Bluebird population explosion?

[Celebration]

Okay, it seems as if these purple martin houses have been in the park forever. I know it wasn't bluebirds nesting in them last year. But this year, I took a look, and then another look, and then another...........these houses are about twenty feet high, and bluebirds aren't supposed to like them much. Haha. At least it isn't sparrows, or barn swallows. Honestly I think it may have been barn swallows in them last year, though I could be wrong.

[alfredo]

1. Excellent. I used to have a Purple Martin nest on my mail route. Bluebirds were

out in the farmland. Out there they had everything from Shrikes to Blue Herons.

[Eurobabe]

2. I miss the bluebirds of Virginia

:(

[Celebration]

3. I love bluebirds

Everyone does, I think. I kept looking for information online about bluebirds nesting in purple martin houses. Purple martins are very desirable because they eat mosquitoes. All the information online said that sparrows often nest in purple martin houses, and to get rid of them when they do! (as if I could recognize a sparrow nest, LOL). But they say, when bluebirds nest in them, which is rare, let them nest, but just put a better house up about fifty feet away the next year, and hope they go there then. That's because bluebirds are universally loved.

It's weird seeing bluebirds that high in this house. There are regular bluebird houses all over the park, too. It's a population explosion of bluebirds there, I tell ya!! These aren't my best pictures of them, but they are the only pictures I have of them at a purple martin house!