Bird Watching: Need some advice on bluebird houses (for a newbie), 0 by 2dCousinDave

2dCousinDave wrote:
Mine have finally decided to get started. Got the first egg yesterday, so I put up the sparrow spooker and the blues had a fit! It was so windy the strips were blowing all over the place. The blues wouldn't go inside the box and the male repeatedly snapped at the mylar strips. This morning it was still windy so I tied back all the strips except one and they were much more comfortable with that arrangement. They went in the box without hesitation and today we got the second egg. If the wind dies down tomorrow I will untie a couple of the mylar strips.

Here the male pulls on one of the strips. Sorry for the lack of picture quality. It was very overcast and raining off and on.