We made some repairs to the bluebird house that sits on a post
near our mailbox. I want to put some plants in this area and have
a prickly pear cactus that might really like it out there. It will
probably do a good job of keeping predators away from the
birdhouse, but I also wonder if a bluebird might try to perch on it,
which would be a very bad thing. The cactus is low growing and I
don't expect it to get much higher than 12 inches--is that too low
for a bluebird to consider perching on? There are plenty
of trees for it to perch on nearby.

The cactus also takes a long time to re-plump after a hard winter,
so it wouldn't be very upright and perchable until midsummer.


--Pat

Pat Valdata | 
"The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards
and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of gods.
More than any other thing that pertains to the body
it partakes of the nature of the divine." --Plato