Watch bluebirds go from empty nest to FIRST EGG in less than 8 mins! - Nest box live cam 2025
Happy Mother's Day! Our little bluebird Mabel has laid an egg! Here's a little montage that shows our cute little bluebirds going from an empty nest box to first egg on Maker Farm. Our Eastern Bluebird couple, Mabel and Bert, took nine days from nest box discovery to laying the first egg in April 2025.
We made our own DIY birdhouse following the Cornell Labs recommendations, and added a wifi Ring camera to record the interior of the nesting box. Watch the story of the how we built the birdhouse here: • My Slow Spring on the Farm... and the Gift...
Note that this nesting box was intended for a variety of birds who are on our farm, and we did not expect bluebirds to arrive! We would have built a bluebird-nesting box a bit differently than this.
There are more developments in this story -- stay tuned for more!!
0:00 - Day 1: Bluebirds find the nesting box
0:30 - Day 2: Bluebirds move in
1:00 - Day 3: Nest grows with grass and twigs
1:28 - Day 4: Soft bedding gets added
1:42 - Day 5: Fluffing and shaping
2:23 - Day 5: More fluffing, so much fluffing
3:13 - Day 7: Nest is looking done now
4:18 - Day 8: Is the nest ready yet?
5:44 - Day 9: The big day!
6:41 - Laying her first egg
7:04 - The big reveal: her first egg!