And I couldn’t be happier!
I bet you all are wondering how I could be happy about having the blues around, but my blues aren’t emotional. The blues I am talking about have feathers.
Two years ago we had the first nesting pair of bluebirds in our yard. Charlie made a couple of houses and platform feeders the previous year, but all we attracted that year was a pair of bachelor males. We are hoping this year will be another successful breeding for our bluebirds.
A couple of weeks ago we started to see bluebirds regularly checking out our nest boxes. With this very mild winter they had arrived a few weeks earlier than normal. We decided to make them feel as welcome as possible so Charlie put up the mealworm feeders and filled them up with our dried mealworms.
In the past we have also used live mealworms, but we found that the birds are attracted to the dried ones just as much. We buy them in bulk over the internet which saves a lot of money.
These feeders attract many species of birds especially chickadees. We also see Titmice, Cardinals, Nuthatches, and eventually when they get here Catbirds.
In addition to the two platform feeders we also have this house type feeder. The holes on each end are large enough that the bluebirds can easily get in, but it keeps many other birds out. The chickadees and titmice are the only other birds to use that feeder.
We are excited that so far we have a small group of three male and two female bluebirds hanging around the yard.
It appears that two of the bluebirds are possibly a nesting pair as we have regularly seen them inspecting the nearby nest box.
Last year’s couple raised three broods and we are hopeful that this year will be just as successful!
Amen to that case of the blues!! Oh my stars I just love those birds…such a beautiful shade of blue. I’d love to have a blouse with that shade of blue and a tad of the brown.
One thing I’ve learned over the years is Mrs. BB is hard to please. I’ve had hours of entertainment watching him carefully build the nest for days. Then he gets on top of the house to proclaim it finished. He makes sure she sees the bird feeders, bird bath close by. He assures her the hedges will provide proper cover. Then he beckons for his lady fair to visit the mansion he built just for her. She flits around it, dives in and out tweets this and that all the while he is on top with his brown chest feathers all puffed out.
GREAT POST.
Hugs Madi and Mom
We love bluebirds here. Boy y’all got some good pictures of them. We have a few flitting around our place but Mommy hasn’t been fast enough with the camera to snag a picture of one. We also has some pretty cardinals, we love their bright red color.
We rarely see a bluebird around here – but they sure are pretty. We hope you get that nesting. Blue is Mom’s favorite color and she thinks the blue of the bluebird is the prettiest of all.
Woos – Phantom, Thunder, Ciara, and Lightning
Ahhhhhhh…them bluebirds are so gawjuss and I hears they bring good luck too. Well except birdies don’t likes me …they always poop on me outside…sigh.
But I still thinks it would be awesome to sees a bunch of baby birdies cuz Blue birds be so purty.
Puddles
We LOVE blue birds on my hill too. We have Gourds hanging fur them to nest in… butt the silly sparrows keep takin them over and running the Blue Birds away.
Love the pics of the birdies! We have many different kinds in Zone 3! They are AWESOME!
Oh, those birdies are SO pretty! I hope they raise lots and lots of pretty babies in your nesting box.
Wiggles & Wags,
Mayzie
LOVE the pix of your bluebirds!!! We have some here, too, and I just love to watch them!
KZK
Awesome photo of the birds! They are so fun to watch too!
Great pictures! Mom and I love birds, but don’t have many because of kitty sister
Dachshund Nola
Oh I hope they nest near so you can get a lot of pictures of the babies as they grow. Those are really great pictures of them
I never see bluebirds here, but I am excited to see lots of robins and few pretty newcomers that I don’t recognize. I hope you have some baby birds to watch soon!
Oh you are so lucky! The sweet blue birds! We do not have those bird, but we wish we did.
What nice homes they have. I think they love your yard,, and so it makes for happy birdies. Soon, I bet there will be some eggs, and then bitty birdies!
love
tweedles
We love when the hummingbirds come to our porch feeder in the spring. Last year they were so interested in me they would fly right up to me face. Lee would put out her hand and they would sit on her finger.
Sweet William The Scot
We just moved from the city to the suburbs and now see lots of birds. We don’t have any bird feeders yet, but are thinking of putting some up this weekend. I am going to take notes from your post – I would love to see Bluebirds in our yard.
that is such a wonderful idea about the dried worms mommish will surely look ino this. we love to have all kinds of feeders and houses for the birdies and we cant wait until our pibble house is built so we can welcome the birdies back
their singing always makes our mommish smile.
pibble sugars
the pittie pack
Oh my goodness, I always thought the bluebirds featured in storybooks were made up…never realised they really were such beautiful colours!! 😛
Hsin-Yi (& Honey the Great Dane)
What pretty little birds. Momma is filled with envy as she has attracted the golden finches but mostly just plain old brown birds. Boo hoo. Hey! Brown birds get hungry too.
Slobbers,
Mango
WOW!!!! Our Mom is so envious of you, we can’t have a bird feeder as our favourite game is chasing birds out of the garden bol!!! Dex and Lou xxx
We love the bluebirds too. We live out in the country and we have quite a few houses put up. We saw a few bluebirds the other day, so they are back for the season. They love to eat those icky lime green worms! It’s fun to watch the parents feed the babies.
Wirey Hugs, Purrz & Licks,
Katie, Sparky, Ruby, Sylvester, Scuby, Hootie & Zeek
How pretty! The only kind of birds we get are those big black birds. My Grandpa used to love watching all the birds.