MBTCS News & Updates
Preparing your nest boxes for winter
As the bluebird nesting season ends, fall is the perfect time to prepare nest boxes for winter. Learn how simple maintenance steps—cleaning, repairs, and pest prevention—help ensure healthy habitats for Mountain Bluebirds next spring. Share your own photos and best practices with MBTCS!
Bluebirds soon to return! Are your nest boxes ready?
Mountain Bluebirds return to Southern Alberta as early as the first week of March. Male bluebirds select and lure a partner to a nesting site soon after they arrive. Ideally, nest boxes should be cleaned out and repaired by the end of February in time for their arrival… so do not delay!
A Simple De-nesting Tool to Clean Nest Boxes
MBTCS Trail Monitor Raymond Huel shares a simple invention that helps him with the messy annual duty of cleaning out nest boxes! His objective was to make something that would quickly push the old nest out and, at the same time, reduce the need for a heavy glove.