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Originally Posted by gg
We put out a bluebird house and ever year have had 3 broods of babies born. But a strange thing happened to the last batch of eggs last month. We checked and the eggs were gone. My husband removed the nest (I do not know if you are to do this but he did). He brought the nest into the house and it was made of pine straw...I said do not throw that away take it outside and they can use the straw again. When he started to rip it apart we found in that tiny nest an 18 inch rat snake thicker than a pencil wrapped inside the nest. YUK I can not believe he got inside that tiny house and ate those eggs...has anyone else had this happen.
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Yes, sadly, I had that happen in the Jacksonville FL . I set up a bluebird house in a tree and it was actually the newly hatched chicks that disappeared one night - and we do have black snakes around here. Sorry it happened to you. Hopefully you can try the metal idea.