You will not want to miss the 2009 BSP/NABS Bluebird Conference held at the Holiday Inn-Hershey located in Grantville, Pa. This is open to the public and the Bluebird Society of Pennsylvania will be hosting this awesome event.  September 9th thur 13th, we have the days and evenings loaded with tours and guest speakers, vendors, auction, gift baskets, Quilt raffle, and much more.  Please visit the  link below for more information.

http://www.thebsp.org/NABSconf2009-Current.pdf

Contact person is Kathy Clark, Conference Chair and President of the BSP   717-695 0700  / KCBSP@aol.com

I have had a bluebird house in my back yard for the past 2 yrs with no activity. This spring I gave up and let sparrows nest and raise a brood. Last week while mowing I noticed a male Bluebird sitting on top of the house battling with the sparrow. I immediately cleaned out the sparrow nest, and believe it or not it hasnt been back. The male Bluebird has been back every morning and evening. He sits atop and chirps and pretends to put nesting material in the house, and flys back and forth to the nearby telephone pole. He has quite a following of females some mature some not. It has been 4 days and he has had 1 female in the house two days bringing nesting materials in the morning only, but there are always three to five more females in the brush and trees near the house. One evening 5 females were on top of the house and three in the brush beside it, and the male was in a pine further away. I am thrilled with the activity but the house remains uninhabited. They still come every morning and evening, but they dont eat the meal worms I put out. I thought maybe they were getting ready for a second brood and that I would have my first nesting pair but I am confused as to what the heck is really going on. Is my house a dummy nest house? What should I do.

MoodyBlue

Is it worth putting up a couple of bluebird boxes near route 83? They’d only be about 50 yards from the road as the crow flies, but they’d be down a steep bank with quite a few trees on it. So there’s constant road noise, but it’s not deafening or anything. It’s something I find pretty bothersome for the first 15 minutes while I’m there, then my mind sort of tunes it out and I don’t really notice it. But I wonder if the bluebirds can deal with it.

Phil