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Sat, May 19, 12 at 15:46
| We have a new nest in our bluebird house. No eggs yet, but the nest is there!
We bought refidgerated mealworms and a feeder. We tried Bluebird nuggets and dried mealworms from the feed store with no luck. What else do they like to eat that we can provide to keep them close to the nest? |
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| I am assuming you mean live mealworms that you keep in the fridge right? In order to attract the blues to the mealworms you first need to watch and see where they normally perch and set a glass dish of the worms underneath that spot. The blues will see the movement and drop down to see if it is food. Once they know there is food in that dish you can then move it to a feeder and they should find it. I would not put the feeder real close to the nestbox as lots of other birds like mealworms and this may attract them. I have my mealworm feeder up on the deck. I normally feed mealworms and waxworms, they also love crickets but you need to remove the back leg of the cricket so it cannot jump out of the dish. Some people have luck with suet and nuggets but I haven't. Earlier this Spring my male blue was eating peanut chips though. A tip regarding the dried mealworms, they like them better if you rehydrate them first. Just put them in a cup of hot water, once the water cools, drain it pat them a bit with patper towel and put in a dish for them. I switch to the rehydrated ones later in September once live food is more scarce. Good luck! donna |
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| Thanks Donna! We bought a plastic dome mealworm feeder. The bluebirds have landed on it but no worms are missing. The worms are dead again! The Bluebirds are fussy eaters ! I wonder if it is because it is so buggy here? |
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