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Eastern Bluebirds at seed feeders

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Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:25:15 GMT

Several months ago we began filling our hopper-styled feeder with hulled sunflower (ie germ without shell) rather than black-oil sunflower.
To our surprise (and delight) Bluebirds are now enthusiastically and regularly visiting the feeder.  I understood that Bluebirds were insect, fruit, and worm-eating birds.  Is this just opportunistic behavior of a species that may have a bill unsuited to stripping hull from black-oil sunflower?
Has anyone else had a similar experience?
Jay Jones
Derwood, MD


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