Everybody loves mealworms! Many species of songbird that visits our yards, frequent our water features, and eat our seed feeders will switch to a highly insectivorous diet once their eggs hatch. Chicks require incredible amounts of energy to fuel their rapid growth and insects provide the bulk of the fat and protein.
Examples of birds that have visited my yard for mealworms: Bluebirds, of course you will need housing to attract them to the area first. Orioles can be convinced to visit your yard all summer by offering mealworms, the usually stop coming to nectar and jelly after the chicks hatch. Chipping Sparrow, Nuthatch, Cardinal, Blue Jay, Chickadee, Catbird, Thrasher, House Finch, Purple Finch, Yellow-rumped, Tennessee, and Orange-crowned Warbler. If placed on a shallow tray on the ground near brush you might entice Robins and other thrushes as well as a whole host of more secretive sparrows and warblers. The problem with mealworms is keeping the tray filled once the word gets out! I highly recommend "Wild About Birds" a MN DNR publication written by Carroll Henderson of the Non Game Wildlife Department as the bible of backyard bird feeding. It is available at most libraries, wild bird specialty shops or on line from the MN Bookstore. Kelly Larson Bagley/Bemidji Minnesota Eschew Obfuscation! The middle of Nowhere is Somewhere! On Apr 7, 2008, at 4:31 PM, kbotul at frontiernet.net wrote: > I was just woundering if there was a full chart that shows what birds > eat what so if some one can tell me where i can look what i am trying > to figure out is what birds eat mealworms. > > > > > Mike Lehrke > > thank you > > > > > > > > wright county MN. > > > > --- > This mailing list is sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' > Union. Mailing list membership available on-line at http:// > moumn.org/subscribe.html. > ----- > To unsubscribe send a blank email to mou-net-request at moumn.org with > a subject of unsubscribe.
