Well, you think you know so much …
I gave a stern lecture to the head landscape guy at an historic house in town, because their bluebird box was falling apart (split wood, door wouldn’t close, mossy nest hanging part of the way out …) explaining that if they weren’t going to monitor the box, they should take it down. He was very polite, agreed with me … and then left it up.
Was I ever surprised when, on a recent walk there, I opened the box and saw baby birds! I sat on a rock to see who might be living there … and a bluebird lands on top! Thanks to the extremely dry weather here, the box has done okay. I offered to install a baffle, a spook, etc., but they insisted on doing it the “natural” way. I sure hope they make it! As of today, mom was feeding them.
P.S. What they don’t know is that I found a sparrow nest with eggs in the box a few weeks ago … and removed it. So they think they’ve done it all “natural,” but there was a little bluebird fairy who helped things along …