Bluebird feeding - Frequency

In addition to Messages that have appeared in the Bluebird Mailing Lists on this topic, the following are on the Audubon Society of Omaha website: 

• Feeding bluebirds by Linda Janilla Peterson (including the bluebird banquet recipe)
• The cottonseed meal recipe for bluebird food
• Bluebird feeder sketches by Linda Janilla Peterson
• Mealworm feeding
• How  To Start And Maintain A Mealworm Colony by John Thompson
• FEEDING MEALWORMS - Solving the Problem of Mealworm Getaway By Nola Aiken
• Peanut Butter Pudding by Katherine Smith
• The Smith Meal Worm Feeder by Katherine Smith
• Feeding bluebirds by Jan Alhgren

Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 08:28:54 -0700
From: Ann&Tom Long longann"at"pacinfo.com
To: BLUEBIRD-L"at"cornell.edu
Subject: mealworm feeding

I plan on feeding meal worms on my trail to help theWEBL through the cold and wet spells we have here every spring, I lost about 90% of the nestling's in the first nesting last year because of bad weather and don't want a repeat of that. I have one WEBL nest with six eggs due to hatch about May 20 that I have been giving 10-15 mealworms every day. The weather has been cool and cloudy but not much rain to speak of. My question is; When the eggs hatch and the weather gets wet and windy, how many and how often should I feed? Two or three times a day? How many would they eat at one feeding? Getting to this box requires a half mile steep uphill walk and that willl probably be the nearest one, have three others with nests but no eggs yet, they will require about two miles round trip!!!

So I am ready to do a whole lot of hiking to save these babies and would greatly appreciate any advice you can give me.

Tom Long
Mckenzie River valley
Western Oregon

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