WHAT IS ACCEPTABLE BLUEBIRD HABITAT?
The natural habitat of Bluebirds are open fields, prairies, and meadows with few trees or shrubs. The natural nest location is an old woodpecker hole or rotted (hollow) limb on a tree. The artificial habitat that man has created that is usable by the Bluebird includes broome fields, horse and cattle pastures, cemeteries, golf courses etc. This artificial habitat should be one that does not include the use of pesticides, as they can be harmful to the insect eating birds. Man has taken up the Bluebird cause and has created nest boxes for the Bluebirds on both the natural and artificial habitat areas. Woodland habitat is less favorable to bluebirds, but there are a number of other species that would make use of a Bluebird nest box in such habitat. These would include House Wrens, Chickadees, Great-Crested Flycatcher, Nuthatches, Titmice. Placing a Bluebird box in woodland habitat is not necessarily bad but, Bluebirds nesting there would probably be usurped by other birds (most probably ho
