Bluebird Boxes

[Pygmy]

It's time to clean out the bluebird houses..Actually, I intended to do it last month, but it slipped my mind..( Happens a LOT lately, GRIN)...

It's going to be nice this weekend..I have between 25 and 30 houses that I intend to clean out and evict the white-footed mice that have no doubt taken up residence there..

[growalot]

done....It's oh so wonderful when they leap out of the box at face level...lol

[landtracdeerhunter]

Don't have one, but would like to build some. The one shown on the DEC video looks simple enough to make.

[airedale]

A few years back I reached in to clean out one of mine and had a Flying Squirrel bail out, startled the heck out of me for a second.

Al

[Pygmy]

A few years back I reached in to clean out one of mine and had a Flying Squirrel bail out, startled the heck out of me for a second.

Al

I haven't found a flying squirrel yet, but one time I decided to clean some out in the fall and found a yellow jacket's nest in one..Since then I wait until COLD weather..

Actually I have found that it's a waste of time to clean them out in early winter..The mice just move right back in and you have to clean them out in the early spring again anyway..

[Pygmy]

done....It's oh so wonderful when they leap out of the box at face level...lol

Yeah, growie, I experience that every year..I have mice running up my arms, jumping out of the boxes on my shoulder, head, etc. Fortunately I don't have a RODENT phobia.

A friend of mine does...He's a big, macho, kick-a** type guy, too..We sat together in an enclosed tower stand one time and a deer mouse started scampering around inside the blind..

He jumped up and screamed like a girl !! I thought the big galloot was going to bail out of the tower blind before I managed to catch the mouse and toss him out...hehehehehe...

[josephmrtn]

I HATE opening a cabnet or some hing and having mice jump out!!! and no i dont scream...

[Lawdwaz]

One year in we were hunting elk in Colorado and sleeping on the ground in a wall tent. The place was LOADED with mice. They would go through the kitchen box, rumble in & out of the pots and pans etc. The last straw was when they spent the night scampering across my pillow all night. No kidding.

I spent the remainder of the hunt (3 or 4 nights) sleeping in my truck..............................................

Edited March 10, 2013 by Lawdwaz

[josephmrtn]

shoulda brought a cat!!! prob woulda been 5 lbs heavier when you went home