This set is based on a popular children's building set we all grew up with. I always thought they would make an excellent basis for building birdhouses and feeders. The plans have been tailored to use inexpensive dimensional cedar available at any home center. Cedar is naturally insect and weather resistant, and the building set design allows for making the feeder and birdhouse shown in the plans, or any design you can build with the logs. Full color, 33 pages including measured drawings, jig plans and a bird chart to help you attract the birds you want to.

Detailed instructions, illustrations, and tables for building 7 attractive, sturdy, and genuinely inhabitable birdhouses. Also data on bird habitats and instinct patterns. Bibliography. 3 tables. 63 illustrations in 15 figures.

Easy-to-follow instructions include diagrams for everything from a one-room house for bluebirds to a forty-two-room structure for purple martins. 56 plates; 4 figures.

"Provides step-by-step instructions, full-color photos, detailed illustrations, and clear diagrams for 19 environmentally-sound projects that will attract birds to your backyard"--

Illustrated with more than 175 photos, 12 elegant but uncomplicated projects include a Chickadee House with a concave roof, a Victorian Bluebird, and a Purple Martin House. The designs come with diagrams as well as everything you need to know about construction, from dimensions to tools.

Photographs and step-by-step instructions explain how to build twenty simple bird houses and feeders using various materials.