Bird HousesRustic Vintage Amish Wicker Amish Bird Houses

Small songbirds: wrens, chickadees, titmice and nuthatches. Owners write about wrens moving in, sometimes within the first day.

1 1/8 inches across. It is small on purpose, to keep predator birds out.

The bottom is wood, held on with screws. Remove the screws, take the bottom off, clean out the old nest, and screw the bottom back on.

The four screws that fasten the bracket to the birdhouse bottom. The four screws or bolts for your post, fence, tree or wall are not included, since they depend on what you are mounting it to. The wall plate is about 2 inches tall and 2 5/8 inches wide, which fits a 4 x 4 post.

Yes. Give it a coat of clear spray polyurethane before it goes up, then again about once a year. The cold does it no harm.

Any time of year, and January or early February is a good time.

Yes, and many owners do, on a shelf, a mantel, a coffee table or in a sunroom. Optional protective feet keep it off a finished surface.

Yes. An engraved solid brass plate is optional on the birdhouse page, and it goes on the side of the house.

It measures 5 1/2 by 8 inches and 6 1/2 inches tall: a cottage shape with a peaked solid wood roof, a wood perch peg under the entrance and woven walls, in Plain, Wine & Blue or Wine & Green trim.

It is handwoven in an Old Order Amish home along the Iowa-Missouri border and signed on the bottom by the family member who made it.