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YAY male bb checking out the boxes!!
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Posted by bluebirdbabe (My Page) on Tue, Mar 2, 10 at 9:22
| I didn't have the blues in my yard this winter. I heard them, but only had 1 female come to eat suet. Today, a male is going from box to box calling!!! :)
I hope they don't have eggs as early as they did last year!!! I worried myself sick!! and I can't afford wax worms!!
Karen |
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RE: YAY male bb checking out the boxes!!
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| The waxworms are expensive as the dickens. Couldn't you try feeding mealworms if the temperature/weather doesn't cooperate? My favorite benefit to early nesting is the lack of House Wrens early in the season. I have yet to host Blues in my boxes, but the Black-capped Chickadees that nested early last year avoided predation by the House Wrens. I guess there are trade-offs one way or the other. |
RE: YAY male bb checking out the boxes!!
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| I agree with the early nests you don't have the worry of house wrens. But I worry because at night it got below freezing and she laid 6 eggs so....5 of them were in freezing weather. But they all made it and I still worried :) |
RE: YAY male bb checking out the boxes!!
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| YAY for you!!! Woo-hoo!! Wonderful. I know that they make me so happy. I am having really good luck with them coming to my BB feeders for BB Nuggets and Raisins this winter. I can't afford to keep them in mealworms or waxworms either. I just need to start my own mealworm farm. I'm going to get around to that someday. |
RE: YAY male bb checking out the boxes!!
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| Still a couple more weeks for me. :( |
RE: YAY male bb checking out the boxes!!
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| LOL Lisa....yep just a couple of weeks ¢¾ Karen |
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