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They are beautiful to see. They were once very common but loss of habitat and the pressure form introduction of species such as sparrows and starlings took over their nesting holes. They don't come to feeders very often as they eat insects mostly. If you put up a box they prefer 6 foot high on a post without any trees or shrubs around or and an unrestricted area in front of the box. Water in area also helps. A cranberry bog or pond or a field are all good sites but I got them into my yard and I have only a open front yard area. I have a video I took several years ago of a whole flock of them that were on my roof drinking snow as it melted and stripping a overwintered berry bush. They must have been starving and coming up from the south and stopped by as they were gone a few hours later. Must have been 50 of them. I have to take some photos off that video some day. Really neat shots. They have a really distinctive sound that once you hear it you say I've heard that before just never realized it was a bluebird. Ok enough of the useless info I have in my trivial head.
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