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Mounting A Bird House

The Quick Mount option for only $4.50 makes it easy to see that Real Bird Homes are the best product and the best value in bird houses.

Raccoons, snakes, cats, fire ants, opossums and other predators have easy access to and often raid the nest in bird houses mounted on wooden posts or trees.

These predators are watching your bird house MORE than you are. They often know that many a tasty meal can be gotten from a bird house.

To these predators a wooden box with a hole in it looks just like the Golden Arches of McDonalds does to humans and they frequently check them for fast meals.

You may think the young birds inside the birdhouse you've been watching flew away but a huge number of these small birds ended up as a meal for a raccoon, snake or other predator. The NORTH AMERICAN BLUEBIRD SOCIETY says:

• Smooth round pipe is probably the best and simplest mounting system to use - 3/4" electrical conduit works well, but any smooth scrap round pipe will also work.

  Coating the pole with grease will also help to keep predators off the box

  Hardware cloth placed under a box helps to prevent snake predation.

  Unless your trail is in an area where raccoons are not present, avoid mounting bluebird boxes on a fence line or on trees. Raccoons are known to walk fence lines and may find your boxes.
   

Real Bird Homes are equipped with a Quick Mount flange designed so that anyone, using no tools what-so-ever, can easily mount the bird home on top of a standard 1" electrical conduit pipe in less than 15 seconds!

The pole our Quick Mount is designed to fit can be purchased at any Home Depot, Lowe's or other building supply store in 10 foot lengths for less than $4.00. Cut it to a length that is 18 inches longer than the desired height of your bird home and install it in just minutes with a heavy mallet.