Eastern bluebirds are at their busiest right now, spending more time than usual on the wing in search of insects to feed their young broods.
One of our most beautiful songbirds, these are the birds with the sky on their backs. They are especially obvious in the Oak Openings Region, where they thrive in the sandy landscape that offers a natural and very special patchwork of woodland, tallgrass prairie and meadow. It offers ideal habitat for nesting and raising young. But virtually every Metroparks Toledo can host bluebirds.
The most obvious clue to places to observe bluebirds is to locate one of the many nest boxes already strategically located for success. Observe the box and its surroundings from a non-threatening distance. Many of those nest boxes are occupied, but not always by bluebirds. They’re designed to appeal to cavity nesters and sometimes tree sparrows, wrens, sparrows, titmice and nuthatch find them to their liking. A really special claim jumper would be protonotary warblers, which have been known to use boxes.
