SKU: 306walk

Chickadees, titmice, wrens, downy woodpeckers and other nuthatches may use this box. This Birdhouse is made of finished pine measuring (16-1/2 inches back board x 5-3/4 inches wide x 7-3/4 inches deep) and has a 4 inches by 4 inches floor, 9 inches inside ceiling, 1 1/4 inches diameter entrance hole located 7 inches above the floor, ventilation openings. This birdhouse assembled with screws fit to pre-drilled pilot holes. Properly sized to shelter White-breasted Nuthatch one of America's favorite backyard birds. Opens easily for cleaning. This birdhouse is handcrafted in California. Each birdhouse is constructed to last. Usually a year around resident, it inhabits deciduous and mixed forests, groves and wooded towns in southern Canada, throughout most of continental United States and northern Mexico. Builds nests of leaves, feathers, hair and bark in natural or abandon woodpecker cavities or birdhouses. Nuthatches are also capable of excavating their own cavities. Lays six to eight, more or less, sometimes as many as ten speckled eggs, which hatch after less than two weeks incubation and young leave the nest in about another two weeks. They help keep tree diseases and insect carriers in balance. Tiny hook shaped claws enable nuthatches to flit dexterously on, underneath, up and down (mostly down) tree trunks and limbs eyeing crannies and crevices sometimes prying loose bark searching for insects, spiders, larva and eggs. In winter they are often seen foraging together or mixed with downy woodpeckers, other nuthatches, chickadees, and titmice and at seed and suet feeders. Sometimes they become accustomed enough to their hosts to take seeds from their hands. Wind Walkers Garden