Build Your Own Birdhouses and Feeders: From Simple, Natural Designs to Spectacular, Customized Houses and Feeders

Dan R. Kunkle, Wildlife Activist 08/2002
This book offers you plenty of projects, from basic bluebird boxes to log cabins, covered wagons, and pagoda feeders.


Book Description
Create an amazing range of birdhouses and bird feeders with these easy-to-follow woodworking designs. Step-by-step illustrations will inspire the novice woodworker, while more complex projects will challenge those with more experience. Designs range from simple wooden boxes to magnificent bird mansions suitable for all outdoor spaces, from large gardens to the smallest balcony. There are plans and projects for birdhouses, nesting boxes and feeders with a list of the best materials and notes about where to locate the finished project for best results. Build Your Own Birdhouses and Feeders includes: - Clear step-by-step illustrations for each stage of building - Exploded and technical diagrams in color for each project - A wide range of projects and designs from the very easy to the ambitious The 25 designs include: - Pagoda dovecote - Old fashioned clapboard house - Victorian townhouse - Hollow log birdhouse - Thatched cottage - Sailboat - Miami style art deco - Wild west saloon


About the Author
John Perkins is an architectural design technician with a background in pottery, silversmithing and model-making as well as furniture and product design. A contributor to leading woodworking magazines and author of several books, John is a technical and advertising consultant for leading tool companies.


Excerpted from Build Your Own Birdhouses and Feeders: From Simple, Natural Designs to Spectacular, Customized Houses and Feeders by John Perkins. Copyright © 2000. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Introduction There are two good reasons for encouraging birds to feed in your garden. One is to help counteract the effect that modern urbanization has had on their natural habitats and feeding habits, in a small way redressing the balance so to speak. The second is purely selfish, and embraces the enjoyment, pleasure and relaxation that watching their colorful rituals, displays, and antics can bring to the keen birder, gardener, or householder alike. But, to encourage birds in your garden, you must offer them something in return, their most obvious needs being food and water. If you can also provide somewhere safe for them to raise their young or shelter when the weather's bad, then they will learn to feel safe in your garden. This book is intended for those practical people who enjoy creating something just a little different: feeders, bird tables, and nesting boxes that will help you to introduce you to a new and worthwhile interest, while at the same time involving you in a fascinating and rewarding pastime. The projects range from basic and simple feeders to decorative and more ornate birdhouses. Each is designed to enhance your garden or yard, each animated by the birds' natural ability to fly.


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A practical collection of 25 bird feeders and birdhouses anyone with basic woodworking skills can build. Included are plans, drawings and instructions as well as essential background on birds' needs and behavior.


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