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This works for Woodpeckers too, fill the box tight with wood chips and they will
take out what they don't want..


Andrew Longtin
New Hope, Minnesota
ALongtin *at* worldnet *dot* att *dot* net

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Don Wilkins wrote in message <380bdf45.8186333@news.wcta.net>...
|On Thu, 14 Oct 1999 05:38:36 GMT, lynda_mccormick@hotmail.com wrote:
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|>Maybe it's the shape?  Or location?  I was thinking that they might
|>like a box placed on a tree stump instead of a pole.  Any ideas?
|
|I have had success with wb nuthatches as follows:
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|l. Conventional bluebird house on metal pole.
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|2. Conventional bluebird but I take the thin end of a wooden shingle
|and close off the entrance hole by stapling the piece of shingle over
|the hole on the inside of the box. The hole is clearly visible but the
|only thing that is going to get inside is a bird that is capable of
|pecking out the soft cedar.
|
|This one is a low maintenance box because the shingle keeps the
|riff-raff out and you can tell at a glance if there is any action.
|
|3. Build bluebird box where the front is a piece of slab wood with
|bark attached.
|
|4. I have not done this (yet) but any of the above but stuff the box
|with coarse sawdust so they need to clean out a cavity.
|
|I still can't get the rb nuthatches to use a box.
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