird had slipped in without me noticing, and quickly and efficiently, laid her eggs.

We did it!…