Congrats dee! Yep..maybe she is good for 1-2 more eggs! I have a caged feeder, and some of them will use it and some won't. Last winter (2009), I had Blues in it all the time. This past winter, I didn't see one in there. I may just bring it back out and put some mealies in it now that you have mentioned it to me. :o)

Deedee, last year my Blues had three clutches. I have a mealworm feeder that the parent birds are used to. They did indeed bring their young to the feeder. None of the baby birds actually went into the feeder. The parent birds would go in, bring out mealworms, and feed the babies that either sat on top of the feeder waiting, or in a nearby tree. So I think you'll have a lot of fun watching the bluebirds feed their young.

Its nice to hear comments from everyone on here, I watched mom today and she laid a 5th egg but she didn't go into the nest this evening so I'm betting tomorrow when I get home from work there is a 6th egg....this is so eggciting LOL it almost seems impossible that so many babies will fit in this little nest.

I never get 6 eggs here dee. Seems like 4-5 is the norm in my yard. I know that a lot of moms will lay 6 tho.

I came home from work and discovered 6 eggs in the nest WOW I have never had them lay this many in 3yrs I've been doing this awesome.....although they were being hassled by HOSP tried to get him with the BB gun no luck so I went and put up the Mylar tape and also the wren guard and they seem to accepted these well and I havent seen the HOSP but I'll keep my gun by the door.

Good luck with the HOSP dee! I'm glad your blues are active because mine are being SOOO SLOW!

The male has landed on the box of one of my pairs, sat outside the box and wing waved, and gone in but Mrs. Blue REFUSES to go in! The TRES are EVERYWHERE this afternoon and the bluebirds are nowhere to be found!:( This time last year I had a completed nest and in fact this very day, April 15th, the 1st egg was layed. The only nest building I have going on is from TRES.

I'm helping my two neighbors succeed with Purple Martins and one has trapped 1 native, killed one female BB by not checking the trap, and the other has his down and I talked to him and he is MUCH more knowledgeable and more likely to succeed.

Glad you're having a great season, because I certainly haven't had that exciting of one yet:(....I love the TRES, I won the battle against the HOSP, but the blues in our area are being VERY slow.

At my other trail there is 2 boxes...one is vacant and the other of course....you guessed it...has TRES. I saw a male HOSP twice in the area and he came out of the swallows box (They have a good nest start) and the swallow drove the HOSP into the ground. We're in for a cooler weekend and if those swallows leave that HOSP will have his way. Good luck! Because that possibility here for 3 broods is dropping fast.