Photo by jans canon Heated Birdbaths Most birds will certainly hang around your place during winter if you have put up a bird feeder. However, you will get a greater diversity of Aves if you are to set up heated bird baths as well. For most natural water resources during winter are frozen and many [...]
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Bagel Bird Feeder
The bagel bird feeder is another peanut butter bird feeder like the pine cone bird feeder my wife and I made with my son a few weeks ago. It’s any easy to make bird feeder so it is one of the great bird feeder projects for kids. So let’s get started with our bird feeder [...]
Full Story »Making a Platform Bird Feeder For Grandma
My sons and I decided to make their grandmother a platform bird feeder for her birthday. She has been looking for a replacement hopper bird feeder because a squirrel managed to destroy her old one. The squirrel was stealing bird feed using it’s paw to raise one of the clear plastic sides that hold the [...]
Full Story »Feeding Wild Birds in Winter
Given the snow and the freezing temperatures during winter, it is evidently a difficult time for many birds to survive. The cold snap often gives birds enormous difficulties in searching for both food and water. Since temperatures during winter season are often below the freezing point, birds’ food sources are mostly hibernating or covered with [...]
Full Story »Bird House Hole Sizes and Dimensions
Photo by Moonlightbulb Bird House Hole Sizes and Dimensions I’ve put together this handy list of bird house dimensions. It’s a combination of several different books and internet lists that I have collected over time. When building bird houses the most important dimensions are the hole size, hole height above the floor of the birdhouse, [...]
Full Story »Keg Birdhouse
Keg Birdhouse I found this drawing of a birdhouse made from two nail kegs in the August 1915 issue of Popular Mechanics magazine and had to share it with my readers. It amazes me some of the materials that people have used for their birdhouses even in the early 1900′s. I’ve seen birdhouses made of [...]
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