The female bluebird builds her nest out of dry grass and other plant material around 3 inches deep. The bluebirds clear blue eggs will hatch in 2 weeks and the baby bluebirds will be big enough to leave the nest in 15-20 days. Bluebird pairs will raise 2 or 3 broods of young each season.

The bluebird’s main competitors are the house sparrow and the starling. Sparrows will break the bluebird’s eggs or will peck baby bluebird’s to death. The adult bluebirds are often unable to defend themselves or their young. Starlings are even worse and will drive all the bluebirds out of an area occupying every available nesting cavity unless man intervenes.

To assist the bluebird we need to provide suitable habitats, winter roosts and keep a good food supply available for them using bluebird feeders.

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