Making Bird-Friendly Birdhouses: Instructions and Plans for 15 Specific Birds, Including Bluebirds, Wrens, Robins & Owls

When it comes to attracting and safely harboring birds, mindful attention must be made to esnure you have the right structure to attract birds native to your area. Although birdhouses can be purchased in a multitude of sizes, colors, and shapes, many are designed to be ornamental versus functional. Not so for the projects in Making Bird-Friendly Birdhouses!

Inside this book, lifelong birder Mel "Bird Man Mel" Toellner and pro woodworker Matt Maguire walk you step-by-step through more than 15 projects for safe birdhouses that birds find conducive to their natural nesting habitats. Each house is designed with a thorough understanding of the shape and size of the structure, the size and placement of the entrance, and how and where to locate each birdhouse to increase your chance of providing safe and inviting shelters, including a protective baffle design for pole-mounted birdhouses.

Projects include: Bluebird & Tree Swallow Nest Box Chickadee, Nuthatch & Titmouse Nest Box House Wren & Bewick's Wren Nest Box Carolina Wren Nest Box Robin, Dove & Phoebe Nesting Shelves Flicker Woodpecker Nest Box Bat House (Single-Chambered) Bat House (Multi-Chambered) Screech Owl Nest Box Barred Owl Nest Box Barn Owl Nest Box Purple Martin House Duck House, Pole & Baffle Winter Roost