Re: bluebirds

If I remember correctly - bluebirds can be territorial and you should
place the boxes 100 feet apart or something like that. They won't nest
too close to each other. Will try to look that up when I get home, but I
think that's right.


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "pdickson" <pdickson@sbcglobal.net>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date:  Tue, 24 Feb 2004 07:35:25 -0600

>This past weekend we had over 20 robins in our yard....  but now it is cold,
>overcast, windy and just not springy at all.  Do they just come up to look
>for a place to live?
>I am still trying to get bluebirds interested.  I put up 5 boxes  2 years
>ago just like the instructions say but I still haven't seen a bluebird. Is
>there anything that I can do to make them want to move in?
>Patricia
>zone 6b
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Bonnie & Bill Morgan" <wmorgan972@ameritech.net>
>To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
>Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 7:29 AM
>Subject: RE: [CHAT] Spring is coming!
>
>
>> I saw the first robin almost two weeks ago.  I figured his homing
>mechanism
>> went haywire.  It was snowing that day.  He sure wasn't "singing."  Still,
>> there is always hope....
>>
>> Blessings,
>> Bonnie (SW OH - zone 5)
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
>Behalf
>> Of cathy carpenter
>> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 6:27 PM
>> To: gardenchat@hort.net
>> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Spring is coming!
>>
>> We have a possum roaming around. DH claims he saw a robin, but I have
>> not verified it.
>> Cathy
>> On Thursday, February 19, 2004, at 08:52 AM, Aplfgcnys@aol.com wrote:
>>
>> > I just looked out the window and saw a chipmunk!  He was sitting on
>> > top of a
>> > big rock, looking a bit dazed as if he didn't quite know why he was
>> > there.
>> > And yesterday I was pretty sure I heard a robin.  Couldn't see one,
>> > but the song
>> > was unmistakably robin.  We are still snow-covered, even though it got
>> > up to
>> > 40 degrees yesterday and was only 24 when we got up this morning.  The
>> > next
>> > few days are predicted to be milder, so maybe it will happen. I have
>> > pushed my
>> > club into scheduling a horticulture show in mid-April - just two
>> > months away.
>> > I've begun to worry that there won't be anything up by then. Think
>> > Spring!
>> > Auralie
>> > Z5
>> >
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