A Cure for the Winter Blahs!
by Doug Reeves, assistant chief, DNR Wildlife Division Do you want a good activity to get you thinking about spring? Then build a bluebird box or two and put it/them up in a good place. Do it now. It really is only a matter of weeks before bluebirds will be looking for nest sites again, and you want to be prepared. Early migrants may use the boxes as roost sites even before they are ready to nest. My son, Greg, just sent me a note from his Houston-area home. A pair of eastern bluebirds is making a nest in a box that we put up along his fence line last year. This will be the fourth nesting of bluebirds in that box since we put it up. Greg’s note reminds me that it is time to clean out my bluebird boxes, evict the mice, repair boxes that need repairs and build new ones to replace those that are beyond repair. It really is time to think spring, even though it is snowing and the temperature is in the single digits as I write this. I will likely be on snowshoes as I do some of the ...