Well just say yippie for me. I just got a purple martin bird house. Finally! Now the purple martins are already back in the united states and have selected their nesting sites, having babies and all that stuff you want purple martins to do in your yard, but I have always wanted a bird house [...]
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Purple Martin Bird Houses
Posted in Backyard Birds, Bird Houses, Bird Species, Birds, Habitat, Wildlife on June 1, 2009 | Comments Off
Dove Shelf
Posted in Backyard Birds, Bird Houses, Doves, Habitat on January 7, 2009 | Comments Off
I ran across this dove shelf plan at LumberJocks blog and am just taken by it. I’ve seen and built a few different styles of nesting shelves, but this one is a cakewalk to build. WayneC. the author and creator of the piece, states that he built the shelf to replace a wire plant shelf [...]
Bluebird Boxes and Houses
Posted in Bird Houses, Bluebirds, tagged Bird Houses, Bird Watching, Bluebirds, wild birds on February 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A bluebird couple has been visiting me every morning for the past few days. Every day at the same time they come in and inspect my bird houses. I have up four that are appropriate for them, and only one that is made for a chickadee and not a bluebird. Of course the chickadee house [...]
Spring – Time for Bird Houses
Posted in Bird Houses, Bluebirds, tagged Conservation, wild birds on February 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Spring is here, or at least almost here being February, but it’s still time to put up bird houses. I’m planning my placement strategy as thoroughly as any serious general would. As I have mentioned, this house I am living in is relatively new to me and I still haven’t got a wild variety of [...]
