Jane, if you only have one feeder out, you might try a good mixture with black oil sunflower seeds stirred into it. Don't get the cheapie kind with those little reddish-brown "BB's" in it. I have never seen ANYTHING actually eat those. I get mine at PetSmart, and I really love the Stokes mixture that has no hulls in it. I feed it, black oiler sunflowers and safflower seed. Safflower seed goes into a feeder that doesn't have squirrel protection, because they don't really like it, but cardinals and titmice do. HOWEVER, no matter what you are feeding, there will be times when birds are not around for various reasons. I have hardly any right now, mostly due to a pair of hawks hanging about our neighborhood. And even without the hawks, birds often disappear for a few weeks now and then. One more thing...don't forget that WATER is probably even more important than seed in luring birds to your yard. You'll notice that most of Maureen's pictures feature her great birdbath. Be sure to provide several "baths" around the yard. They can be anything from decorative features to trashcan lids on the ground with 2" of water in them. I often turn clay pots upside down and put a clay saucer on top for water. Keep the water CLEAN and shallow, maybe even adding a rock in the center for birds to stand on. Good luck! Marcia

Wear a hat and it won't seem so intimidating. My first year with Blues was the only year I had terrible divebombers other years they were much more tolerant and just scolded me. We have TRES so Blues divebombing never seems as bad anymore. TRES get really really close when they divebomb and usually if there are other TRES around they join in the bombing mission. It is nuts with the TRES. I say go look but wear a hat and you probably will feel better. They won't hit you cause if they did they could injure themselves. Donna

Hey Anita: I can be serious too, yes I do have a nestcam, I didn't have the nestcam set up for the first batch of the year, But have got it set up for the second batch, the mother has three eggs now, I also set up a cheap TV from Salvation Army out side my shed for the rest of those in the Trailer Park to also be able to see what's going on. As far as your baby with it's head back, well it probably just fell asleep like that, being it is probably just a day or two old with out much muscle tone to control much of any thing. I had a baby that was about a couple of days old, young enough that you could open the side of the bluebird box and they would still have their mouth open to any sound. Anyway got one picture where this one bluebird neck looked really bad, looked like a really big gash, I was really worried about the little bird, but they all grew up Ok and flew away Ok as far as I know, maybe some of them might end up with attention deficit disorder which some of us have, but I think they will be Ok. As far as your baby bird goes, maybe his neck feels a little sore and the way he has it laid out is the best way for him to feel good physically, but with out much muscle tone in his neck, He probably said good enough for now, ZZZZZZZZZZZZ. I'm sure it's a one time deal and after a day or two they will all be laying still in the box looking normal, trying to play dead. Looking forward to seeing my eggs hatch and seeing them feed with the mini camera. Right now it is on a old VCR but eventually before the eggs hatch will hope to get the DVD recorder hooked up to it to record nature at it's best. Sincerely, Keith

WOW, do you have MY bluebirds? LOL! My male will swoop me and clack those wings like crazy and has made head AND shoulder contact a few times. I wear a large hat and sunglasses and just GO FOR IT! I know they can't hurt me (it's really only the male who attacks) and while I don't monitor every day I do when I need to see what's going on like hatching, etc. and then about 3 times a week to make sure all is well inside the box. Sometimes I make my hubby go out with me, I use him as a distraction, and he has ducted and run for his life every time. I remind him it's only a tiny little bird that weighs around 60 grams. My male also swooped my poor dog when she was trying to do her "business" but he thought she was to close to HIS box. She was deaf as a post and couldn't hear him clacking those wings right above her and I'd stand inside and watch out the window and LMAO! If you ever happen too close to a Mockingbird nest, no joke, they really will come after you. I've had them chase me across the street with neighbors standing there watching, just amazed, and me waving my arms to prevent an attack! I was not trying to get close to their nest and didn't know they had three babies in the juniper right behind my mailbox when they first came after me. I kept my distance and our mail carrier, a very nice woman, brought the mail to the door till they fledged. She didn't want to be attacked either! LOL!