Looks like one vote to use it:

http://nestboxbuilder.com/nestbox-articl...

and see:

http://www.amazon.com/Stovall-6H-Screech...

which is a cedar box

Redwood - doesn't rot, indigenous to the locale so the owls are used to it, looks good. What's not to like?

Edit: Redwood is expensive but owls do not have a sense of smell so rock on with the cedar!

http://www.owlpages.com/news.php?article...

Try using cypress. It's tough.

Have a client wanting me to build a nesting-house for screech-owls here on the Oregon Coast.

I was wondering if building the box out of cedar is the best or will the smell drive them away. I build a lot of bird-boxes,90% cedar but never one for owls and all the on-line info I've read just says unpainted white pine and that wood falls apart too easily here due to the weather.

So, who's the bird-brain with the correct answer?

Thanks!