Bluebird Information

• Females usually lay 4 to 5 eggs, and it takes about 2 weeks to incubate them. Plus, they stay in the nest for an additional 15 to 20 days.
• Bluebirds eat small fruits and hunt insects, spiders and other creatures.
• The birds perch, watch and they swoop to the ground to pounce on their prey.
• Pairs mate in the spring and summer, when they constuct small bowl-shaped nests.
• Bluebirds can fly up to 17 miles per hours.
• Bluebirds are called bluebirds because they are mostly blue.
• Bluebirds will eat at feeders if you have a peanut butter and cornmeal mixture.
• Bluebirds are members of the thrush family.
• Insects like grasshoppers, crickets and beetles make up most of the of the bluebird's diet. Most of the country drives during an eastern North American summer will turn up a few Eastern Bluebirds sitting on telephone wires or perched atop a nest box, calling out in a short, wavering voice or abruptly dropping to the ground after an insect. Marvelous birds to capture in your binoculars, male Eastern Bluebirds are a brilliant royal blue on the back and head, and warm red-brown on the breast. Blue tinges in the wings and tail give the grayer females an elegant look.