Product Description

Local songbird populations are rapidly declining, and food, shelter and safe nesting areas are urgently needed. This remarkable book is packed with great ideas plus all the woodworking drawings and howto information needed for hobbyists and birders who want to build attractive birdhouses, feeders and nesting boxes that will attract birds.

Build Your Own Birdhouses and Feeders features a wide range of designs suitable for all skill levels and space limitations, from a very easy box feeder for a small balcony to the challenge of a magnificent bird mansion for a large garden. The 25 projects appeal to a variety of tastes, ranging from a traditional Victorian townhouse, to a tonguein-cheek Wild West saloon, to a medieval tournament tent.

Each project includes:

• Detailed designs with acolor photo of the finished item
• Easy-to-follow instructions and step-by-step illustrations
• Enlarged and technical diagrams in color
• List of recommended materials
• Advice on choosing a location for best results.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #90750 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-24
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .39" h x 8.29" w x 12.02" l, 1.36 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

Review
If you enjoy woodworking and birds, this book offers you plenty of projects. (Dan R. Kunkle Wildlife Activist 200208)

A helpful how-to book... plenty of photos for illustrations and drawings showing cutting and building techniques. (Linda Turk Thunder Bay Chronicle-Journal 20041010)

Step-by-step instructions and photos... information on encouraging birds to visit... will be equally at home as fanciful decorations. (Country Accents 2009)

You will soon find yourself building a variety of shapes and sizes to make your backyard and perfect resting place. (Terry Peters North Shore News (North Vancouver) )

Step-by-step illustrations, creative touches and good basic bird-friendly designs for the do-it-yourselfer, the bird lover and the woodworker. (Lois Cooper Muskoka Today (Gravenhurst ON) )

Absolutely fun... one of the best of the many birdhouse books available. (Barb Siddiqui WoodCentral.com )

This book is absolutely fun. (Barb Siddiqui WoodCentral.com )

To share with children or beginning woodworkers, this is one of the best of the many birdhouse books available. (Barb Siddiqui WoodCentral.com )

Country Accents 05/2004
Step-by-step instructions and photos... information on encouraging birds to visit... will be equally at home as fanciful decorations.

Linda Turk, Thunder Bay Chronicle-Journal 10/10/2004
A helpful how-to book... plenty of photos for illustrations and drawings showing cutting and building techniques.