Description

I am a Bluebird nest box monitor and my husband makes the nest boxes for our trails. We decided to put up a nest box in our yard. One day we saw an adult male Eastern Bluebird and we bought some live mealworms to try and attract him to stay. It worked and soon we had a pair of bluebirds with a nest in our box. We bought more mealworms and got to watch the adults busy feeding the chicks. When the young fledged we got to see the parents feeding the beautiful young birds and we saw the babies work out how to feed themselves. They couldn’t get enough of those mealworms and we ended up getting through over 12,000 as they had a second brood. My husband made a wooden dish and stuck a stick in the ground next to it so that I could get natural looking photographs of the birds as they landed on the stick before getting the food. It was a truly wonderful experience which I will never forget. I hope that they come back next year. I really miss my bluebirds.

Category

Category 1: Birds with Food or at the Feeder

Species

• Eastern Bluebird