Snake Rescue; can anyone ID this?

[ConcinusMan]

Bluebirds? Sheesh I thought they were extinct! Just googled and realize they are making a comeback.

Where on earth did you hear that? They were never even endangered. For a while they were declining fast enough to be a concern, but never got to the point of being endangered/extinct. I know he was probably talking about an eastern bluebird nest but I see western bluebirds here a lot in the summer, in the right habitats. There's tons of them. They don't show up or start nesting until July though.

I'm really surprised that the snake was even able to eat the babies being how they nest in boxes/cavities and so the parents will usually fight off a snake quite effectively if a snake tries to enter the box.

[d_virginiana]

Where on earth did you hear that? They were never even endangered. For a while they were declining fast enough to be a concern, but never got to the point of being endangered/extinct. I know he was probably talking about an eastern bluebird nest but I see western bluebirds here a lot in the summer, in the right habitats. There's tons of them. They don't show up or start nesting until July though.

I'm really surprised that the snake was even able to eat the babies being how they nest in boxes/cavities and so the parents will usually fight off a snake quite effectively if a snake tries to enter the box.

Yes, they were eastern bluebirds. They usually start nesting a bit earlier in the summer around here.
My grandparents found it crawling out of the birdhouse in the middle of the garden that had had three bluebird babies in it the day before, and he had definitely JUST eaten. The pics really don't do justice to how big this snake was though; he could barely get in and out of the house. If he had his mind set on getting in, I don't think there was anything the parents could have done.