Building birdhouses is a long and very useful tradition. Step-by-step instructions on how to make a birdhouse with your own hands will help you make it quickly and easily. You can also build houses with children, this is a great way to keep a child busy and accustom him to manual labor.

How to make a birdhouse with your own hands from wood

This is what classic wooden birdhouses look like

A wooden birdhouse is the most durable and reliable house, but the work on its creation is the most time-consuming. But the result can exceed the wildest expectations.

To build a birdhouse out of wood, you will need:

• pine boards 1.5–2 cm thick and 12, 16 and 20 cm wide;
• round rail for the perch;
• electric jigsaw or hacksaw;
• drill;
• Phillips screwdriver or screwdriver;
• sandpaper or grinder;
• ruler;
• marker;
• self-tapping screws;
• cloves;
• hammer;
• paints, varnish and brushes (for decoration).

It is better to take hardwood boards

Manufacturing instructions

How to do:

1. Create a drawing of the future house and mark the wood in accordance with it. First make markings for the front and back walls.

   If you decide to cut the tree before marking, then do it with glasses so that the sawdust does not get into your eyes, and with gloves so that you do not have to remove splinters

2. Then - the side walls.

   These are the optimal dimensions of the birdhouse

3. Mark out the roof. The roof of this birdhouse is gable, you need to make two parts. All parts are cut with a jigsaw or hacksaw.

   The future roof of the birdhouse can be gable or sloping

4. Mark the mounting holes. The boards are quite thick, the center of the holes should be at a distance of 7–10 mm from the edge. In this case, the self-tapping screws will definitely fall into the middle of the end face of the adjacent part.

   Sawing and marking parts should be done sequentially

5. On the front wall, mark out a place for a notch (the entrance to the birdhouse).

   The diameter of the notch should not be less than 4.5 cm, and the height from the bottom edge - less than 20 cm

6. A little lower, mark a hole for the perch, on which the bird sits before entering the house. Using a drill with a drill of the diameter corresponding to the self-tapping screws, drill the marked holes.
7. You can start assembling. First, the pole is attached with a thin self-tapping screw.

   Instead of a perch, you can make a shelf

8. Assemble the walls of the birdhouse, fastening them in any order with self-tapping screws.

   Boards should be tightly fitted to each other.

9. Install the bottom.

   The assembled structure must be checked for strength

10. Assemble the roof and attach the pipe with a self-tapping screw screwed in from the inside.

    Screws or self-tapping screws are used

11. Reinstall the roof.

    The pipe on the roof of the house will look elegant

12. To attach the birdhouse to the tree, attach two loops to the back wall. Decorative details are fastened with nails and narrow rails. For reliability, you can glue them on moisture-resistant glue.

    It is best to attach a birdhouse to a tree with wire

13. Paint the product as your fantasy tells.

    It is best to use unscented paints

By the way, bird houses appeared in Russia for the first time during the time of Peter the Great, and the idea of ​​artificial nests was spied on in Western Europe.

Making a birdhouse out of a box

A cardboard box under the influence of rain can get wet, so you have to additionally cover the surface with laminated paper or varnish.

Such houses are easier to manufacture than wooden ones.

Necessary tools and materials

It is better to take a very dense corrugated cardboard

To create a bird house from a cardboard box, you will need:

• corrugated cardboard;
• glue;
• joiner's tape;
• self-adhesive laminated paper;
• stationery knife;
• scissors;
• ruler;
• marker;
• compass or circle with a diameter of 4.5–5 cm.

Manufacturing instructions

It is easier to make a birdhouse out of cardboard than a wooden one, but the cardboard house will also serve less.

How to do:

1. In accordance with the selected dimensions, all the details are cut out of corrugated cardboard in two copies.

   Such blanks are made faster than wooden ones, but they require no less attention.

2. With the help of glue, identical parts are connected. This is done to increase the strength of the structure. An entrance is cut out in the front wall with a clerical knife, and holes are made in the back for twine, with which the birdhouse will be hung on a tree.

   Finished parts are glued in pairs

3. Body parts are glued together. To increase the strength from the inside, the joints can be glued with carpentry tape.

   The walls are glued together end to end

4. The roof is assembled in two parts. The smaller one is located inside the case. It should protrude 1.5–2 cm beyond the body. For strength, glue the edges of the roof with colored plastic tape.

   Be sure to paste over the roof, in this case, the birdhouse will honestly last until the end of the season

5. To make the house last longer, it must be pasted over with self-adhesive paper or varnished.

   You can entrust the decoration to your child

You can also make a bird feeder. The photo below shows an example of the simplest feeder. While you will be making a birdhouse out of more complex materials, a child can make such a bird feeder.

Tell your child what feeders are for and how important they are for birds in winter

The entrance to the birdhouse should be directed to the south, east or southeast so that the winds do not blow into the house.

This option is the easiest and most affordable.

If you don’t want to mess with wood or cardboard, then in a few minutes you can build a bird house from a plastic bottle. Of course, it will not be as cozy as the options described above, but it will be quite comfortable for the birds in it. Best of all, three- or five-liter containers are suitable for making a birdhouse. But if there are none, then it is quite possible to get by with a standard one and a half liter bottle.

Necessary tools and materials

A plastic bottle is one of the lightest and most affordable materials.

Remove the label

You will need:

• two one and a half liter and one liter bottles;
• about two meters of wire with a diameter of 2 mm;
• scissors or stationery knife;
• dye.

Manufacturing instructions

How to do:

Make sure that the top does not block the entrance

Make holes in the lid. Pull the wire through them and carefully fasten. But it is much more reliable to hang the structure by the body. To do this, make two holes in the roof on the sides of the future entrance, pull the wire through them and attach the case.

Don't forget to use fragrance-free paints

If you are using artistic paints, then you need to varnish the structure on top so that the paints do not wash off from moisture. After the paints have dried, all that remains is to place the treehouse and wait for the tenants.

Such a birdhouse is a great idea for crafts in kindergarten or school

The total height of the birdhouse should be from 30 to 35 cm. The size of the bottom should be made from 10 * 10 to 15 * 15 cm. The distance from the bottom to the notch should be 15–20 cm. The diameter of the inlet (notch) is 30–40 mm. It is worth noting that for different birds, different sizes of entrance will be optimal, so for a starling it is 32–35 mm, for a nuthatch it is 28–30 mm, for a titmouse or a sparrow it is 25–29 mm.

Despite the general opinion that wild birds can eat everything, birds should be fed with caution, since they absolutely cannot eat certain foods.

Ideal for feeding birds

• sunflower seeds;
• millet, millet, oats and wheat;
• unsalted fat and meat;
• dried rowan and hawthorn;
• maple or ash seeds;
• nuts, cones and acorns;
• pumpkin and watermelon seeds.

You can give calcium top dressing, for example, crushed egg shells.

It is strictly forbidden to feed birds with rye and wheat bread, as the yeast in their composition can ferment. Seeds and skins of citrus fruits are not allowed for birds. And also you should not feed the feathered inhabitants with salty, fried, spicy and sour foods.

It is not difficult to make a bird house, especially since modern industry provides a wide selection of materials. Making a birdhouse with your own hands is a fascinating activity. If you and your children enjoy building, then you can provide housing for many of the inhabitants of the park or forest.

Instead of dubious chemical compounds, you can use safe "environmentally friendly" products. To effectively combat caterpillars, beetles and other pests, it is enough to attract starlings to yours. These and some other species of birds are capable of destroying not only insects, but also larvae. The only thing you need is a high-quality, do-it-yourself birdhouse. You will find drawings and dimensions of the structure, manufacturing technologies and useful tips in this article.

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What to make a birdhouse: the best materials

To clarify the dimensions of the birdhouse, a drawing for starlings must be created taking into account the characteristics of habitat in natural conditions. It is recommended to consider the following facts:

• Usually these birds make nests, or use a hollow hollowed out by a woodpecker in a tree. They do not need excessive space, so it is enough to create a small interior space of housing.
• To grow chicks, you will need a lack of drafts, good heat and.
• We should not forget about natural enemies. Sufficiently reliable protection against .
• It is necessary to ensure the convenience of penetration into the birdhouse and free flight.
• Unpleasant odors and vapors harmful to biological organisms should be excluded.
• The design should not have sharp protrusions, defects that could injure the bird.

This photo shows that the birds like the unsightly-looking structure. It is made from natural materials, without varnishes and paints. In terms of its parameters, the housing turned out to be close to natural conditions, which is why the corresponding structures are called “hollow houses”. Manufacturing is not accompanied by unnecessary difficulties. In a suitable block of wood, the core is removed, a hole is cut out for the notch. Boards are nailed from below and from above.

Birdhouse made of wood: in harmony with nature

This material is used most often, since its parameters are well suited for bird housing. However, be aware of the following limitations.

• To get acceptable, it is necessary to use sufficiently thick sheets (from 20 mm or more). Creation of typesetting walls is admissible.
• Moisture-resistant varieties are suitable for outdoor use. These materials are more expensive than standard ones. But products made from them will retain their shape for a long service life.
• Make sure that there are no glues or other chemicals harmful to birds that create unpleasant odors.

Birdhouse out of the box: a turnkey solution

This set contains wooden blanks made using factory techniques. They are distinguished by high quality processing, accurate dimensions. Paints and a special decorative overlay will be useful to create an aesthetic appearance. Assembly instructions will help you perform the necessary steps correctly.

Important! As a rule, such kits do not include tools. They will have to be purchased separately.

This cardboard birdhouse is assembled in just a few minutes. Special cutouts are designed to create connections. The advantages include low cost, speed of installation operations, the possibility of disassembly. To determine the shortcomings of such a model, it is enough to carefully examine the image:

• The absence of an additional layer that protects against moisture.
• Too big for birds.
• Low strength of the connecting nodes.
• Overly modest appearance.

Birdhouse dimensions: what to consider

The questions above are discussed in detail on how to properly make a design using different materials. After a comprehensive analysis, it is not difficult to draw a conclusion about the advantages of natural wood:

• it is an environmentally friendly, inexpensive material;
• it has high strength and good insulation performance;
• it is not too difficult to process it at home with your own hands using the simplest tools.

The last item on this list deserves special attention. Prudent owners make housing attractive to birds of certain species. That is why it is necessary to take into account not only the physiological differences between starlings and tits, their special habits and preferences.

It should be noted right away that it will not work to build such a miniature object according to GOST. Standard reference parameters have not been developed for the birdhouse.

Important! What should be the dimensions of the products, discussed below. The requirements for other parameters are also given there, taking into account the characteristics of the behavior of different birds. You can make individual changes to any drawing. But it is better if they refer only to the aesthetic parameters of products.

Sizes of the birdhouse for starlings

Typical design parameters are shown in the following table:

When the feathered neighbors have mastered a new home, this is removed. After that, the birds will begin to destroy harmful insects.

Sinichnik: drawing and dimensions

The dimensions of the birdhouse for tits are slightly different from the previous version:

Wagtail house: drawing and dimensions

To make the birds comfortable, the following parameters must be considered:

Drawings can be created independently based on the data provided in the table. But we must remember that the legs of the wagtail are better suited for running than for clinging to vertical surfaces. It is difficult for this bird to penetrate into the notch of a standard birdhouse. For her, the design is supplemented with a “threshold”, a special platform with a width of 80 to 120 mm.

How to make a birdhouse step by step

After familiarizing yourself with the theory, you can proceed to practice. This table shows an algorithm that will help you correctly create birdhouses for birds with your own hands. Drawings, consumables, tools must be prepared in advance.

Photo	Action plan and important notes
	For the manufacture of a relatively simple bird house at home with your own hands, such a drawing of a birdhouse with dimensions is suitable.
	In accordance with the data of the design documentation, the dimensions are transferred to.
	Wooden blanks are cut using, or with an electric drive.
	To make it easier for the birds to move, the inner surfaces are roughened. If necessary, special notches are applied in the notch area.
	The hole is made with an electric drill. Use a cutter of the desired size.
	To simplify the assembly process, thin holes are drilled at the marked points, or small indentations are made. Screws are screwed into them. With the help of such fasteners, reliable connections are obtained.
	The assembly is performed sequentially. The workpieces are installed so that in the process of their fastening they do not create additional loads on the structure. For the product from the example, three screws on one connection line are enough. This is not indicated in the photo, but some craftsmen install special inserts in the inner corners. With their help, the shape of the internal space is rounded, making it look like an ordinary hollow.
	In the central part of the lid, a wooden rectangle is fixed with dimensions slightly smaller than the free part of the inner contour of the walls. It is fixed with five screws.
	Check the ease of installation and dismantling of the cover. If necessary, a chisel gives the optimal shape to the details.
	If you create several birdhouses, the garden will be better protected from harmful insects. To extend the service life, the product is impregnated on the outside with specialized compounds.

With the help of this video, you can find out how to make a functional and beautiful birdhouse yourself:

Important! When creating any type of house, it is necessary to seal the gaps. You can use foam for this. Working operations are performed using specialized tools, blades.

How to build a birdhouse with your own hands: step by step instructions

If you buy a ready-made kit, a do-it-yourself birdhouse for birds can be made quickly and accurately. In such kits there are precisely fitted blanks, consumables. Detailed instructions from manufacturers explain how to properly make a birdhouse. But much more interesting are the original designs.

Detailed drawings are not needed for this project. It is only necessary to comply with the above requirements for the size of houses for different types of birds. First you need to find the necessary raw materials. Aspen fits well. In this wood, the core often becomes rotten while maintaining the integrity of the outer layers.
After delivering the log home, it is sawn to the desired size. Remove rotten bark. One of the cuts is made at a slight angle. A roof will subsequently be attached to this end. The slope will automatically remove precipitation. A hole must be made in the workpiece (along the entire length). To speed up the process, use a power tool with a long drill, chisels.
If there is a through hole, even strong wood will not be too difficult to remove.
Further, the sampling of excess material is carried out until uniform walls with a thickness of 20 to 30 mm are formed. Chips and sharp burrs are removed from the inside. The tap hole is drilled using an electric drill equipped with a toothed crown of the appropriate diameter.
A board (20-25 mm) is suitable for the bottom. It is cut so that the excess parts do not protrude beyond the level of the contour of the lower part.
The roof in a stationary version, like the bottom, is fixed with screws. In order not to split the wood, holes are first created with a small diameter drill. How to make a removable version of the roof, described above.

How to decorate a birdhouse with your own hands

Often there are questions, is it possible to paint such structures? The application of impregnations, decorative coatings protects the wood from moisture, harmful bark beetles. This processing allows you to use the same design for many years without repair. But be sure to make sure that the paints do not contain odors that repel birds. On the other hand, they should not be overly bright so as not to attract predators.

With the correct application of original ideas, it will turn out to be an expressive design element from a functional object. How to decorate a bird house is easier to figure out using photos of specific examples.

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Unusual birdhouses (pictured) can be created using relatively complex technologies (1) and improvised materials (2) An unusual option is a good illustration of the widest possibilities of a creative person. Metal linings, like the stones in the previous version, perform certain protective functions. In order not to think about how to paint the walls, you can use ready-made images for decoration, photo printing

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Birdhouses are special houses for birds that adults and children make with their own hands. Previously, birds independently found a place to live, but today many summer residents and animal lovers make feeders and birdhouses from improvised materials. If you want birds to settle in your summer cottage, try to do it yourself creative houses and attach them to trees. Birdhouses are a real salvation for city birds, because in big cities there are practically no hollow trees left.

What to make a birdhouse

The bird house should be suitable for a certain type of birds, be comfortable and environmentally friendly. If you decide to build a birdhouse on your own site, then consider landscape design. Wood is most often used as materials, since materials such as fiberboard, chipboard or thick cardboard do not tolerate moisture and the effects of precipitation. However, they can be used to make seasonal houses. Also, such houses can be installed in corners protected from wind and rain.

Birdhouse drawing

In a similar way, a birdhouse is made of plywood. First, decide on the drawing and dimensions of the birdhouse. Make a marking of all parts on the material. All parts should be of such a size that the bottom is the largest. Don't forget to leave corrections. All sections are ground, and then the parts are glued and fastened with self-tapping screws. Screw the bottom with screws, and the roof so that it is removable. In the future, it will be necessary to carry out general cleaning in the birdhouse.

Creative birdhouse made of cardboard

Start building your bird house by sketching. Carefully cut out all the details and connect with wood glue. You can protect the birdhouse from moisture by varnishing it. To make the house original, decorate it with acrylic paints with the children. Such a birdhouse will definitely last the season and will appeal to small birds.

It's even easier to make a cardboard birdhouse out of a box. Pick up a suitable cardboard box, make a hole in it, figure out how to fix the roof. Since the cardboard is light, before gluing the parts, consider mounting the treehouse. It remains only to decorate and the birdhouse is ready.

Birdhouses made from plastic bottles

Outside, the bottle can be wrapped with twine. Inside the house you need to insulate and give it extra comfort with yarn or sisal. If you want to be creative, then try decorating the craft with acrylic paints. It remains to come up with devices on how to hang a birdhouse from a bottle so that it does not sway much from the wind.

Birdhouse ideas from improvised materials

After your birdhouse from improvised materials is ready, it's time to figure out how to fix it to a tree. To easily hang a birdhouse, a special bar is attached to its back side.

You can hang with a wire, but try to hang it either evenly or with a slight inclination forward.

creative birdhouse

Together with the children, you can make different birdhouses and look forward to the settlement of birds in your garden.

To combat insects and their larvae, it is not at all necessary to use powerful chemicals, it is enough just to attract birds that will destroy pests much faster and more efficiently. It is easy to do this by building a birdhouse with your own hands, and installing it in your summer cottage. From this publication you will learn about the varieties, design features of bird houses, get acquainted with the drawings and various technologies for creating birdhouses on your own.

Design features and materials

In the classic version, a home-made house for feathered inhabitants is a rectangular structure (box) with a single or gable removable roof, a blank bottom, a hole (let) and a perch in the front of the house.

There are more original types of birdhouses:

• hollowed out from a single log (hollow);
• woven from a rod;
• assembled from bars in the form of a log house.

Old shoes or an ordinary cardboard box can be a good place to breed and raise chicks. As practice has shown, the appearance of their homes is completely unimportant for birds. The main thing for birds is convenience and safety. Based on this, the important parameters of such a dwelling are: the dimensions of the structure, the diameter of the notch, the length of the pole.

The natural enemies of birds and their nests in a country economy are cats and woodpeckers. The main protection against predators is the roof overhang, the length of which varies from 5 to 10 cm. An effective protection against woodpeckers is a metal overlay on the entrance, which will prevent you from reaching the eggs.

What to make a birdhouse at home? To create the right birdhouse, almost all the materials at hand that any summer resident and home craftsman has on the farm are suitable.

Suitable wood and any of its derivatives:

• Chipboard (chipboard);
• MDF and fiberboard (wood fiber boards of various densities);
• OSB (oriented strand board);
• plywood.

For the manufacture of seasonal nests, even corrugated cardboard and polystyrene are suitable. There are quite a few designs of bird houses made of plastic containers from bottled water.

Some adhesives, plywood, chipboard and OSB boards contain phenol-formaldehyde resins, which have a sharp and unpleasant odor that repels birds. That is why birds in birdhouses made of these materials settle very reluctantly.

The ideal option is a birdhouse made of untreated hardwood boards, with a thickness of 20 mm or more, assembled using metal fasteners (nails and self-tapping screws).

Correct birdhouse size

Despite the variety of designs, there are four main types of birdhouses:

Each variety of birds needs to create a house of a certain size. For clarity, we publish a table of birdhouse sizes for different types of birds.

As practice has shown, it is precisely these sizes of houses that stimulate birds to lay the required number of eggs to raise strong and healthy offspring.

Do-it-yourself birdhouses for birds

Assembling a bird house is not difficult at all. Many men, during their youth, learned to make various designs directly at school in the lessons of labor training.

Before you make a birdhouse out of wood, you need to prepare the tools:

• wood saw;
• with a set of drills;
• hammer;
• chisel;
• pencil;
• roulette (ruler);
• nails 40 mm long, 2 mm thick.

Depending on the material used, you may find it useful: scissors, ingredients for the paste (water, starch), wire, twine.

Goggles and gloves must be provided to protect eyes and hands.

Classic birdhouse made of wood: drawing with dimensions

The simplest design is a birdhouse with a flat roof. To create it, you need to prepare: raw boards 20 mm thick, nails, hammer, drill:

1. We cut the blanks according to the dimensions indicated in the drawing.
2. In the element of the front part, we drill a hole for the notch.
3. We fasten the sidewalls to the front part with nails. For fastening each element, 3-4 nails are used.
4. We install and fasten the bottom into the workpiece.
5. Fasten the back wall to the side.
6. We fix the persistent element (square) on the roof.

The roof is inserted with a thrust element inside and does not require additional fixation with fasteners. In a similar way, a plywood house is made.

Plywood birdhouse

We publish drawings of a birdhouse made of plywood below.

1 - preparation of the front part; 2 - the bottom of the structure; 3 - lateral right wall; 4 - element of the rear wall; 5 and 6 - roof elements; 7 - left side wall.

To create a structure, moisture-resistant plywood, 10 - 16 mm thick, will be required. The bird house is assembled with self-tapping screws.

Styrofoam birdhouse

From the remnants of the material after the walls are insulated, you can quickly make a budget foam birdhouse.

This material has a lot of advantages:

• low coefficient of thermal conductivity;
• lack of moisture absorption;
• biological resistance;
• light weight.

The main disadvantage is low resistance to mechanical stress.

To make a decorative foam birdhouse, use the drawings of a classic plywood birdhouse:

1. Using a knife, cut out the necessary structural elements.
2. Use "liquid nails" to fasten the elements.
3. It remains to paint the structure with water-based facade paint.

We make a birdhouse from a log with our own hands

Duplyanka - a house for birds made of logs. This design is more familiar to birds, since a solid log is much warmer and less noticeable on a tree. In order to make a birdhouse out of a log, you need to find the right one. Aspen is best suited for such purposes. A fallen tree rots from the inside, so it will not be difficult to gouge the necessary hole in a block of wood.

The process of making a hollow:

It remains to nail the roof. For this, a fragment of a croaker is best suited. Due to its shape, precipitation will not linger on the structure.

Wagtail house

Many summer residents want to attract wagtails to their site. And this is not surprising, because wagtails feed exclusively on insect pests and dragonflies, which are caught on the fly. The peculiarity of the structure of the paws of this small bird does not allow climbing the wall of the birdhouse into the notch. That is why the correct wagtail house is a rectangular structure oriented horizontally. We publish the drawings and dimensions of the house for the wagtail.

Box dimensions:

• height - 150 mm;
• depth - 350 - 400 mm;
• width - 150 mm.

The design provides for a rectangular notch, located near the side wall of the front of the house. Tap hole dimensions 50 x 50 mm.

Drawing of a titmouse with dimensions

The titmouse differs from the classic birdhouse only in dimensions. There are two options for titmice: large and small. We publish a table of optimal sizes for each design.

When making a house for small titmouse, flycatchers, redstarts on your own, you can use the drawings of a small titmouse with a gable roof.

For the manufacture of elements, you will need a raw board with a thickness of 20-25 mm. The elements are assembled with nails or self-tapping screws. In this design, the roof is rigidly fixed to the body of the birdhouse.

Rules for installing a birdhouse

In order for the birds to happily master the new “home”, it is necessary to install the structure in compliance with certain rules:

1. Install a “home” away from paths, places of human activity and recreation.
2. When choosing a place for mounting a house, consider the prevailing wind direction in your area. Rain should not fall into the entrance.
3. At the installation site there should not be large branches that prevent the approach.
4. You can not fasten the birdhouse to the trunk of a tree with nails.

And lastly, at what height should the birdhouse be hung? The distance from the ground to the structure should not be less than 2 meters. Compliance with these simple rules will significantly increase the chances that feathered residents will settle in your birdhouse.

We make a birdhouse with our own hands - video

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small birds have always been respected by people. It's nice to have useful neighbors, they sing and fuss, they also catch insects and delight the ear with their singing. True, they thought of building houses for them quite recently, about 300 years ago.

No one builds massive housing complexes for birds, and no one needs it. In nature, everything should be in moderation, comfort too. If we talk about birdhouses, then there are certain subtleties of their construction.

The birdhouse needs to be disinfected. And a person can help with this. Having made a removable roof near the birdhouse, you can always remove it and pour boiling water inside the wall. After waiting for the chicks to fly out, and shaking out the contents of the house.

People thought of making more than fifty varieties bird houses. But our today's publication is about a classic house - a birdhouse.

He came to us from Western Europe. And the reason for its creation is banal - food should be at hand. In Europe they ate starlings and their eggs. Peter the Great saw them and ordered, without fail, to start making and hanging bird houses, for fun.

When building a birdhouse, no need to craft very spacious house. It should be crowded in it, starlings will feed only two or three chicks. In this case, each chick will be healthy and strong. In spacious apartments, starlings will hatch even five chicks, but they will not be able to feed them. They will be sick and weak carriers of epizootics.

No need to be zealous and hang a lot of birdhouses, just hang one next to the house, you can have one more within sight. If many birds will breed, the balance will be disturbed and they will not have enough food, as a result, all the birds will leave your area.

One more thing: it is necessary to protect the house from cats, they climb everywhere. It can be protected in two ways:

1. A tall birdhouse, a notch from above, the cat's paw does not reach the chicks.
2. The birdhouse is hung on a pole, in the middle of the pole there is a plywood circle with a diameter of 50 cm, the cat does not overcome the obstacle.

Cozy house with your own hands from a bottle

In winter, in the cold, feathered friends have a hard time. Increasingly, small birds fly to a person’s dwelling and knock on the window, asking for crumbs. Even in winter, a warm bird house will be in demand.

It's time to take care of the birds - this is in the spring. Birds return from warm countries, looking for a mate and a suitable place for a brood.

Getting Started

We make a birdhouse for birds with our own hands from wood.

Step one. We are preparing

You will need boards 20 mm thick, the birdhouse will have seven elements and a perch. We take a drawing of a birdhouse, a pencil and mark up each detail of the house on the boards: the visor and the bottom of the lid, the bottom, the back, the front and two side walls.

The bottom of the lid and the bottom are the same, 13 cm square perimeter. They differ in height by 4 cm, the front wall and the rear wall, the angle of inclination of the roof peak is created. For this reason bevels are made on the side walls. Two parts of different sizes are made on the roof.

Step two. We cut out.

It is advisable to cut out the elements together, to match sizes of paired parts. Plane the front of the house with a planer or on a machine, it will look more beautiful. Carefully, using a drill or chisel, we make a notch in front of it. Its diameter is 3.8 cm, it can be increased up to 5 cm.

Under the entrance, we drill a through hole for 3 cm, here the arrival perch will be placed.

In nature, a natural hollow serves as an entrance, it is round in shape. Based on this, preference is given to a round hole, but if there is no choice, then make it square. We place it 5 cm below the top point of the facade.

Step Three. Collecting.

To exclude drafts, we glue three sides with carpentry or PVA glue, without a back wall. We knock down the sides of the birdhouse with nails or self-tapping screws. We glue and nail the bottom to the walls, and lastly we fix the back side. This assembly eliminates the appearance of cracks.

Paste arrival perch, pencil or just a long stick. A double-sided protrusion of 5 cm will be very convenient for the bird.

We make the roof removable, this will facilitate the cleaning of the birdhouse after the brood. As already mentioned, pour out the contents and pour over boiling water, you can treat with potassium permanganate. Temporarily attach with screws to protect from wind and cats. Two roof pieces fasten together.

Step Four. We install.

The structure is fixed nails or wire. If fastened with nails, then you first need to nail a bar at the back of the house, 50 cm longer than the birdhouse itself, and then nail it to the tree.

It is easier to fasten the birdhouse with wire. The wire does not hurt the trees, for bark protection needed put wooden linings under the wire. Place a birdhouse for birds with an entrance to the east or south, at a height of 3–5 meters.

Build a birdhouse handmade from wood or plywood is easy. It is necessary to have a mood, desire and have a drawing of the object itself.

If you decide to hang a birdhouse on the site, then you should think about its decorative design. Let it look nice from the side. Any birds feel good even in painted houses.

As a rule, they take a standard birdhouse as a basis, and only then they decorate it and decorate it as they please. Craftsmen put up a fence with shaped feeder verandas.

Once I saw the work of the master in the garden: a two-story house, on the ground floor there is a dining-feeding trough. Birdhouse on the second floor. This whole structure, feeder and birdhouse, is made of plywood.

It happens that the "apartment" did not immediately like the birds. We'll have to endure a year, next spring everyone will be happy. The birds will settle in, they will merrily rush around the site in search of food.

We invite birds

By building and hanging birdhouses, we make life easier for birds, help them to take shelter for a while. By hanging a house in the garden, we ensure the safety of the residents, and add joy to ourselves observing the life of nature.

Birds thank us for this, catch midges and mosquitoes, collect pests from the beds. But different birds are looking for completely different housing, the size of the bottom and the height of the wall, the size of the notch, and much more matters.

They carefully study the location of the future nest. At what height is the house located, what is inside and what does it smell like. If all the elements are taken into account by us, made do-it-yourself apartments filled with bird life.

It is important to make them comfortable for birds, not only beautiful for our eyes, otherwise they will remain empty.

Different birds - different houses

Small birds settle in small houses. Tit sparrow, flycatcher, choose a small hole for entry 2.7–3.5 cm. The bottom is small, compressed 10–13 cm. In the absence of a perch jump from the bottom to a height of up to 15 cm.

Starling, wagtail, hoopoe, wryneck or woodpecker prefer an inlet of 5–5.5 cm, the bottom is also wider than 13–15 cm. The letok is located at a height of 25 cm from the floor, and the front wall is 32 cm. . They need a rectangular bottom 18 x 13 cm. Oval entrance under the roof itself 6 x 3.7 cm front wall up to 13 cm high.

An interesting fact is that if a small bird populates a large house, then over time it will have to give way to a larger bird. If this happened on your site, you should cover the inlet with clay and give it the desired size.

How to place birdhouses

A height of four meters is considered safe. It is good when the birdhouse is in the shade and looks to the east. The distance between the houses is not less than 30 meters. Starlings are social birds, they can be placed closer, but other birds require territoriality.

You can find an interesting solution without wasting time and money on materials. It’s pretty quick to make a birdhouse out of a plastic bottle, and if you decorate it, it turns out very well.

plastic houses

Large plastic house

A large 5 liter water bottle will make a great summer house for small birds as well as larger friends.

On top of the bottle, you need to make a hole that is suitable in size for the bird. You will have to paint over the entire bottle with paints, sunlight should not get inside. Cats on plastic will not be able to resist, so there is no need to be afraid of them.

If you make a through hole with an awl, you can insert a perch for the convenience of birds. From the same bottle, feeders are very good.

A square hole is made on both sides, the plastic is cut on three sides. The plastic is bent up, it turns out a visor over the notch. Such a house or feeder is easily hung by the handle to the branches.

Device inside the house

You can make such houses from bottles, however, as well as from wood, together with children. Children will imperceptibly get used to the idea of ​​nature, to take care of the world around them. Have a great time.

The house can be decorated with paints, but you can simply decorate it with bright ribbons or leave it transparent. It is worth sprinkling the bottom of the bottle with sand, put hay and dry twigs on top. So, it will become much more comfortable and attractive for birds.

The tenants themselves will figure out what is useful to them. It is worth thinking about the quiet life of birds and hang the house higher.

DIY bird house

We take a two-liter bottle from a drink, this will be the basis for the house, then:

• pliers;
• Drill and two different drills;
• Stationery knife;
• Paint brush or a piece of sponge;
• Old CDs;
• Scissors;
• Wire;
• Glue on plastic;
• Scotch tape, you can also tape;
• Dowel and screw.

In addition to all this, you need acrylic paint:

• black;
• beige;
• green;
• brown;
• light brown.

It's almost all you can find at home or in the garage.

How to build a birdhouse with your own hands

In a two-liter plastic bottle, at a height of 6 cm from the bottom, we cut out with a clerical knife a round hole for a notch.

Two cm below, we drill a 3 mm hole and fasten the plastic dowel with a screw from the inside. It turned out to be an excellent perch for a starling. He will greet those around him by singing, sitting in front of the entrance to the house.

We cover the bottle with brown paint twice, paint carefully, without gaps. We create coziness and darkness in the house.

With a thin drill, we drill the neck of the bottle horizontally through. A wire is threaded into the hole and twisted. It turns out a good loop for hanging a bottle.

The finished dwelling can be left and hung in the garden, but you can carry out a couple more operations, for beauty.

bird house decoration

We cut out the window layout from paper and glue it on the bottle.

We heat the CD-disk, so it is easier to cut it, and divide it into pieces like a cake. This turned out to be a tile for our house. You can paint the tiles brown or decorate with all colors, make the roof multi-colored.

We begin to glue the bottle with tiles from the bottom row, you can also fasten it with adhesive tape for strength. Each next layer is attached only with glue.

The house is ready!

Cozy home furnishing

Is it possible to make a plastic house more comfortable? A starling is a bird that independently searches for suitable material for its nest.

And who told you that the starling is the only representative of birds that can settle in a made house. That is why it is worth worrying about the comfort of future guests.

The bottom of the housing can be lined with rags, cotton wool, hay and down. Any birds will not refuse such help in arranging a nest. They will delight those around them with their singing and twittering.

Where are birdhouses hung

The higher above the ground, the more secure, as the birds think. The first requirement that birds need is safety. We go into the garden, hang it higher, fasten it securely to good trees.

It is better to stir so that it is not particularly visible. Extra eyes for chick growth can get in the way. The main destroyers of bird nests are cats and children, and we hide bird nests from them.

Be sure to try to make such a house with your children. A good activity for kindergarten, simple performance and helps to develop love for the world.