This season we have an Oak Titmouse family nesting in the birdhouse outside our bedroom.
For the past couple of years, the house has been used by Chickadees, so it’s been interesting to compare. The titmice were very quiet at first. We saw them investigating the house in early Spring, but then we didn’t see them for a while. Eventually we realized they were nesting in stealth mode, zooming in and out of the house at incredible speed, and avoiding singing near their home. Now it looks like the chicks are getting ready to fledge, and the adults are more vocal outside the nest.