The ash-throated flycatcher nest box has a 6″ by 6″ floor, a 9″ floor to ceiling height and a 1 1/2″ diameter entrance hole located 7″ above the floor.

 

The great-crested flycatcher nest box has a 6″ by 6″ floor, a 9″ floor to ceiling height and a 1 3/4″ diameter entrance hole located 7″ above the floor.

The phoebe platform for eastern phoebes and Say’s phoebes has approximately a 6″ by 6″ base, approximately a 6″ ceiling, an open front and partially open sides.

The open nesting platform can be used under porches, eaves and other open shelters. It’s possible any of the platform nesters could use this platform, depending where it’s mounted and each individual species inclination.

This platform is named for the largest of the desired backyard platform nesters (unless you include pigeons), but really any of the platform nesting birds including eastern and Say’s phoebes might claim it.

The robin shelter is also suitable for eastern and Say’s phoebes as well as most backyard platform nesters. And you might attract an American robin, one of the most easily attracted backyard birds.

Black phoebes and barn and cliff swallows build mud nests on shear vertical faces under various objects that provide overhead shelter. There are cases where they have been attracted to shelters made specially for them when no others exist nearby.

One shelter has a 2″ by 8″ ledge, approximately a 8″ high gable roof, an open front and partially open sides. Another has a 2″ by 6″ ledge, approximately a 6″ ceiling, an open front and partially open sides.

Usually there is no need for these designs. Their nests adhere securely to vertical faces and they’re quite particular about their nesting places. Nevertheless, even if the shelters don’t attract birds, they make cute ornaments.