This is one of the best birdhouses for warblers.

Warblers bring welcome sounds and life to our gardens in the summers. You may have overheard avid birders boasting about having spotted a "Yellow-Rumped Warbler" or an "Orange-Crowned Warbler" on a birding expedition. There are many species of warblers in North America. They have elaborate names that describe their appearance.
Because of its highly specialized habitat and foraging techniques, it was believed to be limited to former natural disaster areas such as sites of forest fires. With the clearing of primeval forests and the subsequent growth of shrubby habitats, the chestnut-sided warbler is one of the most abundant breeding warblers in second growth deciduous woodlands.

Description

The Hooded Warbler is about 4 1/4 inches from tip of bill to tip of tail. The male Warbler's face is yellow and surrounded on all sides by black in the shape of a "hood". The back is olive-brown and the underside is bright yellow. Wing bars and white streaks on the outer tail feathers. The female's hood is restricted to a black curved line behind the eye. The female otherwise is very similar to the breeding male.
The Chestnut-Sided Warbler can be identified by its plain white underparts, greenish yellow upperparts, bold white wingbars, and white eye ring. In the alternate, autumn plumage stage, the chestnut-sided warbler has a yellowish forehead, black eye-stripe, plain white underparts, and a chestnut streak along its sides. The chestnut streak is longer and brighter in males and older birds. It may be missing completly in immature females and first year males.

Feeding

Warbler's are predominately insectivorous, but will eat some fruit. Each bird forages alone. It searches on the underside of leaves for insects. It hops from branch to branch with its tail cocked. The chestnut-sided warbler eats potentially harmful insects. This may benefit farmers as a natural way to control insect populations.

Eggs

The Hooded Warbler's nest is constructed of dead leaves and lines with grass. The nest is placed low in a small tree of shrub. The clutch consists of 3 or 4 brown spotted creamy white eggs. Incubation takes 12 days and the young are ready to leave the nest about 8 days after hatching.
The female Chestnut-Sided Warbler constructs a nest entirely on her own in deciduous trees or shrubs. She also incubates the eggs alone. There are about four eggs per brood and only one brood is reared per season. Both parents care for the young.

Habitat

The Hooded Warbler is primarily a species of the southeast and east-central United States extending as far north as New York and southern New England. The species ranges westward to Illinois in the north to eastern Texas in the south.The Hooded Warbler is found in mature, moist forest with heavy undergrowth. The species is particularly common in wooded ravines and wooded swamps.

Voice

The Hooded Warbler's song is loud and clear, usually with an accented, slurred ending.

This is a neat log cabin bird feeder for warblers.