title: Wild Bird Guide: Eastern Bluebird (Wild Bird Guides)
author:  Gary Ritchison 
description: Gary Ritchison is a professor at Eastern Kentucky University. He has been published in numerous ornithological journals and is the author of Northern Cardinal. He lives in Richmond, Kentucky.
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  A Bluebird Story
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Annette Meredith
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  For my grandchildren
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  With thanks to my children
  
  
  and to Ted for their ever-patient support and advice.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Special thanks to Joe Schel ing for his assistance and for the photos of the
  Western and Mountain Bluebirds on p36.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Copyright © 2016 Annette Meredith
  
  
  Al photographs copyright © 2016 Annette Meredith Al rights reserved.
  
  
  ISBN: 1533362548
  
  
  ISBN-13: 978-1533362544
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  A Bluebird Story
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Part One - Winter
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  It’s a sunny February morning
  
  
  and the Eastern Bluebirds are
  
  
  checking out a nest box on an
  
  
  oak tree. They’ve nested here
  
  
  before and like the location – it
  
  
  faces east, and later in the year
  
  