Depends where you are located. Are you in town or on the outskirts? For the most part Bluebirds are not in town so to speak but that all depends on the town itself as far as how big the lots are and how much open land there is. I know in town here closer to the edge of town I do hear Bluebirds. Is your birdhouse easily visable from the air or trees? Putting up a bluebird feeder will not attract Bluebirds since Bluebird need to be trained to come to a feeder so you need to actually have Bluebirds around before you can start feeding them. Bluebirds primarily eat insects, in Winter or cooler months or if bugs are scarce they will eat suet or berries though. But during nesting season they pretty much stick to bugs. Pretty much putting up a house and waiting is what you need to do to attract Bluebird so you are doing things right, especially if you have read and followed the advice on silais on how to properly install a nestbox. Have you had any interest in your birdhouse from other birds? Have you seen or heard any Bluebirds in your area? Donna

Yep, it is never too late! Just a note about a mealworm feeder. It is a great idea if you have blues in your yard that you can train to come to one but if not you could be wasting your money. Bluebirds don't readily come to feeders and need to be trained to do so by putting a dish with live mealworms under where they normally perch. Once they see the movement they will drop down on it and see what they are. Once they know there are mealworms in the dish you can move it to where you want. Just so you are aware it may not work to just set up a mealworm feeder as unless they have been fed somewhere else in a feeder like yours, they will have no clue that there are mealworms in it. Good luck! Donna

Thanks Girls, I sure hope the rehabbers return my emails. I don't know what the parents where thinking have babies this late. (I'm in NY zone 5 and winters are harsh). And so close to my house and cats. Keeping the cats inside is not an option here. :( they are what they are...cats. I usually don't intervene when it comes to nature, but this was also my fault. Here's the whole story. I had a cute bird house on top of a whiskey barrel planter. It was on an 8' pressure treated landscaping tie. This thing is very close to my house, well a pair of blue birds moved in. I thought they were just looking for a winter shelter or something. Any way my cat climbed the post and stuck her arm in the bird house. I chased her away and that was almost a week ago. so on friday late afternoon, I noticed the post was leaning so I pushed on it to straighten it and it broke! It was about 15yrs old. Now I had not see the birds any where near the house since the cat attacked and assumed they just left. But when the post broke I looked in the broken bird house just to be sure, and there it was. One baby bird. I got a flash light and search the area where it landed, in a thick hosta bed and couldn't find any other babies. I had to bring it inside, it was getting dark. So it survived the night and in the morning I fixed the bird house, hung it up on an arbor about 5' from its original spot. After feeding the baby one last time we put it in the bird house and waited. Not a single siting so that night we brought it back in the house. I was hoping the parents would come back but I have to assume the cat got them. I feel terrible about the whole thing but most of all for starving and already neglected baby bird. I'm shocked how long it can live without food. I'm not an inside bird person at all!!!, but this little thing is worming its way on me. lol Lisa, thanks for the sialis site. That was very informative. I had no idea they can't eat earth worm. Thank goodness I didn't feed it that. I have lots of the bugs, like grasshoppers to get it healthy though. Wendy, it is kinda sweet taking care of this little bird, but I'm really not sure I can do it justice. In fact I know I can't. I doubt it will be strong enough to survive the winter. I'll just keep it healthy as I can til the rehabbers take it. I'm in for a fun filled day of catching bugs :) yuck! Reminds me of my youth. :) Laura

Thanks so much for your input Bet. That particular flock moved on after about 4 weeks. I am now hosting a small flock of 10 Eastern Bluebirds. They showed up on Dec. 24th, and have been here numerous times a day ever since. They were waiting for their breakfast this morning. They watch me fill their feeder from high in a tree about 40 feet away. I feed them mealworms and suet crumbles from a recipe I found at your site. I even found the instructions for making the feeder at your site. Thanks so much for putting in all the time to share all that information with us.