The presence of birds in the garden is a wonderful sight and great pleasure can be gained from learning how to recognize regular visitors and become familiar with their habits. For the birds, gardens are necessary for their survival as former areas of natural habitat are being taken over and sometimes, disappearing altogether. It is not difficult to make your garden an attractive and birdfriendly environment. Whether you decide to create a traditional, hand-painted bird box or opt for a different approach by turning an old boot into a birdhouse, this book will certainly provide you with plenty of beautiful and practical ideas.

Detailed instructions, illustrations, and tables for building 7 attractive, sturdy, and genuinely inhabitable birdhouses. Also data on bird habitats and instinct patterns. Bibliography. 3 tables. 63 illustrations in 15 figures.

Projects: Basic birdhouse -- Roof birdhouse -- Bluebird house -- Cube house -- Robin shelf -- Cat proof bird box -- Big house -- Peterson bluebird house -- Nuthatch chalet -- Box birdhouse -- Plug birdhouse -- Hexagon feeder -- Twin gable bird box -- Tall martin house -- Modern birdhouse -- Martin apartments.

This set is based on a popular children's building set we all grew up with. I always thought they would make an excellent basis for building birdhouses and feeders. The plans have been tailored to use inexpensive dimensional cedar available at any home center. Cedar is naturally insect and weather resistant, and the building set design allows for making the feeder and birdhouse shown in the plans, or any design you can build with the logs. Full color, 33 pages including measured drawings, jig plans and a bird chart to help you attract the birds you want to.

Easy-to-follow instructions include diagrams for everything from a one-room house for bluebirds to a forty-two-room structure for purple martins. 56 plates; 4 figures.

Illustrated with more than 175 photos, 12 elegant but uncomplicated projects include a Chickadee House with a concave roof, a Victorian Bluebird, and a Purple Martin House. The designs come with diagrams as well as everything you need to know about construction, from dimensions to tools.