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: #59900 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-24
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

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.

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 )

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) )

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.

Customer Reviews

Beautiful Book, Great Plans
Perkins begins the book with some backround bird and woodworking information that will be useful for the beginner. He then gets into plans for 19 houses and 7 feeders.

Each project includes color photos of the completed house or feeder - these are not just the figments of a writer's imagination. There are detailed, measured, exploded color drawings of each house. His designs include several different methods of access for cleaning out the houses after each nesting period. I particularly like the "slide" designs - no tools or dropped screws to worry about.

Some of these houses are so pretty, I don't know if I would want to put them out in the yard. I suppose with a little imagination, you could scale his designs to meet the needs of a variety of species. He has a breif, one page chart showing entrance sizes for some birds. He also show "slot" as well as round entrance options on some of his designs. I still keep referring back to Scott D. Campbell's "The Complete Book of Birdhouse Construction for Woodworkers" as a more complete technical reference. (See that review on Amazon.)

Overall, this is a very good book on birdhouses, very inspirational for the imaginative bird "landlord." This book is profusely illustrated with color photos and drawings; it could be a "coffee table" book if you don't get it filled with sawdust!