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Where are you from Tim? I’m in North West Ohio and mine start picking out their nesting location in February or even earlier sometimes and they start building soon after that. I have a trio on a walking path and I already have eggs or nestlings in most of my boxes. I’ve been away from 2 weeks and I think some of my nestlings should fledge in a couple of days. Yours should have started earlier if you are at all south of me.
Tammy
Can you pick her up and look her over. Usually I would say that she’s getting fed by the parents so don’t worry but it sounds like something else could be wrong. She’s either not quite ready to fly or something’s wrong.
Don’t give birds water. Here’s a copy and paste why. “Mothers do not feed baby birds water because their airway is on their tongue and they can not close it when you drop water into their mouths. This means you drown them, if they dont die right away they develop pneumonia and decline quickly without antibiotics.”You have to pry the babies mouth open in the corners to get them to open to feed mealworms. Sometimes you can lightly squeeze that area but I use the tip of tweezers and lightly put it in the corner.
You can dip the mealworm in water or better yet, Pedialyte. I can give you a homemade recipe.
But if something is wrong the baby will need a rehabber.Tammy
It’s not a good plan for any native species. That depth is not good. The house sparrow will reach in and pick up babies and drop them on the ground. I know from experience. I had a regular depth nest but a shallower nest would make it easier.
And that’s hard to believe. They nest in letters on signage and those have to be shallow.Tammy
Maybe they didn’t understand where to do that. I posted after not being on for awhile and I couldn’t find it either but it’s because I forgot where to find it. It isn’t really obvious.
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Yes used imgur because of your post. ❤️
Here’s someone’s predator guard. It’s similar if not exactly what you were saying.Tammy
https://youtu.be/yzxNIKFSLBM
This link shows how to put snake netting on a purple martin pole. I’m sure you can adjust this and use it on a bluebird box. Someone on that group also devised a way of attaching it to your predator guard so I’ll try to find that and post it too.Tammy
I’ll look today and see if there’s a YouTube video you can see . It’s in a FB purple martin group so I’ll see if I can show it to you another way.
Tammy
