Nesting Box Placement Get Ready for Spring! NEW Photo Bird Guide A Warm Nest is Best Follow these easy Provide for nesting birds by offering nesting material. tips to have the Our all natural sheep's wool is great because it is a This New Guide to good insulator even when wet. Put clumps in trees, or most success with use one of our green spring holders or suet cages to Western Birds has hold the wool. your nesting boxes Natural Wool Nesting Material $3.49 Great Photos in an this spring Easy-to-use Format No Trees? Put the Box on a Pole Put up your nesting boxes where they work best for - Most birds prefer privacy for nesting. The Photographic Guide to the Birds of you, and your birds, with our Advanced Pole System Avoid placing boxes immediately (APS). The modular design of our APS allows you to Western North America is the best adjacent to feeders or high human create the pole that best suits your needs. photo based guide to our birds ever traffic areas. produced. It contains large, close up - Facing the box in the northeast WBU Advanced Pole System color photos of all western birds, quadrant is ideal. South and west facing including male, female, and juvenile boxes are often more exposed to wind Flickers Use Nesting Boxes Too plumages. Range maps show bird and summer sun. Northern Flickers, our most common woodpecker distributions by season. Informative text - Mount the box at least 4 ft high (some species, are currently looking for nesting locations. describes appearance, vocalizations, species prefer higher). If lower, birds Occasionally Flickers will peck on homes in an effort status, habitat, and observation tips. A are more susceptible to predators like to excavate a nesting cavity. 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During winter, flocks of Western Bluebirds can Primary Cavity nesters will excavate their own holes, used, occupancy rates to their nestlings once they hatch. Finicky insect eating birds often be found in more open forests or forest edges while secondary cavity nesters are dependent upon natural tend to be higher in such as Bluebirds, Wrens, Thrushes, and even Warblers will cavities and abandoned sites created by primary cavity cleaned boxes. Just pull throughout Central Oregon. Like the Mountain Bluebird, their out any old nesting visit feeders to take mealworms. Offer mealworms in tray diet consists mainly of insects (like mealworms), but they will nesters. debris & it is now ready style feeders with steep sides. also eat fruit such as juniper berries. Common Primary Cavity Nesters for new tenants. - Northern Flicker - Hairy, Downy, & White-headed Woodpeckers Mealworms (500 count container) $8.99 - Red-breasted & Pygmy Nuthatches The Mountain Bluebird Give Your Birds the Calcium They Require The Mountain Bluebird has longer wings and tail, and is Common Secondary Cavity Nesters During nesting season, many birds struggle to get an slimmer than the Western Bluebird. The male Mountain - Mountain Chickadee adequate amount of calcium in their diet. Egg Essentials Bluebird is a bright sky blue overall, with a white belly and - White-breasted Nuthatch are suet nuggets that contain the necessary calcium to vent. The female is more gray, with a slight tan coloration - House Wren help make stronger eggs and healthier bones for mother on the upper breast. Both sexes lack the chestnut breast - Mountain & Western Bluebirds birds and their babies. Egg Essentials fit perfectly in a plumage of the Western Bluebird. 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