Sprouting like skinny mushrooms, each has a wooden nest box mounted on the top of a 6-foot pole. The shelters are seasonal homes for tree swallows and eastern bluebirds, species that historically ...

Chester County woman can lay claim to many such bluebirds as she helps protect and preserve our area’s bluebird population.

Did you know that birds cannot taste the hot pepper in hot pepper bird foods? They cannot, but mammals can, so if you are looking for a solution to keeping critters like squirrels, raccoons, and ...

where volunteers check man-made nesting boxes to gauge the success of the program. “The eastern bluebird was actually declining due to pesticide usage and habitat fragmentation,” explained ...

With that designation, I have been monitoring the bluebird trail in Austintown Township Park. There are six nesting boxes, but all are not occupied by eastern bluebirds. There are several species ...

Eastern bluebirds are obligate cavity nesters, with a cavity of some kind necessary to nesting success. Enter the bird house. Nest-box networks — bluebird trails — cover eastern North America.

Each spring, Brockway monitors around 100 bluebird nest boxes. Every week ... diameter — slightly larger than what's required for eastern bluebirds. And absolutely no perch on the front of ...

With the addition of nesting boxes in neighborhood backyards and parks, Eastern bluebirds now nest in all 83 counties in Michigan, Hagemeister said. An increase in cavities from the Emerald Ash ...

These invasive and aggressive birds can spell trouble in your yard, where they might evict Eastern bluebirds from their ...

Birds that nest inside cavities, such as the eastern bluebird and other birds that use bird boxes, are a particular favorite of the black rat snake, with the species having been previously caught ...