re: Birds at your Feeder: 2024

They all gotta eat.

I mainly just feed the doves.



But I did have this guy pay a visit a while back.

You need one of these:

Woodpecker and Titmouse pics?

Question for OT bird enthusiasts.

What time of year is best for replaced old, deteriorating bird houses?

I have 4 bird houses, all have current residents but, they are old and not in very good shape. I'm going build replacements but, I don't want to take the old ones down at the wrong time.

So far:
Cardinals
Blue Jays
Carolina Wren
Dark eyed junco
Pine warbler
Titmouse
Chickadee
Downy woodpecker
Red bellied woodpecker
House finch
1 Northern flicker
Eastern bluebird
Nuthatch
Sparrow

And a couple more I'm sure I'm forgetting. I've only really been putting out seed consistently for a little over 2 months.

Also - had trouble with chipmunks eating all the seed less than 30 minutes after putting it out.
I got some of this stuff, haven't seen any chipmunks since then.

Sizzle 'N Heat birdseed

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Question for OT bird enthusiasts.

What time of year is best for replaced old, deteriorating bird houses?

I have 4 bird houses, all have current residents but, they are old and not in very good shape. I'm going build replacements but, I don't want to take the old ones down at the wrong time.

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I'd say probably fall or early winter. Or early spring (like March). You want to avoid moving those during breeding season, which is going to be spring/summer.

we have 2 Blue Jays, 2 male and female cardinals, o which 1 sec gave birth to 3 babies - and now that they are old enough to fly, they come down with the parents to eat. the most Mourning Doves we have had at 1 time is about 22. we have had titmouse (several) the warbler, woodpeckers, a Brown Thrasher and several other i cant identify.

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What time of year is best for replaced old, deteriorating bird houses?

I have 4 bird houses, all have current residents but, they are old and not in very good shape. I'm going build replacements but, I don't want to take the old ones down at the wrong time.

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Nothing much that you'd have in those houses should be breeding this time of year. Birds do sometimes roost in houses over the Winter, though.

I replace, or put up, houses for Bluebirds (also double as Tree Swallow boxes) early, usually as soon as temps start to warm in February. Bluebirds will bond and begin to mate early, sometimes to their own detriment.

Of course, at the same time the BBs are doing their thing, so are the House Sparrows. So, they'll be on the houses as soon as they go up, too.

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The Bluebirds in my boxes raised 10 clutches this year, down from 15 last year. I see many of them on the powerlines and hitting the mealworms. The early Spring/late freeze aborted two clutches that I know of, and I had more pressure from House Sparrows this year than last.

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They nest alot in my yard but like you said they often nest and the boxes get taken over by sparrows. I have seen myself put up a bluebird house and have the bluebirds bringing nesting materials to it within 20 minutes it is amazing. The sparrows are a constant pest to them though.