Texas Gardening: Bird question but need local help, 1 by konkreteblond

konkreteblond wrote:
I just thought of something else...bird houses/nesting boxes. I put out a little wren house before but red wasps built their nest in it! Every time I moved it the wasps would find it so it finally ended up on the ground somehow and then guess what found it...fire ants!! Is it possible to put out any little houses (besides my decorative ones) that birds will use and wasps will not??

And this reminds me that I do have barn swallows that come in the spring! I was SO excited last year when they made a nest on my porch. Normally they make nests at the 3 neighbor's and then they all come and sit on my gutter and hang out. My cats love it!