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Providing food for bluebirds allows them to spend more time caring for their young and building nests and less time looking for food. Primarily, bluebirds eat insects, but they will also eat raisins, sunflower seeds and various fruits and berries when insects cannot be found.

When you set up your blue bird feeders you will have to be prepared to receive some unwanted guests as well. Although blue bird feeders are designed to prevent larger birds from reaching the food, a bird of the same size or smaller can fit into the feeder and eat the food before the bluebird has realized.

To encourage the bluebirds into your feeder, you will need to lay some feed on a tray close to the feeder. Bluebirds will need to learn how to enter the holes of the feeder. You will also need to lay some feed on a platform underneath the feeder until the bluebirds realize that they have to enter the hole to eat.

You should place bluebird feeders in an area that the birds can see. Try and place them in an area that you think the bluebirds regularly eat at. If sparrows are a problem to your bird feeder, then it may need to be moved away from your home. If wrens begin to be a problem, you may need to install another feeder to "distract" them. If a mockingbird is taking over the feeder and preventing other birds from enjoying it, it is advised that you move the feeder.

If you really want to attract bluebirds to your bluebird feeders, you should add mealworms. Bluebirds actually LOVE mealworms.  This food is most likely to encourage the bluebirds to stay in your area.

It is recommended that you offer no more than 15 mealworms pre bluebird per day. A smart idea is to feed a small amount twice a day, to ensure that the bluebirds get some and other birds do not eat them up. You can buy mealworms from most fishing supply stores and at specialist pet stores.

It is said that bluebirds may loose interest in the mealworms in the winter. There are heated bluebird mealworm feeders, but these tend to be expensive. In winter months, suet is a good food and many practical recipes can be found online. Raisins and similar fruits are good in colder temperatures because they contain sugar and carbohydrates that are going to maintain the bluebirds body temperature.