Birds and bees: new tenant after rejection by mason bees

Story and photo by Jo Simmons

We built this little house for mason bees three years ago. The front was open and it was filled with tubes. The mason bees were not interested.

So when we saw a chickadee checking out the frontless house (we’d taken out the tubes) we decided to turn it into a chickadee house.

This happened the same week! So exciting!