Protection from predators and proximity to food and water are a bird’s primary consideration when choosing a nesting site. If bluebirds choose to nest in your yard, you can observe them as they build nests, lay eggs and feed their young. And when it’s time for the fledglings to leave the nest, they’ll likely learn to feed at your feeders and bathe in your bird baths.
Offering water to drink and bathe is attractive to bluebirds; moving or dripping water is even more attractive. Keep the water fresh and watch them come in regularly to bathe and drink.
Serve the Meal Bluebirds primarily eat insects when available and supplement this main diet of insects with various fruits and berries. Some of the more enticing feeder foods readily eaten by bluebirds include mealworms, Jim’s Birdacious® Bark Butter® Bits, Nesting SuperBlend seed and Cylinders and of course SuperSuet!
Bluebirds will gobble up as many mealworms as you offer; especially when the young are being fed. Put some out in the morning and some in the evening and watch your bluebirds become regular visitors. The SuperSuet and Bark Butter Bits will provide extra Calcium and Fat for strong clutches. Try our Bugs & Bits as a great combination of dried mealworms and Bark Butter Bits.
Bluebird Nest Box
Open House x2 Bluebirds are secondary cavity nesters, using pre-existing cavities. They don’t excavate their own. They readily use a well-placed nest box designed for them, preferring open areas. Sometimes other birds will use a bluebird nest box, If this happens, you can install a second box. The bluebirds will use one and the other bird species will use the other.
Tufted Titmouse, Carolina Wren and Carolina Chickadee also frequently build nests in Bluebird nesting boxes.
