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I go through these hot streaks with the groind traps. They seem to go for the bread or crackers like saltines, goldfish. I don’t use seeds. I keep it near the house near the trash cans. Hope you’re still getting bluebirds on the suet. Exciting.
The lighting was not the best so at first I wasnt positive…but it was the size of a bluebird…definitely not robin sized. When i enhance the contrast and saturation, the blue back really starts to come alive. I have a new Peterson box 8 feet from of that spruce. Maybe he is checking it out.
It’s been pretty warm, maybe they are just not hunkering down yet. Good luck, hope they return. I am busy back trapping. So many sparrows. Had a sharpy? hawk trying to get my trapped hosps for an hour. If I could turn this into a hawk feeder it would be perfect.
I like the way they look when lifeless out in the backyard for nightly critter feeding. Awful creatures.
My van ert has been great..but I started too late. Lesson learned. I have a cage hooked up to the inside of my shed. This guy on youtube claims 500 a year for a couple years and now he is only getting a handful.
Uggg that stinks! Dud year for my trail box too with loss of a whole clutch of ready to fledge babies to a completely random hosp attack. No tree swallow or blues in my yard this year either. Bad year for hosps…just been van erting all summer. Hope she returns Rich!!
Yeah seems too cutesy and I don’t understand the point of that diagonal piece. Sparrows ruin everything.
Van Ert caught another male yesterday! Why did I wait so long to use this? I just hope there is time for bluebirds still in PA?
Thanks, Jamie. That is encouraging. It does seem lile an impossible task, especially when people are breeding them purposely.
I have a few of these. They’re great..just screw on a standard jar of jelly upside down and the gravity does the rest. It also has little drain holes on the tray so water doesn’t collect. You have to churn it with a built in spinner every few days or so.
