His throat, breast and side are rust orange and his belly is white. The female coloring is duller and more gray. In summer, bluebirds eat insects, such as grasshoppers, crickets, and beetles. In winter they eat berries. The dogwood trees, so plentiful in this area, provide one of their favorite foods.
Some bluebirds migrate south.
They have 1 to 3 broods with 3 to 5 pale blue eggs per brood. Incubation lasts from 13 - 15 days. The young fledglings leave the nest 16 - 20 days after hatching. The young often remain near the parents and may feed later broods. Winter Bluebirds are not strongly migratory.