Bluebird House Tips
Bluebird boxes should be mounted 4-15 feet from the ground. Wee have found a height of 5 feet to be perfect - this allows for us to easily reach the box for monitoring and nesting, plus it seems to make the bluebirds quite happy.
Face your birdhouse front away from the weather side of your yard to avoid rain angling in during storms.
Bluebird houses may be kept up year round. Bluebirds seem to always be checking for homes! In winter, birds will use houses to roost in, and bluebird parents begin the search for a nest site as early as February in southern states.
Bird houses made just for bluebirds help provide nesting sites for them is one of the surest ways to attract bluebirds to your garden. While these beautiful birds may not be interested in regular bird seed offered at feeders, they need cavity nesting sites and may be encouraged to nest in your personal wildlife refuge. Bluebirds have lost much of their natural habitat through land clearing and with the introduction of non native birds who compete for the same nesting sites, so including a bluebird box in your habitat will help conservation efforts.
Always clean out your bluebird box as soon as the babies fledge. Remove the used nest and clean out all debris, then was and scrub with warm, soapy water. Rinse thoroughly! The nest should be removed. You don’t want a pile of nest on top of nests building up. They can harbor parasites and disease. Also this pile can bring the level up to where predatory animals could reach the babies and eggs. Also if it is the first or second family the female may have started a nest somewhere else, and if another pair sees a nest there they may think the bluebird box is already occupied.
Shop for bluebird houses at at Bluebird Houses and Boxes or special bluebird feeders can be bought at Bluebird Houses and Boxes. We also carry a good selection of Mealworms and Insect Bird Food.
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