What kind of container should I use for feeding meal worms to blue birds?
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Q: Each morning, two bluebirds sit in the middle of a maple tree in our front yard. They come very early and leave around 9 or 9:30 a.m. I run out, put out peanut butter, raisins, lard, oatmeal and cornmeal. They never eat even when there are no other birds.
There are some dead limbs in the tree with many holes and I saw one bluebird pecking on the limb one time. Otherwise, they just sit there. What am I doing wrong? Is there any way I can lure them to eat?
A: Sounds like your bluebirds have something other than eating on their minds. This is typical bluebird behavior when they're shopping for a home — "sit and contemplate," whether it's a dead branch or a nest box. They may very well be moving into one of those holes in your tree, or perhaps have already selected one.
Try adding a dish of mealworms to your menu to coax them down to eat.
Q: I feed the birds all winter and up into the spring, mostly sunflower seeds. I have a lot of finches — gold and house. Lately, I have found a bird or two that I'm right up on before they startle and try to fly away. Their eyes don't look particularly healthy; I even wonder if they may be blind. Could these birds have an eye disease? Am I helping spread it with the feeders?
I ordered 1000 meal worms on eBay for the Blue Birds. Some of them had escaped from the container and were crawling all over the stuffing in the ...
p Look for parent birds taking a mouthful of mealworms back to the nest or nest box to feed to their nestlings. Because mealworms can crawl, it is best to place them in a feeder where they cannot crawl out:p a cup-type feeder with smooth sides that are more than 1" high.
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The Joy of Birding, A Beginner's Guide Some insect-eating birds that aren't attracted to your traditional feeders may be willing to stop by for a quick meal of fresh, live mealworms. I use them to bring in eastern bluebirds, although once the word has spread, everyone may ... |
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Complete Guide to Birdhouses Bluebirds especially are fond of these wiggling worms. In fact, fledglings may be brought to the feeder by their parents, while baby birds will be fed them while still in the nest. Mealworms add protein to many birds' diets. |
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Union Township students feed, learn about bluebirds At snack time each day, not only second graders but also their science project — three families of bluebirds — have a bite to eat. When kids finish eating, they go outside to feed mealworms to bluebirds and swallows that live in bird houses outside |
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Bluebird watch: Worm farm and feeder add to the fun I was at their house photographing birds this winter in their beautifully landscaped backyard when Steve pulled out one of those three-drawer Rubbermaid storage units and started scooping up meal worms for the bluebirds. He even had a special feeder |
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COLUMN: Ladies and gentlemen, we have bluebirds! thought about putting up little red white and blue banners all around the yard that said “Welcome Bluebirds. We are blue for you!'' and maybe have an open house tour complete with hors d'oeurves of white grub dip and some meal worm pâté. |
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Life Cycle Science Center opens at Robeson Elementary “Right now we have ant farms out there and worm farms. We raise mealworms to feed the blue birds already, so we can now put them outside.” The building was given the name The Out Back Nature Center. The students voted on the name. |
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DIY garden art looks instantly vintage and very chic "And remember your fluttering and feathered friends; add your leftover pickle juice for butterflies or mealworms for blue birds to a hypertufa container. "Bring a glass of ice tea and chair and be with nature." Hypertufa, mixed with equal parts of peat |