BIRDHOUSES! are Simple and Awesome (w/ pics and YT video)
Who doesn't love the birds and the bees? Birdhouses are something most people can do to make the world a better place. The mosquitoes and bugs in your yard might not agree with that, but whatever.
First, I apologize to my YouTube followers for re-hashing old material. I'm just always pushing birdhouses on people, I don't know why...
To follow are several videos from YouTube about making simple birdhouses from scraps that I found helpful, maybe some of you will also.
EdibleAcres
Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCznk4o83WjKFCwEZ8th8wHQ
Birds - Time to build them homes and welcome them back
Building Bird Houses and Mason Bee Homes
Edible Acres is a great permaculture resource, and these two videos about birdhouses is something I will put into practice very soon. He even provided a link to a great website where you can learn what size of a birdhouse will attract what type of birds.
Here is a link to one of many lists of common bird house dimensions...
http://www.birdsforever.com/boxdim.html (Screen shot of website)
TheBossOfTheSwamp has a great series of videos showing his methods for building simple birdhouses, and his channel is full of DIY projects for homesteaders and gardeners.
thebossoftheswamp
Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCItDmit6Yy5-hazNSdoDYuA
Homestead Projects. How to build nesting Boxes. Easy To Follow Instructions
Homestead Projects. How To Build Bird Houses - Caring for the flock PART 2
BIRDHOUSE UPDATE. Caring For Songbirds At THe Homestead
And finally, here is the video I did highlighting these informational birdhouse videos.
I saw that Rufus from @texasboys did a fine job building a birdhouse from a picture on their instagram account.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BU5FH_OADXt/?taken-by=the_texas_boys
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I need to build more bird houses! We have mountain blue birds and they're so neat! They nest in the bird house near our back deck! They come back every year. They made TWO broods this year and now I have about 12 blue birds flying around all the time. I love it!
Yes, this is what I'm talking about, that's so encouraging. That would be really cool to have those blue birds hanging out in the yard. If you do some more birdhouses, I'd really like to see that project with some pics of those blue birds if you can catch them. Just a thought not trying to be pushy. :) Great pic of those baby birds in your last post too.
Thanks! They're gorgeous little things, the blue birds. I feel like they're so unique because they seem to hunt sort of like birds of prey, from above, they hover, kind of like hummingbirds, then swoop down and get their bug! I love them. They've been checking me out lately too, the youngins. They play in the driveway in the evening.
You're right! I should get something together for them so t hey know it's there next year. Something I need to talk into account are cats. We're going to have to raise the current house, and future houses up higher so we don't have casualties from the cats.
The birds in that pic on my post were Brewer's Black Birds. I blogged about them a while back! If you're interested: https://steemit.com/homesteading/@farmstead/brewer-s-blackbirds-aka-crap-nuggets-nature-on-the-farmstead-4
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