Ijams bluebird box workshop creates new homes for birds

We are rapidly approaching the end of February and soon thereafter the arrival of verdant spring.

Male eastern bluebirds (Sialia sialis) will be claiming their territories and chortling to attract female partners. If their songs are enticing, their territories bountiful and their plumage pleasing, the hopeful males will succeed. They like to nest in open areas, large yards, fields and meadows where they hawk for insects, their principal food source.

Thanks to all who came to our Bluebird Box Workshop last Saturday and built a nest box of their very own. In all, 17 pairs of eastern bluebirds will find a cheery new knotty-pine home to raise a family or two this year.

Ijams has been getting people in touch with nature since the 1920s.

- Stephen Lyn Bales