If you put up a bluebird house
near an old field, orchard, park, cemetery, or golf course,
you'll have a good chance of attracting a pair of bluebirds. They
prefer nest boxes on a tree stump or wooden fence post between
three and five feet high. Bluebirds also nest in abandoned
woodpecker nest holes. The most important measurement is the hole
diameter. An inch and a half is small enough to deter starlings.
Starlings and house sparrows have been known to kill baby
bluebirds as well as adults sitting on the nest. Bluebirds have
problems with other animals too. The easiest way to discourage
predatory cats, snakes, raccoons, and chipmunks is to mount the
house on a metal pole, or use a metal predator guard on a wood
post.
All
of our bluebird nest boxes are North American Bluebird Society
Approved