A few custom bird houses

Nice, very nice indeed!!! Like the different places of “worship” ...

-- "A perfect garden is just a garden to be in-perfection. Mornings to work on it and evenings to pause and look at it." Southeast Michigan, Zone 5a/5b

I like #3 the best…..........looks quite nice up against that Japanese pogoda

-- Central northish Ontario

these are awesome.. my favourite is #3 as well although the others are great also.

Love your work and your vision.

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

Beautiful work. Lucky birds.

-- the day you quit learning is the day you quit living.

Different! Like #3 TOO.

bob

-- I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. Alberta Canada Zone 3A or maybe 3B

Nicely done! Good workmanship!
What a “focus” point!!!

-- Eklectic, Follow my Bliss, South East Ontario 5a

Very nice work on all of them , they look great !!

-- John in Cranbrook , http://www.extremebirdhouse.com http://community.webshots.com/user/cranbrook2

Very nice.I like them all :-)

-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more

excellent, just excellent to be able to build these!

-- Toronto, Ontario

I love your bird houses, I’m always looking for different homes for the birds.

-- Louise Edgwood,Md.

Thanks, Louise.

They all started because when I was cruising one of the local lumber shops, I noted some 12 inch unfinished pine for less than $1 a foot. I thought, well, I just have to have a few of those.

I find that many of the bird houses on the market are made for indoor decorations and not practical use. They tend to disintegrate within a year or so outside, hence I thought these heavier boards would do the trick. I did not finish them at all, but will leave them to turn gray with age. I heard that they are more likely to be used this way.

-- jroot

Just the other day, I finished yet another bird house. I was originally planning to put it up in the crotch of a split cedar tree, but it was too high to get the width I needed. I found another spot, though. There are 5 compartments. We discovered that we have bluebirds here, so this was built with them in mind. Apparently, they like to go down into a box for nesting, hence the pseudo two storey building. I was also originally planning to use stained glass, like MsDebbie’s, but alas, the spruce I had available kept splitting, so that idea was quickly shelved.

-- jroot

very nice like the little trees :)

-- Xploreorganics, 5b Canada, LFD 06-20

Nice looking bird house!!

-- "A perfect garden is just a garden to be in-perfection. Mornings to work on it and evenings to pause and look at it." Southeast Michigan, Zone 5a/5b

this turned out beautifully!!

Love the design, the colour, the location. Excellent job

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

I missed this posting somehow.Great job Jroot.Looks very inviting.Hope you get some bluebirds :-)

-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more

Jroot, those are beautiful..the first one looks like a greek orthodox church I see on my way to work. Very nice! You have a wonderful talent

-- Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. ~Mrs. C.W. Earle, Pot-Pourri from a Surrey Garden, 1897

Thanks. I enjoyed making the last one, but it really took a lot of time. It would have been nice if I could have used the stained glass, but where it is located now, it probably wouldn’t have made a huge difference. Where I originally wanted to put it, would have been spectacular. Maybe I’ll make another one yet with the glass windows. I just got another idea, ... as I was typing this note. Good thing you wrote, as it gave me another inspired moment.

-- jroot