Yesterday, right at sunset a bluebird appeared in the backyard. I have the bluebird house up and it is ready when the bluebirds are ready. They have been fighting the sparrows, as they do each year. The photo is more of a silhouette due to the lighting from the sunset.
I too have been cleaning the house several times a day of garbage. The ratbirds (sparrows) make nests out of anything they find. And they will kill the bluebirds. So the battle has started in my backyard. You can see below on of the rat nests I cleaned out of the house. The bluebirds use only pine straw and their nests are very neat.
Hopefully the bluebirds will win. I will continue helping as I do each year. Eventually there will be a new bluebird family in Dustin’s garden. Waiting on my Bluebirds of Happiness stories for 2019. Patience.
©CarolDM2019
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Are there any birds or animals you help in nature?
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This is one of many rat nests I took out of the bluebird house today! Frustrating?
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Sometimes I watch birds … Sparrows can be really aggressive over bats
Looks like the little guy is there to say “what’s for dinner, tonight?”
He is watching the female on the bluebird house nearby.
Nice post, my eldest sister arranged several bird boxes for Starlings and that is where they were told to go. I don’t know if that is where they actually went.
Thanks Pam, I don’t see many starlings. They can be very aggressive.
I know that the blue birds will manage with your help
I have to agree with you, we always win. 🙂
I didn’t know that there is a continuing battle between these two clans. I don’t know about any type of bird. But, wouldn’t it be possible to make a bluebird house and a sparrow house?
Yes, many don’t know but it is never-ending until finally the sparrows gives up. I will never make a sparrow house, not enough room to have them both. They would always be bothering the bluebirds. I will not encourage them.
I hope bluebirds will win.
Thanks Fortune, they will, I will make sure. 🙂
this just in, Queen of Narnia brought up on charges by the NAACP (Narnian Animal Association of Cair Paravel)
Ha! And I left out the part about my little pink BB gun. 🙂
they’re outlaws, conspiring against the queen
Your concern for bluebird is amazing, Carol.
…and the photo is very interesting.
I absolutely love them Albert, always feel Dustin around when I see them. Dustin gave me a small crystal bluebird when I was sick one year and told me if I keep it close, I will always be happy. This was maybe two years before I lost him. I keep it nearby always.
YEs, this photo is just showing what I and the bluebirds deal with having the sparrows around. They use trash and whatever they can find to stuff in the nest.
We and everything staying in Love and an inseparable part of Love itself, from its lowest form to the very subtle and sublime, without separation at all, so I can really understand you about it, especially with your sensitivity.