Re: What can I do to attract bluebirds to new NABS nesting boxes?

After a little research, I have come up with a few suggestions.  Please 
note that because I have never personally attempted to attract Bluebirds, I 
have never actually tried these methods.
        1. Try attracting the bluebirds to your area with food.  They can 
be attracted to houses with mealworms or with a mixture of peanut butter 
and cornmeal.  For the more long-term approach, try planting blackberries, 
bayberries, honeysuckles, Virginia creeper, red cedar, wild grapes, 
pokeberries, or sumac.  You might also try adding plants that attract the 
insects that bluebirds enjoy namely grasshoppers, crickets, katydids, and 
beetles.
        2. Try attracting the bluebirds with appropriate setting.  
Bluebirds enjoy fences, wires and low trees to sit on and hunt insects 
from.
        3. Provide good nesting material.  Bluebirds use dried grasses, 
pine needles, weed stems, fine twigs, hair, and feathers.
        These are my suggestions, but please keep in mind that usually 
birds wait a year after a house has been set up before they nest in it.  
Also, bluebirds begin breeding in March, so it may be too late for this 
year, but not too early to plan for next year.  Don't loose faith, they 
will come eventually if your area is right for them.  Good luck!

                                     -Marcy LaViollette