Date: 6/5/26 8:09 am From: jennifer Frost <jennfrost67...> Subject: Re: [NHBirds] Bluebirds Teach Their Teenagers About Self Sufficiency
My fledglings are being lazy,parents leading to mealworm feeder and
stuffing them with dried mealworms! I would think a juicy caterpillar would
be more nutritional and easier to swallow!
On Fri, Jun 5, 2026 at 7:08 AM Alfred Maley <alfredmaley...> wrote:
> Five young bluebirds have been chasing their parents around the yard for
> about ten days now, begging constantly for food. Mrs. Bluebird has now
> shown them how to feed themselves, on white pine sawfly larvae.
>
> Our driveway lies below several big white pine trees from which fall
> hundreds of white pine sawfly larvae each year at the time. They are so
> small that if they fall in the grass they are invisible. But on the
> driveway they are eagerly sought out by catbirds, robins, chipping sparrows
> and bluebirds. Yesterday Mrs. Bluebird calmly flew down to the driveway,
> ignoring all her children, and began to scarf up larvae. One by one the
> youngsters flew down to the driveway, stopped complaining and began to pick
> up these tasty morsels. Soon there were seven bluebirds darting hither and
> yon on the driveway and peace and quiet had returned.
>
> Al Maley
> Hampstead, NH
>
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