Songbird Essentials SESC78162 Nest View Bird House

We loved this product. No luck the first year because we had the house in the wrong location (sunny and too much people traffic). Finally we found a spot on the north side of the house on a second floor bedroom window that worked the second year. The bird family set up home, preparing the house with sticks. Soon we had 5-6 eggs. We were able to watch the baby birds get feed, etc. We needed to stand very still to watch. Sometimes as we approached the window the parent bird would fly off but would soon come back if we stood like statues and didn't move. Amazing experience! We just purchased our second house and it seems a bit better quality than our last. To clean, simply unscrew back panel, empty and re-screw on panel. The birds all leave the house by middle summer. Highly recommend!

Unfortuneately the suction cups wouldn't even hold the bird box on the window empty (thank goodness no birds ever moved in). It consistently lost suction and fell to the ground and then after going through various weather changes the wood expanded and contracted and the entire thing fell apart. I am left with a bunch of pieces of wood I could put back together with wood glue but then it would just fall off the window again anyhow so why bother?

We live in the country and have birds nests *all* around our home. However, this house ahs been haning on our front window since early spring and no birds have moved in. We have three children under 6 and so I assumme there is just toom uch noise for the birds to feel safe. Disappionted as I wanted the kids to be able to see baby birds in the nest... maybe we'll try another window away from the main action in the house. On the plus side the house mounts well and is very sturdyly aattached!