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What do Bluebirds Eat?
Mountain Bluebird (male)
Sialia currucoides
It depends on the time of year as to what a Bluebird eats. In the summertime a Bluebirds' Favorite foods include Grasshoppers, Crickets, ground beetles, and caterpillars. They also love spiders.
In the winter for those who don't migrate, they enjoy all kinds of berries. The insect population disappears when cold weather sets in, but you can buy meal worms at your local pet store to supplement their diet if you wish
Berry-Producing Plants
For Summer
Trees
American Holly
Black Cherry , Cascara Buckthornr Crabapples European Mountain Ash Kousa Dogwood , Pin Cherry Red & Mulberry Mulberry
Shrubs
Autumn Olive Blackberry & Raspberry
Blueberry, Chokeberry Chokecherry, Dogwood shrubs Honeysuckle, Russian Olive Shadbush, Snowberry Viburnams
Vines
Grape Greenbriar Honeysuckle
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Berry-Producing Plants
For Winter
Trees
Flowering Dogwood
Hackberry, Hawthorns
Madrone, Mountain Ash
Red Cedar, Sour Gum
Western Red Cedar
Shrubs
Bayberry, Blackhaw
Cotoneaster
Highbush Cranbery
Mistletoe, Multiflora Rose Sumac
Vines
Bittersweet Japanese Honeysuckle
Moonseed, Pyracantha
Birginia Creeper
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