Here is a website that is all about bluebirds and maintaining their nest
boxes. I hope that you can find something helpful here. I know how
heartbreaking it is to have your bluebird nest fail!
Juli
On Tue, Apr 8, 2025, 12:55 PM 'Candy Pfau' via NFLbirds <
<nflbirds...> wrote:
> This is non related. Sorry, I don’t quite understand where to ask
> questions. Last year something
> Kept destroying my bluebird house. I waited a season. This year put up
> new house after season was over. It attracted a male and female. They
> seemed to be in and out of house. Then female seemed to be sitting with
> male guarding. Suddenly the male seemed upset. I waited another day. No
> female seen. Checked the house two blue eggs had fallen on to base of
> floor. Two still in the nest. I’m leaving it alone. But, the male is no
> where to be seen. I fear something got the female and that was when after
> no activity I opened house and found two eggs on floor of house outside
> nest. Do I wait. While longer. I am so devastated over this loss.
> I have black bears who have on occasion destroyed a house completely. Last
> year a black bear ripped the entire side off my bluebird house. I’ve just
> about decided to give up on bird houses here. .
> Are there any devices I can buy to protect my houses. Thanks for any
> advice. I’ve decided though that as long as. I keep putting up bird houses
> my local black bears will destroy them. I’m wondering if some sort of
> alarm on side of house would work. I have a large very loud air Horn that
> runs them off But that won’t help in the middle of the night. I believe
> I’ll just put out bird food and skip nesting houses
>
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> On Thursday, March 27, 2025, 3:46 PM, Lucy and Bob Duncan <
> <robertaduncan...> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Early Neotropical passerine migrants have been moving through for the last
> several days. Parula, Prothonotary, Hooded and Black & White Warblers and
> Louisiana Waterthrushes and White-eyed Vireos. These species have
> populations that winter in both the West Indies and Central and South Am.
> Early in the season, March, early April, most of these arrivals are from
> the Indies. Why? Early migrants doing Trans-Gulf migration risk
> encountering strong cold fronts and adverse winds in the Gulf of Mexico.
> Better to winter in the Indies and move up the Florida Peninsula or eastern
> Gulf where land is down below or not far. Later in the season when the
> Bermuda High is in position giving them SE or S tail winds is a better
> deal. Populations of these same species move up later.
>
> Rain, the key ingredient for putting birds down in the immediate coastal
> area, occurred on the 24th and sure enough, Lucy and I had several migrants
> of the above species in our yard. This was not a classic Fallout (trees
> dripping with birds). This is a rare event with fewer birds each year as
> populations decline, but enough to put some down.
>
> So watch the forecast and hit the migrant traps when rain is forecast.
>
> Bob Duncan
> Gulf Breeze, FL
>
>
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