Just in time to meet our February goal, we finished making the screech owl house and even hung it up in the tree. It was also completed just in time for me to grab a picture before the sun completely went down, though it was a little too dark for a decent picture. I’m questioning whether it was done just in time for any owls to find it this season, but I’ll just cross my fingers.
My husband is making a second one for our yard (I read somewhere that it’s good to hang two up), and he’s also making one for a silent auction at our school’s big fundraiser next weekend. And friends from our neighborhood put in a request as well when they saw him putting it together this afternoon. Ok, little owls, now it’s your turn!
I love seeing owls in the garden…. great if you have a mice or gopher problem, too!
I just requested hubby build one also.
Wonderful! (I chuckled a little, too — wives unite!)
Here’s the set of plans we followed, from the Audubon site:
http://audubonmagazine.org/backyard/backyard0201.html
Good luck!
I do hope you get some nesters soon. That box looks like a perfect starter home.
We have a Great Horned Owl in the woods behind our house, and I love its cries which sound particularly intensely through our bedroom window. (Never yet seen him or her.) I’ve been listening online to the recorded sounds of nestlings in the hopes that I’ll hear evidence of a mated pair producing little owlets this season, so I share your excitement and anticipation.
I hope you get to see your owl and owlets soon! I’ve heard “whoo-whoo-whoo” sounds several times in our neighborhood, but never the source. A few times over the year, as well, we’ve seen a visiting screech owl, so I have hopes that we’ll get a new resident before long!
You’re so good to everyone…..even the screech owls.
donna