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Congratulations Matt and welcome to the forum. This is the first photo that I have seen with 6 bluebird eggs. My 5 just started incubation today. I am going to add you to my spreadsheet for nesting totals. Where are you located? Be sure to keep us posted on your progress and let us know if you have any questions or thoughts about the bluebird activity here. There are a lot of good people here a lot of knowledge to share.
David
Stafford, VACarol is right about the deterrence they offer to climbing predators. This is the one that I have for my nestbox. It is a 24″ x 6″ metal stove pipe mounted about 4 & 1/2′ above the ground. The pipe is 1 & 1/2″ PVC and I cut a hole in the top of the stove pipe cap to fit over to top. I also included a snake trap at the top of the stove pipe made out of several layers 1/4″ hardware cloth with smaller bits of that wire with the metal wires bent down to stab an intruder. A also grease the pole with lithium grease to keep ants and other creatures away. The baffle wobbles on two 2 1/2″ screws.
David
Stafford, VAThanks Judy. Yes It looks like it is going to be a pretty good year for the Bluebirds. The third egg happened about an hour ago. I looked in the box when I put the mealworms out around 8:30 and there were still only 2 in the nest.
David
Stafford, VASecond egg some time this afternoon
It has really been quiet around the bird house and feeder area for the past day or so. Possibly because I took the feeders down to clean them yesterday and didn’t get them back up until an hour ago.
David
Stafford, VACongratulations Carol. I started a little spreadsheet to track our eggs and hatches. So far I have a possible 25 new blues to fledge from those that have posted around May 11-16. I will add others as they appear here.
You are right – hoping for good news this year.David
Stafford, VAThanks Carol – but I do not need any house sparrows around here. Our wren count seems to be down also.
David
Stafford, VAI still have a few juncos but not many sparrows at the feeders. I have not seen a house sparrow (male or female) in almost 2 years. None of the other birds have gone to the mealworm feeder. The bluebirds guard it closely. I do have a lot of gold finches and some house finches at the finch feeder. My wife counted 18 at one time trying to use the Nyger seed feeder.
David
Stafford, VAGood news. I am glad to hear that your blues have returned. We seem to have several nests either completed or close to it. It is going to hopefully be a good year for us.
David
Stafford, VA
It is still cool here in Virginia but seems to be warming up in the next few weeks. Does imjur have an option to send your “code” via email or landline telephone call?
