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in e irM UcrciM UtNr, March 7, ZOO! Page 13 ird houses will entice many kinds of birds to sing in your yard It is not too early to think about putting up a bird house or nest shelf in the next month or two. W inter days are grow ing longer and resident birds will start getting ready to mate and nest. Dozens of species of birds will use artificial nest boxes or shelves and may be enticed to set up residence in y o u r yard. Bird houses or nest shelves can be made of simple materi als or purchased at local retail ers. First, you need to decide what kind of birds you want to attract. Then make or buy a bird house suited for that species. Each type of bird pre fers a different type of nesting habitat. Robins and phoebes will not nest in enclosed nest boxes. They prefer a sheltered plat form or shelf. Wrens, bluebirds and tree sw allow s are com m only at tracted to single unit, enclosed bird houses. W rens prefer nest boxes close to shrub cover, whereas blue birds and tree swallows choose fairly open ar eas with few trees and shrubs and open area beyond that, such as along a fencerow. No matter how sim ple or elaborate, the most important features are safety, the location of the birdhouse and the di mensions and shape of the house and entrance. A good bird house has venti lation holes in the top and drainage holes in the bottom; doesn’t have a perch by the en trance (perches encourage predators, such as cats); is easy to clean (bird houses should be thoroughly cleaned once a year to remove last year’s nest materials and to prevent nest parasites). Choose the position and lo cation for each bird house carefully. Face the entrance hole to the north or east to pre vent the birds from overheating if the summers are hot. Put no more than one house per tree for the same species of bird. Don’t put bird houses near bird feeders. Mount bird houses on metal poles rather than nailing them to trees or hanging them from limbs. Houses on metal poles are less vulnerable to preda tors. Use no more than four nest boxes per acre for any one species of small bird such as wrens or chickadees and no more than one house per acre for any one kind of larger bird such as robins. Oregon Departm ent of Fish and Wildlife offers free inform a tion about building bird houses. Write or call ODF&W Informa tion and Education Division, P.O. Box 59, 2501 SW First Ave., Portland OR 97201; 503- 872-5264, ext. 5528. Also, check for books on bird houses at the public library, contact an Audubon group or your county OSU Extension Service office for more information. 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