How to Make a BirdBox or Birdhouse
Lets Make Beautiful Birdhouses for Birds {How to Build a Birdbox and Birdhouse Plans}
How about building a beautiful Birdhouse for our little winged friends. On this page you will find 
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Easy to Build Bird Boxes and Bird Houses
Easy to understand diagrams, talks about birdhouse types for each birds, basic construction to how you can build your birdhouse to blend into your surroundings. This is easily the best how to build a birdhouse book out there.
Building a birdbox or Birdhouse
What you need
Making your own birdhouse needs minimal joinery skills, making this an excellent project for getting the kids involved in, and makes an excellent introduction into wood crafts and joinery skills. You also do not need a workshop full of state of the art machines.I get asked a lot to go into the local schools and helping the kids to make simple bird boxes. We have great fun creating these birdhouses, and by using simple plans and dimensions, make this activity not only fun but a great learning tool for the children. that help to keep their feathered friends safe and warm through the cold winter months.
We have great fun, and have got some fantastic ideas, like recycling these terracotta plant holders into cool birdhouses
See how to make this HERE
Saw
Hammer
cordless Drill
Strightedge ruler
Good selection of exterior grade nails/screws
and some felted protection for the lid or we usually ask for the kids to bring in otherwise wasted inner tubes from their bike wheels
Dimmensions of the Holes for a Birdhouse
what size does the birdhouse hole need to be?
If you are trying to attract different types of Birds to your garden, then you can consider making the entrance holes to these dimensions. this means that if you choose to make the entrance smaller this will only house the smaller birds as they can only fit through.
Basic Dimensions for Birds
25 mm for coal, marsh and blue tits
28 mm for great tits and tree sparrows
32 mm for nuthatches and house
A starling sparrows box needs to be 25-30% large with an entrance 45 mm across.
Building a Birdhouse - some dos' and dont's
- make sure the wood you use is at least 2cm thick, this helps with insulation and warping or splitting of the wood
- With the excpetion of the entrance hole the other dimensions are only a guide
- Birds do not like wobbly boxes, so make sure yours is securely affixed to the tree, fence
- Position of the birdhouse needs to be carefully thought of. Make sure it is not too exposed to the elements, ie. the entrance not in the wind, or facing upwards, so rain could get in
Height generally 2 meters to meters in height off ground level, thinking about predators who could access it (cats etc)
- If making more than 1 box, make sure there is enough distance between each birdbox, usually 10 meters apart.
Birdbox or Birdhouse - I call it a Birdbox but others call it a bird house
....is it Birdbox or birdhouse?
FREE Birdhouse birdbox Plans
Plan : (C) lisaauch.com
FREE Bridbox Designs - great free pages on how to Make a birdbox
- ideas for making bird nesting boxes houses birdbox nest box wood
Ideas for making how to make a bird box garden swing and scarecrow - Bird Box and easy Birdhouse
Easy to follow instructions and diagrammes - How to make Bird box from a log or thich tree branch
So easy to make this, I love it, and can be made really easy from thick fallen tree branches etc - How to Build an easy Bird box
Printable PDF for making your own Bird Box
Creative Designs for your Birdhouse
Crochet Bird Tutorial
Decorate your bird house how you like and if you know someone who crochets, how about getting them to crochet a bird
Amazing Birdhouses and Birboxes to Buy - A delightful birdhouse for the birdies
Some of the birdhouses available to buy are just gorgeous, I bet your back yard birds will love living in these
We love hearing what our readers have to say, do you have a favourite birdhouse design? let us know it could get featured here
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Have you made your own Birdbox Birdhouse
We have a few bird feeders and a birdhouse, and I tell you, we have birds by the house at all times: cardinals, blue jays, humming birds, and quite a few other kinds of birds, not sure what they are. Also, our bunny lives outside, and he is very good about throwing his food out of the cage and sharing it with any takers, so that helps a lot :) Squirrels and birds love him!! :))
I love DIY projects, and I will certainly try your suggestions :)
From where I come we call that Birdhouse
These are so wonderful to have in the garden.
My children have made me a few and I treasure each one!
Birds would love them at our house.
@purpleslug: Sorry but that did make me laugh
My husband spent a lot of time building one and he was so proud of it. About a week after he nailed it to a tree, lightening hit the tree and split the house in half.
These look like a lot of fun! My grandson would love to make one when he's older.
Some great looking birdhouses. I love the creativity of making great looking bird houses on your own!
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