Re: bluebirds

They also like the entrance to be facing east. (The gentleman who started building and promoting bluebird boxes came from Quincy, IL.)
Cathy, z5b, Quincy, IL
On Tuesday, February 24, 2004, at 06:15 PM, pdickson wrote:

Thanks Pam, I followed all the suggestions on the bluebird web site... like
only so high .... on a fence away from trees... away for the prevailing
winds... and placed them 100 yards apart... I have been told that I need
to just be patient and keep them cleaned out. A master gardener has them on
the other side of town out in a subdivision with lot of cedar trees around.
I guess they just have to find me.
Patricia

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pamela J. Evans" <gardenqueen@gbronline.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 12:44 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] 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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