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- Abandoned nests
- About this website and me | Reinventing
- Accuracy of information on this website
- Access, nestbox opening, pros & cons
- Acronyms
- Age – Breeding | Lifespan
- Ahlgren, Dave
- Albinos
- Alerting hosts to problems
- Alien Birds
- Allofeeding
- Alpha Codes and Names
- Anting
- Ants
- Appeal (Fascination with bluebirds)
- Althea Sherman
- Arts & Crafts
- Ash-throated Flycatcher
- Asynchronous Hatching, TRES
- Attracting Bluebirds
- Avian (Bird) Flu
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- Baffle Box by Dick Purvis
- Baffle, Conical | LBBS
- Baffles for Nestboxes
- Baffle, Wobbling Stovepipe by Ron Kingston
- Bauldry Open Top Nestbox
- Bauldry Sparow Trap
- Bird (Avian) Flu
- Birdhouse Plans and Specs – see Nestbox
- Bluebird Buoy box by Navratil
- Bluebirding for Love (Doug Zimmerman)
- Bluebirders /Bluebirding Giants
- Bluebird Weather
- Bolt, Tilt Front Box by Mel Bolt
- Books about bluebirds
- Brood patch
- Brown Bluebird
- Brown Birds (other than House Sparrows)
- Buy, where to (bluebird supplies)
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- Calcium deficiency
- Calcium – supplementing
- Calls & Songs
- Camera, nestbox set up
- Camera, Birdcam (exterior)
- Carrier (Paul) Slant Box
- Cats, Protecting Cavity Nesters from
- Cats – probably killed parent chickadee (photos)
- Carolina Wrens – Biology
- Carolina Wren nest, eggs, young photos
- Cedar – See Nestbox Pros and Cons
- Chalet Nestbox
- Chickadee, Black-capped
- Chickadee – Carolina nests, etc
- Chickadee, Mountain – photos|biology
- Chickadee nest, eggs, young photos
- Children, Activities for
- Children’s Books about Bluebirds
- Children’s Book: Get to Know Bluebirds
- Chimalis Bluebird Trail
- Citation (reference)
- Claim Straw
- Cleaning Out Nestboxes and Old Nests – also see Myths
- Climate Change
- Clutch Size – factors
- Codes – see acronyms
- Color – unusual coloration or markings
- Coloring pages
- Commercial facililities allow HOSP to breed
- Common Myths about Bluebirding
- Common (European) Starling – Biology
- Competition (among species)
- Competition – photos of fights
- Conference notes – NABS 2006, 2008
- Conical Baffle, how to make
- Conservation
- Contact me
- Cooperative Breeding
- Cowbirds – Bio | Photos
- Crafts & Arts, for Children
- Crickets, feeding
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- DANDR Nestbox Design (plan)
- Dead Tree Swallows in Nestbox
- Dead nestling – choked on bug?
- Dead nestling – should I remove it?
- Definitions – see Glossary
- Development, from Egg to Fledging (Photos)
- Diet
- Differences between bluebird species
- Differences between bluebirds and other small cavity nesters
- Disclaimer
- Distribution
- Do no harm
- Double Roof Design
- Doug Zimmerman, Bluebirding for Love
- Downside of Bluebirding
- Dummy nests
- Drumming
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- Earthworms causing fecal glue
- Eastern Bluebirds – all about (biology)
- Eastern Bluebird nests, eggs and young (photos)
- Echo (Double) Roof Design
- Education – see Children’s Activities and Handouts for talks/booths
- Efta, Rita Slot Box
- Eggs:
- Amazing egg (facts about eggs)
- Egg and Nest ID Descriptions
- Egg binding + calcium deficiency
- Eggshells – feeding
- Egg comparison – side by side photos
- Fertilization (mating, sperm storage)
- First egg
- ID Clue Chart (color, markings, etc.)
- Number – how many will a bird lay?
- Unhatched
- Photos by cavity nester
- Production (HOSP photo)
- Rotation
- Runt
- Sizes (chart)
- Weird
- White (bluebird)
- Electric lines, electric fence, shocks
- Embryo, how does it breathe
- Emergency Baby Bird Care
- Entrance Holes – see Hole Size | Specifications
- Eurasian (European) Tree Sparrow
- European Paper Wasps
- European (Common) Starlings – Biology
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- Fall/Winter Bluebirding
- Feathers in nestbox
- Feathers – facts about
- Feathers – why are they blue?
- Fecal Glue
- Fecal Sacs
- Feedback, comments, suggestions
- Feeding Bluebirds:
- Allofeeding
- Berries
- Crickets
- Feeders
- Feeders, where to buy
- Feeder, DIY
- Feeder placement
- Feeder Sketches by Linda Janilla Peterson
- Feeding Bluebirds by Linda Janilla Peterson
- Feeding Mealworms
- Fire ants
- Frequency
- Hawks at the Feeder
- Location
- Mealworms
- Mealworms Raising
- Mealworm Suppliers
- Mobile Feeder
- Planting
- Raisins
- Suet/Recipes
- Training Bluebirds to Come
- Fences, mounting on
- Fertilization of eggs (delayed)
- Fights
- Finch, Jack R., Homes for Bluebirds, Inc.
- First egg reported by State
- Fishing Line to deter HOSP
- Fledging
- Fledging, Premature
- Flocks, Flocking
- Floyd Van Ert – obituary
- Flycatchers – Great Crested, Ash-Throated
- Flycatcher, Great-crested photos
- Flyers (handouts) on bluebirds etc.
- Flying Squirrel – Biology, Photos
- Forms for Monitoring
- Food Sharing (allofeeding)
- Fostering
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
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- Games for Children
- Game – Bluebird Growing Up and Fact Sheet
- Game – Compare nestboxes
- Game – Cavity Nester ID and Fact Sheet
- Game – Habitat
- Game – Word Puzzle – Junior
- Game – Word Puzzle
- Game – The Wrong Nestbox
- Get to Know Bluebirds, book
- Giants of Bluebirding
- Gifts Related to Bluebirds
- Gifts – list of nature-related suggestions
- Gilbertson Box, story of
- Gilbertson box, safety of PVC
- Gilbertson Trap
- Gilwood Nestbox
- Glossary of Bluebirding and Bird Terms
- Glue, fecal
- Goopy over Bluebirds
- Great Crested Flycatcher Bio
- Great Crested Flycatcher photos
- Great Links and Resources
- Greek oath about making the world a better place
- Grids for Tree Swallow boxes
- Grit – why do birds eat it?
- Groups – Bluebirding
- Gruenke Sparrow Trap (emergency)
- Guard, Predator (to deter climbing)
- Guard, Hole
- Guard, Noel
- Guard, Hutchings
- Guards, pros and cons
- Guide to Nestboxes (size, holes etc.)
- Gular Flutter
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- Habitat Game
- Habitat, preferred nesting, by species
- Halo, Magic
- Handouts – for talks/booths
- Hanta Virus
- Hanging Boxes
- Hanta Virus
- Harm, do no
- HAZARDS
- Hawks at the Feeder
- Heat & Nestboxes
- Helping
- Hill Lake Nestbox by Andrew Nelson
- Hill Trail (hanging 2-holers)
- Hissing Titmouse
- History of Bluebirding
- History of Bluebirding Quiz
- History of House Sparrows
- HOME Sialis.org
- Hole restrictors/reducers/guards
- Hole size debate (starlings)
- Hole size tests
- House Finch: Bio | Photos
- House Sparrows (HOSP):
- Active HOSP Control
- Advisory (handout)
- Are they Evil? (essay)
- Attacks (warning – graphic photos)
- Behavior (Aggression)
- Biology
- Bolt Sparrow Trap
- Carrier Slant Box
- Chemical Repellents
- Children’s Story about nestbox takeover
- Decoys, use of in trapping
- Decreasing odds of capturing non-target birds in traps
- DIY trap links
- Efta Slot Box
- Egg photos
- Exclusion
- Experiments on deterring
- Euthanizing HOSP
- Feeding (passive control
- Fishing
- Gilbertson sparrow trap
- Ground traps
- Gruenke Sparrow Trap
- Guns to control HOSP
- Handout on neglected nestboxes
- History
- Hole restrictors or reducers
- Hole size entry tests
- Huber Sparrow Trap
- Hughes Slot Box
- Identification of HOSP
- Identifying a HOSP Attack
- Invasive Species, Why
- Letter to commercial facilities
- Light in nestbox
- Magic Halo
- Monofilament (fishing) line | Experiments
- Nest photos
- Nestbox Clustering
- Nestbox type
- Nestbox or Inbox Traps
- Numbers (Proliferation)
- Other Brown Birds
- Passive HOSP Control
- Peterson Sparrow Trap
- Plant management
- Playbacks, use in trapping
- Philosophy of HOSP Control
- Photos of nest, eggs, young, adults
- Photos attack (graphic) 1 | 2
- Problems caused by HOSP
- Remote controlled traps
- Removal of nests and eggs
- Removing birds from traps
- Rendering eggs infertile
- Revenge or Rampage
- Sticky Mouse Traps – do not use
- Sparrow Spookers
- Temporary boxes/changing box height to enable trapping
- Traps to Control HOSP
- Video clip of attack
- Video of HOSP removing egg
- Wall of Shame
- Wary Male
- What doesn’t work for control
- Wing trimming
- House Wrens:
- HPAI (Avian/Bird Flu)
- Huber, Joe | Huber Trap & Flip-Flop Box
- Hutchings “Coon Guard
- Hunting: Zuni | Migratory Bird Treaty
- Hunting behavior
- Hypothermia, preventing
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- Identification
- Birds – Photos
- Birds, Other Blue
- Birds, Brown
- Eggs: Photos | Chart |Description
- Nests: Photos | Chart | Description
- Incubation of abandoned eggs
- Unhatched/infertile eggs
- Injured/Orphaned, and Wildlife Rehabber
- Insects and Mites
- Interference
- Invasive birds
- Invasive plants
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- Jensen-Arndt Coolie Hat Baffle
- Juniper Titmouse – Biology | Photos of Eggs, nests, Young
- Kerfs, how to make
- Kingston, Ron
- Kingston Snake Guard
- Kinney (four hole) TRES box
- Krueger Snake Trap Plan
- Landscaping for Bluebirds
- Landfill, trail at
- Law
- Leg Bands
- Lenker (Jim) Nestbox
- Leucism
- License plates (state) with bluebirds
- Lifespan
- Links to Resources
- Lists – see acronyms
- Listservs and Online Forums
- Local & State Bluebird Societies
- Longevity
- Loren Hughes Slot Box
- Lucy’s Warbler
- Lyme Disease and Bluebirding
- Lyrics featuring Bluebirds: Songs | Quotes & Poems
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- Magazines about birds
- Magic Halo
- Magness, David A
- Mailbox – nest in
- Maps showing Eastern Bluebird range
- Mating
- Mealworms:
- Mice/Rats | Picture: Mouse House
- Micromanagement
- Migration
- Migratory Bird Treaty Act
- Misidentification of other “Blue birds“
- Misinformation online
- Mites
- Molting
- Monitoring
- Monitoring, Convincing someone to
- Monitoring Kit
- Monofilament on Nestboxes to deter HOSP
- Mortar, birds eating
- Mountain Bluebirds: Biology | photos-nests, eggs,young
- Mountain Chickadees, photos |Biology
- Mounting Nestboxes
- Mounting Peterson boxes – option
- Mystery Nests
- My Trail (Trail Descriptions and annual reports)
- Myths about Bluebirding, Common
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- NABS (North American Bluebird Society) 2006 – photos and my notes
- NABS 2008 – photos and my notes
- Names of bluebird species
- Native Americans – Zuni | Legend | Names
- Navratil Bluebird Buoy box
- Neglected Nestboxes
- Hill Lake Nestbox by Andrew Nelson
- Nest change (how to)
- Nest and egg ID
- Nest clue chart
- Nest and egg ID photo album
- Nests – photos series by cavity nester
- Carolina Wren
- Chickadee – Black-capped
- Chickadee – Carolina
- Chickadee – Mountain
- Eastern Bluebird
- Great Crested Flycatcher
- Flying Squirrel
- House Sparrow
- House Wren
- Juniper Titmouse
- Lucy’s Warbler
- Mountain Bluebird
- Oak Titmouse
- Phoebe
- Prothonotary Warbler
- Pygmy Nuthatch
- Starling
- Tree Swallow
- Tufted Titmouse
- Violet-green Swallow
- Western Bluebird
- White-breated nuthatch
- Nests not used (abandoned/dummy)
- Nests – Mystery #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6 #7 #8
- Nests – unusual sites photos, Part 1, Part 2
- Nests – how long does it take to build
- Nests – when will building begin
- Nesting habitat, preferred, by species
- Nestlings, orphaned
- New bluebirders – bottom line advice
- Nestbox Cams, buying
- Nestbox Cam, set up and mine
- Nestboxes:
- Access, nestbox opening, pros & cons
- Baffle Box by Dick Purvis
- Bauldry Open Top
- Buying (suppliers)
- Bluebird Buoy box by Navratil
- Carrier Slant Box
- Chalet
- DANDR design
- Efta, Rita Slot Box
- Gilbertson nestbox, story of
- Hanging boxes – tips
- Heat
- Hill Lake Nestbox by Andrew Nelson
- Hole restrictors – suppliers
- Flip-Flop Box, Huber
- Kinney (4 hole) TRES design
- Lenker (Jim) Nestbox
- Loren Hughes Slot Box
- Mounting Peterson Boxes
- Mounting Pros and Cons
- Mounting, Quick Mount
- NABS, Original | Newer Zeleny NABS
- Neglected
- Opening, Access
- Plans
- Pros and Cons of Styles
- PVC, safety
- Specifications (guide)
- Tilt Front Box by Mel Bolt
- Wilson, Robert NABS Style PVC
- Wrong (Game)
- Nestlings – Found dead in the nestbox
- Nesting Timetable
- Never Say Never
- New Bluebirders – bottom line advice
- Newspaper tube – nest in
- Noel Guard how to make
- Nuthatch, Pygmy, photos
- Nuthatch, Red-breasted bio
- Nuthatch, White-breasted, bio
- Nuthatch, White-breasted, nests, eggs and young (photos)
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- Oath of the Athenian City State
- Organizations – Local & State Bluebird Societies
- Origami bluebird instructions
- Orphaned Nestlings
- Other Brown Birds (not HOSP)
- Other Blue Birds (not bluebirds)
- Other Cavity Nesters
- Pairing Nestboxes
- Nestbox Grids
- Pairing Basics
- Pairing, How to do the math
- To Pair or Not to Pair
- Panting
- Paper wasps
- Parasites in Nestboxes:
- Paul Carrier Slant Box
- Pearman, Myna, Get to Know Bluebirds, children’s book
- Personal bluebird websites
- Peterson, Dick
- Peterson nestbox, mounting | Another mounting
- Peterson trap (and box plans)
- Peterson box modified by David Gwin
- Petting Baby Birds (Nestlings)
- Phoebe, Eastern, nests and young photos
- Photographs
- Plans, Nestbox
- Planting for Bluebirds
- Plants, Invasive
- Photographing Cavity Nesters, tips
- Poems about Bluebirds
- Population, History of Bluebirds
- Population, House Sparrow
- Postal Stamps with Bluebirds
- Predator ID
- Predator Guard (climbing) – Wobbling Baffle, Noel, Conical, Hutchings
- Predator Guards – pros and cons
- Preferred nesting habitat, by species
- Presentations – handouts
- Premature Fledging, preventing
- Privacy Policy
- Problem ID
- Prognosticator (tracking)
- Prothonotary warblers – Bio | Photos
- Purvis, Dick, Baffle Box
- Pygmy Nuthatch, photos
- Quick Mount
- Quiz about Bluebird History
- Quotes related to Bluebirds
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- Raccoons | Video of Raccoon Attack
- Raising Mealworms
- Range, Eastern Bluebird
- Ranges, links to all small cavity nesters (BBS)
- Rats and Mice
- Record Keeping
- Red-breasted Nuthatch Bio
- Red Squirrels
- Red Squirrel Biology and Deterrence
- Reducer, hole
- References – also see book reviews
- Reference (citation) for Sialis.org
- Rehabilitator, Wildlife, find
- Reinventing Sialis.org
- Research Priorities
- Restrictor, hole
- Returning bluebirds – will they come back?
- Rhymes and Songs about Bluebirds
- Ringing birds (banding)
- Rita Efta Slot Box
- Roosting, Winter
- Runt, photos
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- Safety, nestbox made of PVC
- Safety, hazards to bluebirders
- Scriven, Doreen
- Sequence of Events
- Sharing Food (Allofeeding)
- Sheet Metal Guard for post
- Sherman, Althea
- Sialis.org: About | Accuracy | Reinventing
- Size, hole
- Slot boxes: Rita Efta | Hughes
- Slot boxes – are they sparrow resistant?
- Smith Memorial Bluebird Trail
- Snakes
- Snake Predator Guard (Kingston)
- Snake Trap Plan – Krueger
- Snowbird lyrics
- Societies – Local & State Bluebird Organizations
- Songs & Calls – BluebirdsSpecies, Bluebird- names, differences
- Songs featuring bluebirds in the lyrics
- Species, cavity nester, preferred habitats
- Sperm Storage
- Spiders in Nestboxes
- Spring and Summer Bluebirding
- Sunbathing
- Squirrels, Red
- Squirrel Tooth Benders (hole guards)
- Stamps With Bluebirds on Them
- Starlings (European/Common) – Biology
- Starlings – nests, eggs, young photos
- Starting A New Traiil
- State Birds – see History
- State & Local Bluebird Societies
- Story – How the Bluebird Got Its Color
- Story – Nestbox Parfait
- Subspecies of bluebirds
- Suet – recipes, feeding
- Suffocation
- Supplementing calcium
- Suppliers, Bluebird
- Swallows – Tree Swallows
- Swallows- Violet-green
- Swallows – dead in the nestbox
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- Tanglefoot, buying
- Ticks
- Tilt Front Box by Mel Bolt
- Time Commitment
- Timetable, nesting
- Timetables – how long does it take?
- Titmouse, hissing
- Titmouse, Juniper – biology | photos
- Titmouse, Oak nests and eggs
- Titmouse, Tufted
- Titmouse nest, eggs, young photos
- The Birdhouse Network
- Top Tips and Tricks to Attract Bluebirds
- Trails, My
- Trails, Starting (How to)
- Training Bluebirds to come to feeder
- Traps & Trapping
- Trapping, House Sparrows
- Traps, House Sparrow, Review of
- Trap, Bauldry
- Trap, Gilbertson
- Gruenke (emergency)
- Trap, Huber
- Trap – Krueger Snake Trap Plan
- Peterson trap
- Van Ert, Floyd, Trap
- Tree, boxes mounted on
- Tree Branch Nestbox – Frank Zuern
- Tree Sparrow, Eurasian (Bio)
- Tree Swallows
- Grid set up for nestboxes
- Tree Swallows, All About
- Tree Swallows, Dead in nestbox
- Tree Swallows, Asynchronous hatching
- Tree Swallows, Kinney (4 hole) nestbox design
- Tree Swallows, nest, eggs, young photos
- Tree Swallow adult photos
- Trimming, wings (HOSP)
- Tufted Titmouse
- Turkey Gnats
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- Unhatched eggs
- Unusual nest sites, photos, Part 1, Part 2
- Vandalism, Preventing
- Van Ert, Floyd, obituary
- Van Ert, Floyd, Trap
- Videos about Bluebirds (DVDs or VHS)
- Video Clip of the Month
- Violet-green Swallows: Biology | Photos
- Wall of Shame
- Warbler, Lucy’s
- Warbler, Prothonotary
- Wasps, Paper
- Webmaster
- Weird eggs found in nestboxes
- Western Bluebirds – Bio | Photos
- West Nile Virus
- Wet Nests – Changing and Preventing
- White bluebirds
- White-breasted Nuthatches, Bio
- White-breasted Nuthatches, photos of nests, eggs, young
- White (Bluebird) Eggs
- Widows/Widowers
- Wildlife Rehabilitation
- Wilson, Robert NABS Style PVC
- Window Clings, suppliers
- Window Strikes – Cause, Preventing
- Wing Trimming (HOSP)
- Winter/Fall Bluebirding
- Winterizing Nestboxes
- Woodpeckers, Downy
- Woodpeckers, Drumming
- Word Puzzle – Junior or Regular
- Wrens
- Wrens, Bewick’s – Biology | Photos
- Wrens, Carolina – Biology | Photos
- Wrens, House – Deterring
- Wrens, House – all about (Bio)
- Wrens, House nests, eggs and young (photos)
- Wrens, House – another perspective
- Wrens, House – the Great Debate, revisited
- Wrens, House, Guards, by Bob Orthwein
- Wrong Nestbox – Game
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X-Y-Z Back to the Top
- You know you’re a bluebirder when…
- Zeleny baffle – see Conical baffle
- Zeleny, Dr. Lawrence
- Zeleny, Newer NABS Nestbox
- Zuern, Frank,Tree branch nestbox
- Zuni, hunting of bluebird
I’m always chasing rainbows, Waiting to find a little bluebird in vain.
– Joseph McCarthy, song “I’m Always Chasing Rainbows, 1918