Hi! I’m new to this site, and fairly new to Mercersburg, PA. in Franklin County.  I made contact with Joyce Stuff last Summer, at which time she gave me some bluebird boxes to put up.  This Winter, I’ve been seeing lots of bluebirds, which prompted me to put up a bluebird feeder.  I’ve been stocking it with two different types of food that I bought.  One is Bluebird Nuggets “Plus.”  They are a combination of suet, roasted peanuts, and raisins.  The bluebirds don’t seem to like the nuggets very much.  I have also been using dried mealworms.  They really gobble up the worms, and leave the nuggets mostly alone.  It’s hard for me to tell at a distance whether the birds that are getting into the feeder are bluebirds, but I’m pretty sure they are, because on occasion the birds getting into the feeder also will perch on the rail of my porch, where I can tell for sure that they are bluebirds.  I’m wondering if there might be other birds small enough to get into the bluebird feeder, though.  I was buying the mealworms in little bags containing approximately 2000 worms each.  I found that was quite expensive, considering the rate at which the bluebirds were consuming the worms.  Last week, I found a web site where I could get a plastic container with 10,000 worms.  The cost per worm was a lot less that way.

nukeguy001   <Franklin County>