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Nesting boxes for owls

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Posted by maden_theshade 8 - Austin (My Page) on
Mon, Oct 23, 06 at 23:03

I'm considering putting up a nesting box for a screech owl in my backyard. I also have bird houses in the yard for wrens and other songbirds. Will I have a problem w/ the owl trying to eat the little birds? I have lots of sparrows, wrens, finches, doves and woodpeckers that come to my feeder during the day.

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RE: Nesting boxes for owls

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I have a screech owl box in my yard along with other birdhouses and the owl doesn't seem to bother them. The hole diameter on my other houses is smaller so the owl can't get in. Owls are nocturnal creatures by nature and aren't active during the day while other songbirds are feeding. I bought my screech owl house at Songbird Garden. They have a very good selection of quality species specific nesting boxes and I am very pleased with the owl house they sent me. I'll post their link...

Here is a link that might be useful: Songbird Garden

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I have an owl box up. So far, flickers roost in it during the coldest days of winter. I have had owls in my yard, but they show no interest in the nestbox. If owls take a few small birds, it's just nature's way. A cooper's hawk took a wren he had trapped in my back patio right out from between my legs. I kid you not!! That little wren ran to me for protection, got right between my feet, and that cooper's hawk went right between my feet and got him.

I have more trouble with hawks because they hunt by day. Owls are nocturnal.

take care,
Michele

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Cool. one or two birds, that's okay. I just don't want them all to disappear! I have the box now, just have to get up that tree now to set it up! Thanks!

  
 

 

 


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