Wildlife Gardening: Nature's beauty is not always at eye level!!!, 1 by Stelco

Stelco wrote:
They “tolerate” people. About 20 yards is the limit for mine. But, there are exceptions. If you open a nest box they often play “if I can’t see you, you can’t see me”.

I clean out my boxes every fall (when I remember). I add fresh pine needles a couple of inches deep and make sure that drain holes are open. I don’t believe that they don’t bring in nesting material and I know that they bring in live blind snakes to reduce parasite load in their nests and/or roosting boxes.

Here are the house plans:
http://www.50birds.com/D50BH6.htm

Sorry about dinner waiting in the photo. The other chunk of stuff is a “pellet” that they regurgitate made up of non-digestible bones, fur, feathers . . .