I normally get the bird house out there for a theme. I just like the look of them. I have just the tiniest one that came on a fan Trellis. One year we noticed those small tiny birds in there. I think they were brown. I love that. I really should sit out there and enjoy them more. When I am out potting and weeding I am sure I will see more of them. This Trellis was against the house in my little patio area.

With other decorative ones say a Hat with a hole in it, what kind of bird will nest in it?

Pictures are okay, if you want.

I've had wrens nest in my decorative bird houses but...they sing ALL the time and they pooped all over my deck! So from now on I plug the birdhouse hole with a cork!!

I don't put decorative bird houses outside because they don't weather well. I do use real bird houses, homemade ones, and there are chickadees in them every year. Sometimes I have to put a new roof on them.

Love chickadees and watching the parents work so hard to feed the babies, then watching the babies leave the nest. It's a job well done.

my wrens have been known to nest in a grocery bag hanging on ahook in the shed!... I made some PVC pile birdhouses long time ago and the chickadees nest in them out back in the pines....gonna make some more and make them a lot shorter this time... those poor little things gotta work HARD to fill up the bottom of that pipe!!!...

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I have chickadees and bluebirds both than nest in special kind of house made for bluebirds. An eastern Phoebe nests on the ledge of my porch every year and makes the porch a mess. Carolina wren nests in anything! I have found then in a half milk carton, on top of my woodpile, on a shelf - all of these things are in my carport.

I have chickadees in a few houses, and then our starlings that nest every year in the hole on the foundation that DH put a facade around.
(Thanks again to the poster who finally ID'd this bird for me!)

The birdies never seem to nest in any of my decorative or plain birdhouses. They seem to like crevices it the roof eaves of our house and garage, and the trees, of course!
cotontail2...that photo of the bird sticking his head out of the wall with the fake house front
makes me laugh!

I only have one tiny deco bird house, but the paper wasps love it so no birds will go near it. I have to chase the wasps out every year. We have several broken off pine trees (tops out of planted pines) and we have been slow getting some of them cut down. One about 50' from the house has several woodpecker holes in it & a pair of blue birds built their nest in it. They are really, really busy feeding those babies right now. Had to fight with a pair of house finches earlier this spring...they were determined they were going to build a nest over either our front or back porch light...NOT!
Those are too close to the doors for a mess to be there!

cotontail, thats a great pic...

What a cute idea, cotontail!

I'm a big meany with our birds and make them live in the forest! When DH made me my big birdhouse last year I had him plug the hole so they couldn't get in. I don't want the mess and responsibility. We feed the birds year-round tho so have a lot of them around. I'm sure they live in hollow trees or somewhere safe as they seem to be thriving in spite of our cold climate.

Cute cottontail.
toots, I like that. What a great idea. Hole saw for the hole? or drill. Easy enought to paint I am sure.

sorry all commentors I took so long to come back. . computer is acting up just when I am learning how to do a few things.

I have a family of purple finches in my Gourd bird house in my spruce.

I have three decorative bird houses and have never had any birds nest in them...

I have tons of birds eating off of my feeder, but they never want to set up camp in my houses.