Wooden Bird House, Durable Nesting Box with 2 Predator-Guard Sizes. Bluebird, Chickadee, Titmouse, Wren. Natural Fir to Attract Wild Birds.

This is an attractive and well made birdhouse. I sent one to my cousin for her March 4th birthday, and she just sent a photo with the bluebirds that are now in residence - one sitting on the top of the house. She has watched them go in and out! Today is March 31 and the bluebird pair have already moved in.

I found this bird house to be excellent! Now, you're right, I haven't put it up yet, however, due to its weight, I could tell it was far better than another one we purchased. We had returned the prior one which was rated as one of the best bird houses on Amazon. I disagree with that, it definitely was not better than this one. I'm looking forward to seeing what birds it brings to our yard. Glad we returned the other one and purchased this. The seller is a family-owned business who included a very nice note on how to get more information to bring birds to your backyard. I'm a picky buyer and couldn't be happier with such a high quality purchase!!!

Two days ago my bluebirds arrived and were checking out the old house. Squirrels had chewed the hole opening really big and the roof had a hole in it! I ordered this bluebird house right then and it got here in two days! It’s very well built, sturdy and has a steel guard! I love it and I know my bluebirds will too! They sent me a thank you gift for buying the birdhouse…a hanging bird bath and bird feeder! That was so thoughtful of them! The bluebirds can come on now!

I rated this birdhouse a 4 because I didn't receive the extra ring with screws and on the back of the bird house the hole was missed with a screw. I like the screen in it makes for easy cleaning.

This will go on a post in our yard with other birdhouse. As the others fall apart I will buy more of these. I especially like the easy design for cleaning it after the bird has built a nest inside.

This birdhouse is designed in such a way for easy maintenance. It is well constructed and weather and rot resistent. It will be easy to install with the included wood screws and washers. I also like that it came with an additional smaller metal ring for smaller birds to use, and setup their nests. I expect to use this birdhouse for years to come.

These bird boxes are an attractive scam, in my opinion. The design includes some great features, likely copied from a very good bird nest box that’s been made by Nature’s Way for quite a few years. I know, because I have used that style of Nature’s Way nest boxes successfully outdoors here in New England for years.I don’t object to this company, Emerging Green, imitating that nest box design because it’s a good one. The major problem is that the wood used in these boxes made in China is very flimsy, lightweight, soft wood that is going to rot very fast outdoors. It has very little natural oil content, unlike the solid red cedar used in the Nature’s Way boxes. Those oils are what protect their wood from decay in wet weather, exacerbated by ongoing sun exposure and frequent wide variations in temperature.When you feel the two brands of boxes side by side, the very light weight and flimsy character of the wood in these, called “Chinese Fig Heartwood”, is readily apparent. This is simply not a rot-resistant durable wood to use in outdoor conditions. Far from it.I worked for the Audubon Society for years. I have my own legal governmental permits to care for owls and other birds of prey. I also have many years’ experience in maintaining numerous nest boxes for bluebirds, tree swallows and other cavity-nesting passerine species that would use boxes of this type. So this subject is familiar to me.I’ve attached a few photos showing the caliber of the wood and workmanship in these boxes. I ordered 2 boxes. Both were significantly flawed in multiple ways that would compromise their longevity in outdoor settings. Several places on both boxes were liberally supplied with a filler material that isn’t even one that remains flexible to allow it to last longer in the elements. It’s a dry pasty filler, pale in color in what looks suspiciously like an effort to conceal its use, and of a composition that will quickly crack and crumble and fall out of the places (like large knot holes, even on the edge of the backboard on one box) that it is supposed to repair. Those patches will fail very quickly in an ongoing context of moisture, freeze and thaw alternation, and resulting expansion and contraction of the wood around these poor patches.In another photo, you can see the fate of one of the ventilation holes drilled in the side of a box. The upward direction of the hole to keep out rain is a nice touch. But it is more than defeated by the obvious splitting of the wood that resulted from the incomplete drilling of the hole. It seems that a crude attempt was made to remove wood left undrilled at the top of the hole. But all that accomplished was to split open the side panel of the box, a defect that will expose it to quicker deterioration by weather. It also shows the flimsy character of the wood from which that vertical section pulled away very easily.I don’t know if many of you remember the extremely lightweight model airplanes of the 50’s that were made of balsa wood? Probably not too many! Lol. But this Chinese Fig wood from which these boxes are made reminds me very vividly of the feather-light balsa wood of my childhood that was easily impaled by a fingernail. If you ever handled that balsa wood, you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about!I ordered several new Nature’s Way boxes of similar design to these Emerging Green boxes at the same time I purchased these. I hoped that both would be good choices. But all the proof of their quality I needed was simply to hold one of each brand in my two hands. The cedar of the Nature’s Way box is conspicuously heavy and redolent of wood oils that will make it water-resistant over time when compared to this Chinese Fig wood. The latter has little weight, no smell or feel of natural oils in it whatsoever. That absence of oils, along with shoddy workmanship, would lead me not to expect the Chinese Fig to last more than a single season in sound condition. By contrast, the several Nature's Way cedar boxes birds have nested in here are well into 6-8 years of continuous use and not structurally compromised at all.I should make clear that I have no connections of any kind with Nature’s Way and I don’t mean to imply that theirs are the only good quality nest boxes on the market. This model has some nice features like the hardware cloth platform just above the bottom of the boxes to reduce the risks to nestlings from predacious insects like blowflies. That’s a great extra touch. But there are other cedar (and other rot-resistant wood) nest boxes of many brands on the market that I’m sure are perfectly satisfactory even if I haven’t had personal experience with them.All I want to make clear is that while a number of design features of these Emerging Green brand boxes are very attractive, the fundamental quality of the boxes is simply poor. There is some language on the seller’s site describing the Chinese Fig heartwood as being weather resistant and durable, but my examination doesn’t support that conclusion at all. If you handle one, you will quickly see how insubstantial and soft the wood really is. There is nothing about it to support a claim that it will weather well or resist decay.The final nail in this particular little coffin is that in two boxes out of two, each had at least 3 flaws in its construction that would further contribute to its rapid deterioration. That’s a pretty dismal track record. All the patching suggests that the company is quite aware that the boxes are often, if not always, seriously flawed; and instead of improving their materials and manufacturing techniques, they’re quite content to apply shoddy patches and hope their customers don’t notice the poor quality. They certainly cannot claim ignorance when their workers obviously have the patching putty always ready to hand!Poor quality is bad enough when a seller is asking a relatively high price for the product. But the unmistakeable odor of bad faith that wafts around these sad boxes is offensive to me as a consumer. I perceive a barely-concealed wish to mislead and take advantage of innocent purchasers and I don’t like it at all.It’s your choice about buying these boxes, of course. I only hope to help purchases be made with accurate information about the product, which is unfortunately not forthcoming from the Emerging Green company, despite their fervent claims of great environmental devotion and support for sustainable products. Talk, as we all know, is cheaper than good lumber and skilled labor.

I was very pleasantly surprised by the superb quality of craftsmanship and selection of materials used in its construction! It's easy to clean, too, and allows for excellent air flow. I'll be buying more of these!

Love the quality of this bird house!