Thank you! I'm saving this info so I can do this sometime in the Spring, whenever the weather decides to warm up :) !! pkponder ...do you have a picture? Would love to see it. I want to include a Birdhouse and a Birdfeeder. My Birdfeeder is very large and I hung it last summer and was still out till recently when it needed seed and found out the thing broke at the top where you take it off to add seed ... so I'm mounting it on a pole and it will be just fine that way. It is VERY heavy so I can't have a tall pole for it. I included a picture of my bird feeder. It is 13 x 13 and has 9 feeding stations, 11lb capacity. I want to have a birdhouse separate but not too far away. Have an idea to put these alongside our ramp ... will look nice with some vines I think. :) Also, I know this bird feeder can be pole mounted because a couple people told me about how to do it. I saved that info and it says The pipe needs to be no wider than 7/8 of an inch. Anyway, looking forward to mounting that and I have to find a nice bird house to also mount on a pole. We have lots of cats around here (including ours that goes outside) and squirrels, so I might have to figure a way to keep them out.

Love it,hope you get a cup and saucer up there with it,that would look so good :) Did you make the bench from a chair or a headboard? I really like it a lot! Everything looks great :)

sharpgirl, I can only share my experience w/ BB. For several years I put up houses built (I thought) to BB specs. No takers. And because I had seen BB on my farm I knew they were around, but I didn't know where they were nesting. Until one day I noticed that the 'fake' hollow owl I had attached to the roof peak of my small barn, had BB's coming and going around it. BB's had pecked a hole in the chest of owl and apparently built a nest inside. This is now the 2nd year that they're nesting there. Their nest is about 15-18 ft. off ground, 100 ft. from a feeder but hidden by a bldg., hole faces South, slightly southeast. BB's perch on barn roof before they enter the hole. Both male and female feed the babies. Area of nest is surrounded by either mowed pasture or lawn. No close trees for 50-60 ft. I overflow a large watering trough (for horse) several times a day and the BB's show up to bathe and frolic in the water, if it's warm outside. So my bluebirds outsmarted me and made their own personalized nest and they must like it cause they've returned this year. Good Luck with attracting your own BB's. PS/I'm in zone 9B Central Fl.

What is a NABA house? If you have martins, bluebirds and swallows, does this mean you have a lot of open area? Is there any woodland? Assuming you have woodland space, you can attract chickadees, titmice, nuthatches, and others but I am not familiar with species in Ohio. Hopefully someone in your area can help with specific species. Chickadees have one brood and have already nested, so that's for next season, but titmice, wrens and nuthatches may have a second. You'll get a lot of advice, this is just my experience. Our best luck with songbird sized bird house placement has been slightly inside the woodland edge. I tested placement right at the woods edge and none we placed in this manner were occupied, but one tree line inside the woods, the boxes were very active. 5-12' off the ground. Birds did not seem to care about height, it was based on me being able to reach them easily. They don't care if it's tree or pole mounted - I personally pole mount for adding snake guards. We have a lot of snakes! The other issue that seems to make a huge difference with the birds was having a low tree or shrub within 6' of the box for the parents to perch on and which babies fledged to for quick cover on their first flight. The denser the better. Bluebirds nest in my woodland placed boxes as well. It's really all the same rules as bluebirds except not as open space. Other species will want more cover close by. On gourds, I hung two in an American beech - perfect bird foliage - for the heck of it, at 3' off the ground and had chickadees use it to my total surprise.