Screech Owl Houses

Screech owls prefer abandoned woodpecker holes at the edge of a field or neglected orchard. They will readily take to a box lined with an inch or two of wood shavings. If you clean the box out in late spring after the young owls have fledged, you may attract a second tenant--a kestrel. Trees isolated from larger tracts of woods have less chance of squirrels taking over the box.