Lighthouse Birdhouse

You put out unique birdhouses and decorative birdhouses, like the Lighthouse Birdhouse to enhance your yard and garden décor. The function of these garden décor birdhouses is also to bring indigenous cavity nesting birds into your garden, filling it with song and color. Now if you where wanting to house a variety of different species in your decorative birdhouses and all you seem to see are House Sparrows, there is a good reason for that.

Of all the songbirds in North America the House Sparrow in the most abundant and covers a larger area of the planet than any other bird. Putting up more than 1 or 2 wood birdhouses or placing them out of sight of each other will not to the trick. You will have to discourage the sparrow from nesting in your Lighthouse Birdhouse by keeping an eye on the wood birdhouses and when a sparrow starts a nest you must remove it. This may take doing more than once but it will discourage them over time. With the sparrow’s aggressive nesting behavior and adaptability to humankind their population has grown to over 150 million giving the species an unpopular status among many birding enthusiast.