Hi Marge, As this has been up a bit, I wasn’t sure if you’d identified him but I found this, which says that the one pictured is probably a hatch year male, and he does look just like yours, although I know there are many points that can shift and ID from one variant to another. This is a gorgeous bird! http://www.theguardian.com/science/punctuated-equilibrium/2011/oct/27/4
MJ Springett 
Hi Marge, As this has been up a bit, I wasn’t sure if you’d identified him but I found this, which says that the one pictured is probably a hatch year male, and he does look just like yours, although I know there are many points that can shift and ID from one variant to another. This is a gorgeous bird! http://www.theguardian.com/science/punctuated-equilibrium/2011/oct/27/4
thanks for the effort, i think that the experts decided this was a bluebird, eastern or western was not decided,