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Attracting birds to the site is both useful and pleasant. It is useful because they destroy insect pests, it is pleasant to listen to their singing and observe the behavior of birds. That’s why many people come up with the idea of ​​building a birdhouse with their own hands. People over 40 years old can remember their school days: during labor lessons, boys made houses for birds. But it’s not just property owners who make birdhouses. Often residents of apartment buildings hang them on trees near the house, on balconies and loggias.

What to make from

The answer is clear - from wood, and deciduous trees: conifers are too resinous. The resin can stain the plumage, resulting in the death of the bird. You should not use plywood or. Rarely does anyone live in such birdhouses: glue and binders scare away birds. For the same reason, we assemble and fasten the workpieces only with nails or screws, we do not use glue.

Most often, birdhouses are made from boards. The thickness of the boards is at least 20 mm. This thickness is enough to maintain a stable temperature inside, which is important when hatching chicks. Moreover, the boards need to be unplaned; in any case, the inner surface should be rough. The front part under the entrance is also specially scratched: along these notches, chicks and birds rise to the entrance.

To prevent the boards from cracking during assembly, we pre-drill holes for the screws. The diameter is slightly smaller than the diameter of the screw.

Sizes of birdhouses for different types of birds

To attract different types of birds, the size of the house should vary. It is mainly the proportions of the “body” itself and the entrance that change. The goal is to create nesting conditions that are more familiar to this species.

Bird species	Bottom dimensions	Birdhouse height	Taphole dimensions	Note
Starlings	10*10 cm	30-40 cm	about 5 cm	a taphole is preferable to a round shape
Titmouse - tits, flycatchers, redstarts, sparrows, pygmy owls	10-12 cm	25-30 cm	30-35 mm	round entrance
Lesser titmouse or flycatcher (flycatchers, redstarts)	10*8 cm	25-30 cm	30 mm
Poluduplyanka	10*8 cm	20 cm	height 33-50 mm across the entire width of the wall	taphole - a longitudinal slot across the entire width of the front wall

As you can see from the table, basically only the height changes. The width remains more or less stable. There is no point in making birdhouses anymore. They will stimulate the laying of more eggs, and the birds will not be able to fully feed a large number of chicks; as a result, the offspring will be weak and, most likely, die.

If you want to attract wagtails, make a birdhouse laid on its side: its height will be 10-12 cm and width - 35-40 cm, with the same small entrance located approximately in the middle. Wagtails have weak legs, and they cannot climb a high wall to the entrance. That is why there is such a choice of nesting sites. in the shaker it is also advisable to make a ladder about 10 cm wide in front of the entrance - so that they can enter on foot.

The semi-duplyanka requires some explanation. Some birds are accustomed to nesting not in hollows, but in recesses between branches. They rarely settle in completely closed artificial nesting areas. If you want to attract, for example, a gray flycatcher, make it a small box in which the entrance runs the entire width of the front wall.

Just keep in mind that some types of squirrels also like to live in such houses.

There is another nesting site that birds often like better - a nesting box. This is a birdhouse made from a piece of log. Often dried wood is cut into logs of suitable size, turning it into apartments for birds. The height and diameter are selected based on the dimensions that were indicated for a regular birdhouse. The bottom and roof of the nest are made from a piece of board.

Duplyanka - birdhouse made of logs

Safety

It's a shame and a pity when birds' nests are destroyed. This is mainly done by cats, and also by woodpeckers. Therefore, when you make a birdhouse with your own hands, increase the roof overhang. In almost all drawings it is drawn 5 cm long. In order to protect the birdhouse from the cat, it is necessary to make sure that he cannot reach the entrance. To do this, the roof must protrude by at least 7 cm, and it is better to add a couple more - for large specimens. This ledge will also protect from slanting rain: the likelihood that the chicks will get wet becomes even less.

Another option is to put nails on the lid. The cat is unlikely to get hurt, but he won’t be able to sit comfortably - the nails won’t let him.

There are several ways to protect chicks from woodpeckers:

• beat the taphole with tin:
• drive several nails around the tap hole;
• nail a piece of wood on the taphole area, the fibers of which run horizontally.

All this will prevent the woodpecker from expanding the entrance and getting to the eggs or chicks. The last trick - the cover - will also complicate the cat’s task: it is more difficult to reach the chick through a long entrance.

Measures against enemies: 1 - against woodpeckers, 2.3 - against cats

They still escape from cats and possible invaders with the help of protective belts. They are made either from tin strips or from “brooms”. You will understand everything by looking at the picture. Please note that the distances must be maintained within 3-4 cm. Then the animals will not be able to jump over the protective belts. There should be no twigs, feeders or other possible supports between them and the birdhouse.

Where to hang

Where to hang a birdhouse is also a science. If you are going to set it up on a tree, then at a height of at least 2.5-3 meters. There should be no paths or busy places near the selected tree - a well, a bench, etc.

When choosing a place on a tree, keep in mind that there should be no large branches in front of the entrance: the approach must be free. At the same time, you need to unfold it so that the “window” faces south. All this increases the chances that residents will move into your birdhouse.

Another point: you need to tie or nail it so that the “house” is tilted slightly forward. This will make it easier for the chicks to get out, and less rain will clog them.

How to make a birdhouse with your own hands: photo report

We will do the easiest option - with a flat roof. As already mentioned, we take unplaned hardwood boards with a thickness of 20 mm or more. To avoid splinters, it is better to work with gloves. According to the drawing, we cut the blanks. Try to keep the cuts straight and at right angles: there should be no gaps. Immediately after hatching, the chicks are without feathers, and the slightest draft can kill them. Therefore, all edges must be smooth.

We take long thin nails - diameter 1.5-2 mm, length 4-5 cm and a hammer. Let's start assembly. We nail the sides to the front part at right angles. For each - three to four nails.

Turning the workpiece upside down, take the bottom, insert it, and level it. We nail it to the sides. We cover the top with the back wall and also nail it. Don't forget about connecting the back wall with the sides.

Turning the tap hole upside down, we nail the bottom on this side as well. All that remains is to assemble the roof. We take the remaining square - the double of the bottom, nail it so that the visor sticking out in front is at least 5 cm (preferably 7-10 cm, as they said before). If the nails stick out, bend them.

The roof just needs to fit tightly. If something gets in the way, we use a chisel. That's all, the birdhouse with your own hands is ready.

Often a perch is installed under the entrance. Is it needed or not? If there are enough branches around, it’s better not to do it. If there are no branches, you need to either make a perch or a small shelf, although you can do without them. Why? Because cats also rely on them and it is easier for them to reach the chicks with support.
How to make a titmouse, watch the video

Making a nest - a birdhouse from a log

If the feathered people have a choice - to live in a nest box or a birdhouse made of boards - they will choose a nest box. It is more similar to the usual “housing” - a hollow, there are no cracks on the sides and, therefore, it is warmer. They are less noticeable on the tree, which means there is a greater chance of raising offspring. These are advantages from the birds' point of view. Now about the advantages from the point of view of the “manufacturers”: a fallen tree is used for work, and it is free. If you find a suitable one, it will be enough for a large number of birdhouses. About the disadvantages - making nest boxes takes longer and is more difficult: you have to manually pick out the core, leaving the walls intact.

Now about how to find a suitable tree. Aspen is best suited: it usually rots from the inside, but remains hard along the outer edge. Therefore, we go in search of an aspen forest, and there, among the fallen trees, we look for something suitable: we cut several trunks. It is important to find one with a whole edge and a rotten middle - the work will go faster.

It is advisable to find such aspen - with a rotten core, but strong edges

Often such trees have rotten bark, which makes them look unsightly. We peel off the bark and drag the log to the dacha or house. There we cut it into logs of suitable size. Dimensions are determined by diameter. For a birdhouse, the inner diameter of the nest should be 22-30 cm, respectively, the outer diameter - 27-36 cm. For the titmouse, the sections closer to the top are suitable - the inner diameter is 15-22 cm, the outer diameter is 19-26 cm.

The height of the log also depends on the type of house - a titmouse is 20-40 cm high (but they are more willing to settle in low ones), a birdhouse - from 30 to 45 cm. When sawing, try to make the bevel that appears at the bottom level, and at the top - at a slight slope - so that sediment flowed from the roof. To make roofs and bottoms, you will need cutting boards; you can use unedged boards and slabs.

We take the cut log and begin to pick out the core with a chisel. The task is to dig a through hole. After this, even hard wood is easier to chop. To make the process go faster, you can drill holes with a drill, then break out the jumpers with a chisel.

The task is to dig a through hole

As a rule, the rotten core runs out quickly, then you have to chop off pieces of wood using a chisel and a hammer or mallet. But with a hole in the center it is much easier - the longitudinal pieces are chipped off, the work proceeds at normal speed.

The walls should remain about 1.5-3 cm. We try to work on the middle more or less smoothly, without large chips. When the walls are selected, we make a taphole. If there is a knot, you can hollow it out. Or take a crust and a drill, drill in a suitable place. If there is no crown, take a regular drill, drill holes in a circle, then, using the same chisel, cut through the remaining jumpers.

A piece of board 2-2.5 cm thick goes to the bottom. It is nailed or screwed onto self-tapping screws. The protruding parts are cut off as close to the walls as possible.

All that remains is to nail the roof. The same board or slab will do. Before screwing in the screw, drill holes, otherwise the board may split.

Actually, you have already made a birdhouse with your own hands, all that remains is to secure it from attacks by woodpeckers. If there are knots on the walls, it is advisable to coat them with plasticine (regular, children's). They can also be used to seal the gaps that remain between the bottom and the roof and walls: it is rarely possible to fit everything neatly. If you don’t want to cover it with plasticine, you can caulk it with hemp rope. It is applied to the crack and driven into it with a flat screwdriver (actually there are special blades for caulking, but they are large - this is the time, and for “one-time use” you should buy them...). If it doesn't go well, you can hit the handle with a hammer.

Caulking the “seams” with hemp rope

How to decorate a birdhouse

While the birdhouse is new, it looks relatively good, but after a couple of months it will darken. This is good for the birds - it will become less noticeable and they will only benefit from this. But not all homeowners like to look at such an unsightly “decoration”. To improve the appearance, the birdhouse can be painted, but you need to choose “natural” colors - brown, gray, shades of green. You want your birds to survive, right? This means their nest needs to be camouflaged, and not painted in all the colors of the rainbow, attracting all possible predators.

And this one is just ideal - no cracks in the floor))

Titmouse is inhabited

Beautiful decoration and disguise

We hope that now you can not only make a birdhouse with your own hands, but also decorate it competently (from the point of view of the birds).

Drawings with dimensions

Some drawings of birdhouses are in the text, we are posting a few more in this section. Adjusting the dimensions to suit the planned “tenants” is probably not a problem. Also note that the layout is given for a 2 cm thick board. Adjustments are necessary when increasing or decreasing the thickness.

Birdhouse with a triangular roof: drawing, dimensions

Birdhouse with a sloping roof (front wall higher)

In this article we will make birdhouses with our own hands - correct, beautiful (simple and unusual) bird houses. I decided to break down this topic of birdhouses into clear points, this will make it easier to navigate through the article. And before I give specific drawings and diagrams for assembling birdhouses, and tell you how to make a birdhouse, we will talk about important things– the location and method of attaching your birdhouse. After all, the model of the house also depends on what fastening methods you have available, and on whether you will mount your bird house on a tree or on special high structures. And further... before moving on to choosing the design of your future birdhouse, we will deal with the most common mistakes in making birdhouses (in order to avoid them in our homemade house). So here you will find answers to the following questions:

1. How to attach birdhouses on wood (types of fasteners for bird houses)
2. Where can you attach birdhouses ( if there are no trees nearby).
3. Main mistakes when creating a bird house.
4. How to help the birds choose your birdhouse.
5. Drawing and assembly diagram classic birdhouse.
6. Multi-seater, multi-apartment
7. Bird houses non-standard forms.
8. Birdhouses from non-traditional materials(from boots, canisters, teapots, pots, etc.)

More ideas and tips on how to make bird houses in the article

After studying this article, you can make a birdhouse yourself for a competition in kindergarten or school. Or buy a ready-made set of blanks for a birdhouse– assemble it and decorate it according to your own design.

How to attach a birdhouse

on the tree.

Birdhouses are usually tied to a tree with a rope. To do this, a thick long beam is nailed to the back wall of the house. It is leaned against a tree and a rope is wrapped repeatedly around it - wrapping the beam and the tree trunk at the same time.

But in the West, birdhouses are often nailed to a tree (it’s harder to tie, easier to nail, although it’s cruel to an adult tree). To do this, the back wall of the birdhouse is made a little higher in height - so that there is a protrusion of the board on top where nails can be driven in.

In the same way, you can make this upper projection of the back wall even longer. Long enough to drill a hole in it and hang it on a rope or iron hook as in the photo below.

You can also drive a hook into the roof of the house and use it to hang a birdhouse on a chain or rope on a thick and strong tree branch at your dacha.

SUPPORT FOR THE NIGHTBOOK.

In addition to wood, any tall structure made from scrap materials can serve as a support for a birdhouse. This could be a large branch cut from an apple tree. It can be dug into the ground. But you should understand that on such a support the birdhouses will be too low above the ground, and it will be easy for cats to reach the house (this will alarm the bird). This support model is good in cases where there are no cats in the area and you have a quiet nook in the yard where even your “human foot” almost never sets foot.

Therefore, to maintain the bird’s sense of safety, it is necessary to make high structures of supports for wooden birdhouses. For example, such as in the photo of bird houses below.

Also, an original portal in the form of a pergola can serve as a support-pedestal for a bird house. But also for places with infrequent traffic. If people wander back and forth through this portal, the birds will not want to settle. It is better to place such a pergola in a quiet corner of your garden and not visit it often. Birds will appreciate the solitude and wilderness and will choose this place for safe breeding.

But in the photo below we see that holders for simple wooden birdhouses can be very different from beams with decorative carpentry to ordinary old garden forks stuck into compacted earth.

Also, the support post for your new birdhouse, made by yourself, can be interestingly decorated with fresh flowers. If you plant a climbing plant near a pole, or hang pots of flowers as in the photo with birdhouses below.

MAIN ERRORS

in bird houses.

Very often you can see WRONG birdhouses made with errors. Such beautiful painted bird houses are certainly cute and beautiful, but the birds don’t want to live in them. And the houses just hang empty on the tree - purely for decorative purposes.

Let me tell you what mistakes craftsmen make in making birdhouses. So that the bird house made by your hands is not only beautiful, but also initially correct. Then the birds will like your homemade birdhouse at first sight.

MISTAKE #1

entry hole too low.

The window-door in the birdhouse must be located at a height of at least 30-40 cm. This height is needed so that the bird has the opportunity to create a nest at the bottom of the house.

By the way, the photo above is an example of another fastener - a metal U-shaped bracket is nailed to the roof of the bird house (like an eye for latch bolts).

Look, on the transparent birdhouses in the photo below we can see that the bird is dragging more branches into the house. And if the window is low, the branches will block the exit from the house and it will be impossible for the bird to get out of it. And the bird itself does not want to sit in a nest where its head will be level with the window, it will be so anxious. It is much safer if the window is high - and the wind does not blow on the wet, unfledged chicks, and the mother bird feels safe.

By the way, the photo above shows the original model of the birdhouse, the back wall of which is made of glass with suction cups. Such a house is mounted on a window in a large house and you can watch the birds settling in the nest. You just need to comply with the condition - a window. In the place of the window glass where you plan to mount such a birdhouse on suction cups, you must first seal it with tinting film - so that the birds do not suspect third-party observation.

MISTAKE #2

hole too big.

Starlings will not settle in a house with a door large enough for the cat's head. Cats love to climb trees in search of nests of defenseless chicks. And such a house with a large hole is easy prey for them.

The small hole of the birdhouse was not invented in vain. The cat's head and paw should not fit into the hole, but starlings and other birds should calmly climb inside. Therefore, when you make a birdhouse with your own hands, make a small hole in it.

Only if you live near a forest line and are making houses for owls flying in the vicinity, then a large hole will of course be appropriate.

MISTAKE #3

BRIGHT COLORING of a birdhouse.

If you do not live in a blooming jungle, and if the house you are planning is not designed for parrots with bright plumage, there is no need to paint it in bright colors. Birds trust only natural colors and natural materials. This birdhouse is good to use as a designer piece for your living room or as a piece for a competition for a school or kindergarten. But birds will not live in it.

Mossy, aged houses are much nicer for feathered mothers than sleek, glamorous, smoothly planed apartments.

And if you want your bird house to be original and beautiful, then know: you can make a decorative glamorous design in natural shades. Here in the photo below is just an example of such a house, which at the same time looks chic from an aesthetically human side and does not scare away birds at all with its bright colors.

But the houses dearest to the feathered heart are dwellings with maximum disguised as an ordinary hollow on the tree. After all, starlings initially settled in hollows. From time immemorial it has been this way - it is embedded in their bird genes: to look for a hollow. So make them an artificial hollow from unhewn bark slab boards(sold as firewood).

Or your house made of planed boards, take and additionally decorate as a living hollow- cover (or cover) it with twigs, branches and pieces of bark.

Birds love houses made of unplaned wood, with elements of bark and rough branches.

MISTAKE #4

There is no bird stand.

It is inconvenient for birds to climb the smooth boards of a wooden house. It's hard for them, their little claws slip off.

This is especially important for the INNER SIDE of the walls of the birdhouse. It is better to line the inner front wall with small slats-ladders (so that the bird inside can climb along them to the exit window).

Or nail a piece of bark, or an old grater, or, in short, any ribbed and rough surface to the inner wall of the birdhouse. Or place a short inclined board inside the birdhouse (from the bottom to the window) so that the bird can climb up this slide to the exit of the house.

Also, if the outside of your birdhouse is made of smooth planed boards, make sure that the bird has a footrest.

These could be simple twigs or branches that you cut while pruning apple trees in the garden.

These can be river pebbles glued with hot glue from a glue gun. Or, instead of pebbles, you can stick on logs of branches (cut them into round saw cuts and paste them over the house).

Any old, rusty thing from the barn is suitable as a stand for the birds' legs - a door hinge, a valve from a water pipe, a faucet, a reel from an old fishing rod, a rake, an aluminum fork, a key. Anything can become a perch-stand in a homemade birdhouse.

Such things will only add originality and creativity to your simple bird house.

WHAT ELSE

we can

HELP THE BIRDS.

In addition to hard branches, to build a nest, birds need soft material - tufts of dry grass, moss, feathers, rag debris, pieces of paper, which they collect everywhere themselves, spending long hours on low-level search flights.

Why not make the bird's work easier and place a construction warehouse next to the bird's home. Housewarming in your birdhouse will come much earlier if everything you need to create comfort is located next to the house.

You can collect bunches of grass yourself, tear the cotton wool into pieces and place it in such a way that it is easy for the bird to pull out pieces of material from this construction warehouse. There is no need to tie the grass into tight bunches with thread - the bird will not be able to pull the grass out of the tight bunch. You need to make storage out of a mesh container.

You can hang a box with rags, cotton wool and moss nearby. To prevent the wind from blowing the material away, the box can be covered with a mesh (metal) or plastic mesh, which we place on the bottom of the kitchen sink.

Or weave and twist balls from flexible branches and insert cotton wool, centipon and pieces of chopped newspaper or toilet paper inside such woven balls.

Even holders for bird fleeces and rags specially made for this purpose are sold. They are installed or hung next to birdhouses.

Material for the construction of birdhouses.

MATERIAL for the house must have the correct thickness and texture characteristics.

THICKNESS. Boards 2 cm thick. This thickness of a wooden board will better retain the heat of the house. After all, nests are built in the spring, when the nights are still quite cold and even frosty.

TEXTURE. As I already said, the boards should be rough (slab boards with unplaned bark are suitable). And if you only have smooth planed boards, you can stuff pieces of bark on them with nails and stick them on liquid nails (thick adhesive from spray cans).

Or create artificial roughness - scratch the inner wall of the birdhouse with a knife - make notches for the bird to cling to. Or nail pieces of bark onto the inner wall, several slats one after another like a ladder, or nail a grater or a piece of insulation (it is made of foam and it will also be convenient for the bird’s claws to climb on it).

IT IS FORBIDDEN make houses from glue boards (plywood, chipboard, fiberboard - these materials contain adhesive resins, they emit toxins that the birds may not like. I don’t know whether it’s true or not, but they say that resin pine boards are also not suitable for a birdhouse, which is because of the warm sun, the resinous board heats up and releases stinking resin, and that this is supposedly harmful to the birds. I haven’t checked it, I can’t presume to say.

Now I will give diagrams and drawings of simple houses. But I’ll immediately make a reservation that your designs can be completely different in shape and size. You are free not to adhere exactly to the outline from the project below. As you already understood from the photographs above, there are a variety of houses.

But the logic of the sizes must be preserved... And this logic is as follows.

What are the dimensions of a proper birdhouse?

Window hole size(called a tap hole) – no more than 5 cm in diameter. So that the crow cannot stick its head into the birdhouse and eat the chicks. And the cat's head didn't get in there either.

The height of the tap hole-window– at least 20 cm from the bottom of the house. So that the wind from the window does not blow on the nest of the chicks, and that the chicks are not near the entrance - because of the danger of meeting a crow's beak or the clawed paw of a cat.

Birdhouse height - at least 35 cm. You can do it a little higher, but remember that if you make the ceiling too high, then such a high-ceilinged house will be harder for the birds to heat (warm air will go up and the birds below in the nest will freeze).

House width- (that is, the square area of ​​its floor) should also not be very large. A spacious house is not considered cozy and a wide nest requires a longer time to build. The bird will be tortured to fill such a spacious house with twigs. Therefore, we try to stick to the bottom size of 15 x 15 cm (or 20 x 20). That is, if you are making a wide house, then put dry grass there in advance (the bird will only be happy).

As you can see, these dimensions are dictated by the logic of survival in the wild.. And the right birdhouse is the one in which all these features are observed.

Well, now let's move on to the drawings and diagrams.

Here I collected ways to make a birdhouse in the form of diagrams and drawings. You can choose your house model and estimate what parts you can assemble it. And remember, it doesn’t matter if your sizes differ slightly - we make them from available material and therefore the sizes will depend on our availability.

Here is another drawing of a birdhouse, although here the dimensions are given in inches. It will be easier for you to convert inches to centimeters if You ask your wife for a measuring tape for patterns - the one she uses to measure the circumference of her losing weight during a diet. On such a measuring tape, centimeters are written on one side and inches on the other. This way you can always see a quick conversion of any inch size to centimeter.

These drawings do not take into account one more CONDITION. In the Soviet birdhouses of our childhood there was always a clear rule: the front front wall (the one with the hole) should be tilted forward. This was done so that the starling could climb up such an inclined hill to the exit from the house.

To maintain this slope, you need to make 2 side walls from the rear edge straight vertical– and from the front edge obliquely(we see a similar principle of oblique side walls in the photo below). Only in this example does the birdhouse have a triangular side section. And in Soviet birdhouses there was such a slope, but at the same time there was also a normal bottom, so that there was enough space for the nest.

Below we see a drawing of real Soviet birdhouses from our childhood. True, the dimensions here are given in inches.

But if your house does not have a bevel on the sides, then to make it easier for the bird to escape, you can put an inclined board on the front wall on the inside of the house (it will perform the same function as a ladder).

Now let's look at birdhouses of another unusual shape - a rhombus. Here he is in the photo. The idea is certainly beautiful, the house turned out elegant and decorative. But from a practical point of view, it would be better for the birds if the window was located closer to the left or right edge - then the inclined plane of the wall would serve as a support for the bird to comfortably climb out.

And also in this house that drawback what a window too low- there is no place for a nest - it turns out that when the bird puts grass and twigs there, the height of the chicks will coincide with the height of the window - and they will look straight out and any crow will pull it out with its beak and devour it without a twinge of conscience.

An intelligent feathered mother would never choose such a dangerous house for housing - and it will just hang in your garden, and you will wonder why the birds do not move into the birdhouse.

Here is a drawing of a similar house, but here the entrance hole itself is located much higher - it’s better that way. Or better yet, raise it right under the roof of the birdhouse. The bird will approve of this option.

MULTIPLE APARTMENT

bird houses.

And here are the options for simple multi-place birdhouses. You will see a variety of options. Only here not all apartments will be inhabited; the side houses in the photo below have a too low entrance. If only it were the same design - but with higher side turrets (or higher entrance holes).

And in this photo too, the central house will be inhabited - but there is no side wall (the entrance hole is too low). Therefore, you can make this design, but know that the side parts of the house will only serve a decorative function. And the bird family will occupy only the middle apartment.

And here (in the photo below) is a multi-person version, where all three houses are made according to the rules for the height of the entrance and the height of the house. Such birdhouses will be completely populated.

Here is a beautiful option - the houses look in different directions of the world. By the way, it is recommended to mount the house so that the window faces the south or east. The main thing is not to the north, the birds also need the sun.

It just seems that such a house is difficult to make. In fact, once you start drawing a drawing of a house, you will realize how simple it is. No more complicated than those designs that you made in your childhood from a construction set.

You can design simple cell houses. In a row, like mailboxes in the entrance. Here's a good option in the left photo. But in the right photo it’s not very good – the entrance is low. Not suitable for starlings, maybe for some other birds, I don’t know...

And here is another project for a multi-seat birdhouse. Here, each cell (except for the middle one) is a separate house with an exit in its own direction. If this drawing is changed and the height of the house is made larger and the opening of the entrance is raised to a height of 20 cm, then the starlings will appreciate such a communal apartment.

And here are more options for beautiful and lived-in birdhouses for several bird families at once.

Or you can make a very light and simple model - a birdhouse in the form of a shelf, with holes for entrances, as in the photo below. Only one drawback needs to be eliminated - here in the model below the houses are not large enough in height - it is necessary. It is necessary to make the height of the shelves at least 35 cm, and raise the entrance 20 cm from the bottom of each shelf-flat. Then the house will be inhabited.

DECORATION OF NIGHTBOOKS.

Decorative stylized birdhouses look very beautiful and can serve as decoration for any spring garden.

Bottle caps can serve as a decorative material (and at the same time as an insulating material). Any available material can become a decorative and finishing material when building a house for starlings.

Pieces of laminate or linoleum left after repairs can serve as material for a layered “tiled” roof of a house.

Just never stop thinking about the birds. And if, for example, you chose a sheet of tin to create the roof of a house, think about how such a roof will rattle when it rains. The bird will go crazy with fear as the drum drops echo loudly in the house. Then you need to add a sheet of sound-insulating material (foam or foam rubber) to such a roof.

You can also create a whole green garden on the roof of the house. If you cut holes in parts of the house, put black soil there and plant plants. Pieces of moss or lawn take root well.

As well as special plants related to ground cover. That is, those that grow like a carpet covering the soil, in the same way they will grow on your house not upward, but outward like a carpet. This will add thermal insulation to the house. And most importantly, it will allow the birdhouse to merge with nature - and the birds will feel safe in such a cozy shelter, disguised as a natural dugout.

WHERE TO BUY A NIGHTBOOK.

Birdhouses are often sold in hardware stores, construction stores also have them, and everything for the garden is in the department.

They can also be purchased from individual craftsmen. There is such a well-known site called “Fair of Craftsmen” - we go to the site and in the old “site search” we enter the word “birdhouse” and immediately all the pictures of birdhouses with prices and addresses of the craftsmen pop up. You place an order and receive it by delivery or mail.

Here I have highlighted original creative works for myself Masters Dmitry(You can see his profile below).

And the same master also has works like these on sale. Do you want to buy such an exclusive birdhouse for your dacha. You are welcome to Masters Fair to the author Dmitry (tik-kem).

But the works Sergei from the same Masters Fair. Also cozy pictures of antiquity, brought to life in the form of birdhouses.

And on the same site there are a lot of options for ready-made kits for self-assembly of houses. It’s nice to buy such sets, assemble them – AND THEN CONCEIVE YOUR OWN INDIVIDUAL DECOR (cover them with twigs, cover them with moss, turn them into a toy house, or a fishing shed, or a cartoon character.

Company Workshop No. 13 on the website of the Fair of Masters offers a lot of kits for assembling birdhouses, as well as paints and painting schemes for such houses.

If the house kits of this company are expensive for you, then there are other craftsmen who sell the bases for birdhouses at a much more reasonable price. For example Master Cat– keeps a good price. You get an excellent, solid house and use your decorating imagination to the fullest.

DIY birdhouses

from NON-STANDARD MATERIALS.

Any available material can be adapted into a house for starlings. Previously, before human intervention in bird affairs, starlings found any holes in the natural environment to build a nest there. Therefore, they still do not pay attention to the external shape and material - as long as it is safe. Boots are just boots, you don’t have to choose. Moreover, it is very warm there.

There’s this picture floating around the Internet – maybe it’s photoshopped, or maybe in a deep forest such a nest turned out to be safe enough for the bird. If the tree is tall and inconvenient for cats to climb, then the bird will find this a good place to breed.

You can try to design any item in your dacha as a house for starlings and titmice. What if he likes it? The ceramic pot holds heat well and does not drum in the rain.

But an iron kettle cools down quickly on a cold night, and when it rains it rattles like a drum, so it’s not suitable.

Houses can be made from old cans. But just cover them with thick wooden boards to avoid the roar of rain.

Old wicker baskets with a hole in the side can be turned into an original house for birds - just make the entrance higher and so that the walls are not blown through, do not be too lazy to insert a tab sewn from heat-insulating material inside.

HOUSES for WINTERING birds.

Many of you will go to Google to look for more interesting drawings for birdhouses, in which case I want to warn you right away. DON'T BE CONFUSED NESTING HOUSES (designed for nesting and hatching chicks WITH HOUSES FOR WINTERING BIRDS (the purpose of which is to provide temporary overnight accommodation for birds during the cold winter season).

Winter houses are distinguished by the fact that…

1. The inlet hole is located in them at the bottom(so that warm air rises and remains in the upper part of the house).
2. In such houses they cram perches, on which the birds can sleep on a harsh winter night, protected from the wind and cold.

And in winter, in addition to houses for cold weather, birds need feeders. I already have the same voluminous and detailed article on making a wide variety of bird feeders with your own hands

Now, you know everything (or almost everything) about birdhouses and houses for hatching chicks. A bird house is essentially a simple craft. Anyone can do it.

And if you didn’t find your birdhouse design here, then I have another article on the same topic. Perhaps your future birdhouse is located right there -

Good luck with your work. And let the birds celebrate their feathered housewarming this spring. After all, it’s so nice to feel like the one WHO BUILT THE HOUSE.

In our country, with our salaries, not everyone can afford to build houses. But even if you cannot yet build a house for your family, you have already done a real job if you have built it at least for a family of birds. More will be added to this little. After all, the magic of a house made by your own hands is already working to ensure that your family also celebrates a housewarming.

Magic begins when we begin to do a good deed, with our own hands.

Olga Klishevska, especially for the site

At the moment, there are few hollow trees in big cities, and it is difficult for birds to find a home. Let's help them and make a birdhouse with our own hands. In this way we will save the birds from the cold. In this article we will look at: how to make a birdhouse with your own hands?

1. Use linen gloves to avoid driving the splinter.
2. Wear safety glasses to prevent sawdust from getting into your eyes.
3. The working tool (knife, saw) must be sharp. Remember that a blunt tool can easily injure you; it is poorly fixed in the wood and tends to slip off.
4. Check the functionality of power tools.
5. Use a ladder when hanging the finished birdhouse.
6. If you want to paint the birdhouse, use unscented, water-based paint that is not bright in color. Try to make the bird house invisible to predators.

The best material for making a birdhouse is natural hardwood, for example: oak, aspen, linden, birch. Also suitable for a birdhouse are fiberboard (fibreboard), chipboard (chipboard), and plywood. You can use thick cardboard, but such a birdhouse will only last a couple of months. You should not use coniferous wood, as it produces sticky resin and negatively affects the health of the birds.

You will need: untreated hardwood boards, nails 4 cm long, impregnation or odorless, non-toxic water-based paint (optional), hacksaw or jigsaw, tape measure, hammer, pencil, drill with a 5 cm cutter, brush.

Birdhouse drawings

We present to your attention options for drawings of future birdhouses. When assembling the birdhouse, do not neglect the safety rules described above.

Drawing No. 1 Birdhouse with a slope to the back wall

Drawing No. 2 Birdhouse with a pitched roof

Drawing No. 3 Birdhouse with a gable roof

1. Connect the front wall to the side walls, hammer nails along the edges and center of the board. (You should get a U-shaped design).
2. Assemble the back wall and bottom of the structure using the same method.
3. Nail a wooden bead to the bottom to round the internal corners.
4. Do not forget to fix all the elements of the future birdhouse with nails.
5. Make a removable birdhouse roof for later cleaning of the birdhouse. It should consist of two parts: the main part and the bushing.
6. The roof of the birdhouse should protrude beyond the dimensions of the birdhouse itself from the facade, so that precipitation does not get inside the birdhouse.
7. Place a board or perch in front of the entrance to the house.

1. Choose a place to install the birdhouse; it can be a tree, a pole, or the roof of a house.
2. The mounting height of the birdhouse must be at least 3 meters.
3. When securing the birdhouse, tilt it forward to prevent moisture from getting inside.
4. It is better to attach the birdhouse to a living tree using wire or rope.
5. You can attach the birdhouse to other surfaces using nails and a hammer.
6. The birdhouse should be in the shade so that it is not exposed to direct sunlight and the birdhouse does not heat up.
7. The tap hole should be directed in the opposite direction from the wind.
8. Do not install birdhouses nearby - starlings do not like neighbors.

Ideas for birdhouses made from scrap materials

It’s hard not to appreciate a birdhouse made from wine corks! To create such beauty you will need: a ready-made birdhouse, wine corks, a glue gun, a sharp knife. Glue the wine corks horizontally to the walls of the birdhouse, then vertically - in the center where the entrance hole is located. Cut wine corks into thin circles and glue them to the roof of the birdhouse like tiles.

Paint the birdhouse with waterproof paints, and it will look stylish, bright and exclusive!

A birdhouse made of wicker is the most interesting house for birds!

Don't rush to throw away your old shoes! After all, even from it you can make a house for birds.

Remove the pulp from the pumpkin, dry it and make a birdhouse!

You can decorate the birdhouse in any way you like, the main thing is to show your imagination!

Making a birdhouse from cardboard is not difficult. And for birds, such a house will last a whole season. Protect the birdhouse from moisture by coating the cardboard with varnish.

Don't rush to throw away plastic bottles and make a birdhouse. It won’t take you much time to create such a birdhouse! Get creative and create a good home for birds of any shape. Create with passion and love, then everything will work out!

Gardeners attract birds to their plots for a reason. It's nice to listen to birds singing, watch their behavior and the chicks growing up. And most importantly, the singing family is able to rid the garden of bugs and insects - pests. If you make DIY birdhouse and hang it among the fruit trees, there will be no need to use chemicals to kill insects in order to protect garden plants. Biologists have calculated that chicks can eat almost as much larvae and bugs every day as they weigh.

Who will live in the house?

As warm spring days approach, birds return home from warm regions. For swifts and wagtails, starlings and flycatchers, swallows and titmice in early spring there is not enough food, and there is nowhere to hide. It is impossible to predict which feathered family will settle in the prepared house. One thing is known: in order to feed their brood, starling parents bring their babies about a thousand larvae and beetles per week.

If birdhouse (with your own hands) made or bought in a store) will remain in the garden for the winter, sparrows or titmice will settle in it. However, with the onset of spring, the “legal” owners (starlings) will evict the tenants and take over the home.

For flycatchers, which also live in garden plots, huts are built that are smaller than birdhouses, but according to the same design. But for pikas you need a house with two additional through holes in the side walls.

The size of the entrance to the house for tits should be no more than 3-3.5 cm. And housing for wagtails should have not a perch at the entrance, but a small stand - a ladder. This bird's paws do not have sufficient tenacity.

Important! Before you start making a shelter for birds, first decide for whom exactly it is intended, since the dimensions of the home must correspond to the size of the bird.

How does a nest box differ from a feeder?

During the frosty and snowy winter months, people help birds survive. Small devices and devices for feeding birds are called “feeders”. Little birds are treated not only to bread crumbs. Tits love to peck pieces of lard. Other birds will not refuse rowan grains and berries. Feeders look like hanging mini verandas. These are original bird canteens in the open air.

DIY birdhouse make it more closed. In such houses, the feathered family builds a nest in the spring and hatches chicks. This home should be inaccessible not only to predatory crows, but also to cats. If a feeder can be made even from an ordinary plastic bottle, then a house for permanent residence should be not only strong, but warm and reliable.

“Duplyanka” is a birdhouse made from a single piece of log with a hollowed out core. The round entrance resembles a natural hollow, which gives the house its name.

What materials do craftsmen use to make a home for birds? Natural ones are best suited, such as:

• tree;
• plywood;
• rough boards;
• waterproof cardboard;
• Lagenaria pumpkin.

To improve their moisture-resistant properties, ready-made birdhouses are treated on the outside with a protective agent.

Important! Birds do not like the strong smells of paint and drying oil. Therefore, acrylic enamels or wax impregnations are used for coating.

About bird houses and design ideas

Even an old sneaker can find a “second life” as a birdhouse if you attach it to a board and then to a tree with the heel side up! The birds will be happy to live with him.

It will be very warm DIY birdhouse, made from pieces of thick felt or knitted from coarse woolen threads. An additional roof made of plastic or tin must be fixed over such houses to protect against rain.

Important! Housing must be comfortable and safe for the feathered family and their chicks.

One of the interesting and easy-to-make options is a bird hut made from a gourd pumpkin (lagenaria).

The sequence of work is as follows:

1. take dried fruit without cracks or damage;
2. wash its surface with a rough sponge and hot water to remove possible contamination;
3. dry thoroughly;
4. mark with a simple pencil the place for the entrance (entrance to the house);
5. Use a sharp knife to cut a hole and clean its edges with a piece of sandpaper;
6. shake out the seeds from the pumpkin;
7. use an awl to pierce a hole under the tap hole and insert a stick pre-lubricated with PVA glue into it;
8. pierce the top of the pumpkin across the “tail” and thread strong twine into the hole;
9. lovers of drawing will be able to color an unusual DIY birdhouse;
10. cover the finished house with a protective layer of acrylic varnish;
11. hang a designer bird shelter from a tree or pole.

Such an unusual and beautiful nesting box will serve as a decoration for the garden and will bring double benefits. After the mature chicks fly out or in the fall, the product is removed, freed from feathers, straw and other residues, disinfected, dried and put away until next spring.

Simple and cost-free

The most budget-friendly option for making a birdhouse is a house made from a juice bag. Prepare 15-20 wooden ice cream sticks in advance. The bag is washed from the remaining juice, dried, a hole is cut with a knife for entry with a diameter of 5-6 cm. The entire surface of the bag is glued with sticks from the outside (so that it looks like a hut). From the inside, a small rough board is attached to the front wall so that the chicks can get out. A rope is threaded through the top of the bag, using which the house is hung from a tree branch. The Teremok is ready to receive guests.

Classic wooden birdhouse

With your own hands you can make not only a simple hut, but also a fairly solid home for your feathered friends. You will need the following tools and materials:

• wooden planks up to 2 cm thick;
• pole and wire for attaching the birdhouse;
• ruler or square;
• a simple pencil;
• hammer;
• screwdriver;
• jigsaw or saw;
• drill;
• PVA glue;
• nails or screws.

The blanks are marked on the boards and cut to size.

On the front wall, a taphole with a diameter of 5-6 cm is sawed at a height of approximately 10-15 cm from the bottom. Traditionally, the entrance hole is made round, and its dimensions must correspond to the size of the future residents. This must be taken into account so that neither the crow nor the cat can climb into the nest and drag the chicks away.

A hole is drilled just below the entrance and a stick 8-9 cm long is inserted into it. On this perch the birds will rest and announce the surroundings with their trills. Sometimes this stick is also used by the enemies of starlings and flycatchers.

The lid is attached at an angle to prevent water from getting inside the house. To do this, 2-3 cm is cut off on both side walls towards the front part. The inclined plane of the roof, in addition, prevents predators who have climbed onto the birdhouse from maintaining their balance.

Important! The inside of the front wall must be rough, otherwise the chicks will not be able to get out. If the boards are smooth, small notches are made on their surface.

Assembly of finished house parts

First, nail the pole to the back wall of the birdhouse. The sleeve strips are then attached to the inside of the lid. Moreover, there should be a distance in front for the visor. The next step is to connect the back wall to the side parts and nail the bottom, attach the front front wall. All parts must be connected tightly, without gaps or cracks. When using nails, pre-drill small holes at the joints. This is done to prevent the wood from bursting.

The lid is not nailed down, but inserted tightly on top. This is done in order to subsequently easily care for the birdhouse after it is released by the birds. The roof should protrude forward a few cm, creating a small canopy over the entrance.

Important! During work and assembly, you must ensure that no nail points stick out on the inner surface of the walls. Otherwise, the birds that will live in the hut may get injured.

How to secure a birdhouse

After completing assembly, it is important to choose the right place where it will hang. birdhouse. With your own hands you need to prepare a strong wire. You should not nail the pole with the house to the tree. It is tightly attached at a height above 3 meters, attached with wire to the trunk.

It is recommended to hang the bird house with a slight slope forward. To do this, use a small board, which is placed under the upper part of the back wall when installing the birdhouse. This step will protect the nest from rain and make it easier for the chicks to get out.

Important! The bird house is mounted in such a way that the entrance faces south or southeast. Then cold winds will not blow inside and the chicks will be warm and comfortable.

Both feeders and nesting areas for feathered singers are not located in open space. Birds are very cautious and shy. They will only use the houses if they feel safe.

Do I need to care for birdhouses?

Then the home is dried, ventilated and cleaned until the next bird season.

Many gardeners renew paints and exterior surfaces in advance to ensure that all odors are gone by spring. And in mid-March and early April, install cozy bird houses on your site.

When the house for the owners of the site is built, it’s time to think about the other inhabitants of the surrounding area. Our helpers, birds, also need housing. What it will be depends on the type of birds that need to be attracted to the garden.

"Building standards" for a birdhouse

When choosing housing, birds are guided not by the beauty and elegance of the structure, but by its safety and functionality. Birds are guaranteed to settle in the garden if a number of conditions are met:

• the birdhouse is made of hardwood;
• the thickness of the walls of the house is at least 2 cm;
• During assembly, no glue or materials based on it were used: plywood, fiberboard, OSB.

Fresh wood from coniferous trees is unsuitable because it releases resin that glues the feathers together. In addition, birds do not accept strong odors, so instead of glue, nails or screws are used to hold parts together.

You can make a birdhouse from an old pine board without resin pockets

The parameters of the house determine which species of birds will choose it. Most birds recognize their future home by the size of the entrance hole. Taphole diameter:

• for starlings - 4.5–5 cm;
• for redstarts - 3.5 cm;
• for tits - 2.8–3.5 cm.

If you cut the entrance too wide, the nest will be easily accessible to predators. There is also a high chance that squirrels or large birds will settle there.

Squirrels are funny neighbors if the owners of the property don’t mind treating them to their berries and nuts

Try not to exceed the standard birdhouse dimensions:

• height - 30–35 cm;
• bottom inside - 12–17 cm.

Otherwise, the birds will hatch too many chicks, some of which will die due to underfeeding. Let the parents better raise 2-3 healthy cubs.

Birdhouses are home to not only starlings, but also sparrows, flycatchers, swifts, all types of tits and redstarts.

Every bird has a favorite house design

It is not necessary to make a perch on the birdhouse. Magpies can sit on it and destroy the nest. The thresholds on the house also do not attract birds. Due to the structure of their paws, it is uncomfortable for them to stand on a plane.

Birds do not need thresholds on birdhouses

Gallery: drawings and diagrams of birdhouses

Restless sparrows are the most common inhabitants of gardens A birdhouse with a flat roof can be made in a few hours A birdhouse with a raised roof is not the safest option for birds A house with a bottom of 12x12 cm is suitable for tits
A birdhouse with a hole diameter of 3 to 4 cm is suitable for the smallest birds. After cutting out the birdhouse parts, sand the cut areas. The simplest birdhouse for redstarts is with a square hole. Wagtails and flycatchers often nest in houses with a hole the full width of the wall.

Birdhouse decoration

The less attention the home attracts, the better for the birds. It is advisable not to paint it or add bright details. A house made of untreated wood is the best option. As a last resort, use odorless paint to match the color of tree bark - gray, brown or dark burgundy.

Birdhouses made of thin plywood that are too brightly colored are used only for decorative purposes - to decorate the garden, birds are unlikely to settle in them

Another thing is decor with natural materials. Pieces of bark, twigs, and moss will decorate and camouflage the nesting area.

Bark and branches hide the home from the watchful eye of predators

Gallery: birdhouse decor

A birdhouse decorated with pebbles may scare away birds due to glare
Small tree cuts decorate the house and do not irritate the birds
A birdhouse in the shape of Baba Yaga's house will decorate any tree. Wine corks will additionally insulate the walls of the house. The gift birdhouse is covered with carvings. Birds are unlikely to live in a birdhouse made of branches due to the numerous cracks. By gluing the planks onto a birdhouse painted white, we get a half-timbered house
By gluing the birdhouse with saw cuts, the cracks are sealed with moss. You can stylize the birdhouse as a country house. When making a birdhouse with children, draw cartoon characters on the walls. Birdhouses are often stylized as a fairy-tale house. An interesting solution is to use a water tap instead of a perch. Sometimes bird houses are made in the form of animal heads
The decor in the form of a tree trunk on the facade really decorates the birdhouse. Garden designers have figured out how to combine a flowerpot and a birdhouse. If you don’t know how to draw, draw a birdhouse with lines using a ruler and paint it

Birdhouse made of wooden planks with a flat roof

Spring is coming soon again and my husband and I decided to make the right birdhouse for our winged friends. Our last house was chosen by squirrels and turned into a nut warehouse; it turned out to be too big for the birds.

Now the choice fell on the simplest design of a birdhouse with a pitched roof.

Tools:

• hammer;
• screwdriver;
• drill and drill bits;
• jigsaw or saw.

Materials:

• meter board 10 cm wide - 1 pc.;
• meter board 15 cm wide - 1 pc.;
• nails and screws.

Step-by-step instruction:

1. Mark the boards according to the drawing.

The drawing is needed so that all the details of the birdhouse fit together

2. We cut out all the parts except the bottom and the roof tenon. Using a chisel, we make notches on the inside of the facade so that the chicks can climb to the exit.

When cutting the board, press it firmly against the surface so that it vibrates less.

3. We get 2 sides of the birdhouse measuring 10x30 cm, the front and back are 15x30 cm, the roof is 15x25 cm. We deliberately increase the roof overhang to protect against predators.

There is no need to sand the surfaces of the boards

4. On the front wall, with a pencil and a ruler, we mark an entrance with a diameter of 3 to 5 cm, depending on the type of birds expected in the garden.

Measure the middle of the bottom and sides of the facade, draw lines and mark the entrance at their intersection

5. Drill a hole inside the tap hole circle.

First, a hole for the jigsaw knife is drilled in the facade

6. We insert a jigsaw knife into it and cut out the tap hole.

Move the jigsaw slowly to prevent the knife from flying off

7. We hammer nails into the outer walls at the fastening points so that the points stick out a little.

If you hammer the nails in early, they are less likely to bend.

8. We assemble the body from the 4 walls of the birdhouse in the following order: facade, side walls, back.

The nails are hammered into the walls slowly so as not to bend

9. Take a board 10 cm wide, apply it to the place where the bottom of the birdhouse will be and mark the cut line. We do the same with the roof spike.

Do not cut out the bottom in advance, first assemble the body and measure the actual dimensions

10. Saw off the listed parts. We insert the bottom into the body and fix it with nails.

11. We nail the tenon to the roof from the back side.

The roof spike protects the birdhouse from precipitation getting inside

12. Place the roof so that a canopy is formed over the entrance. We drill holes for the screws and screw the roof on.

After a year, the roof can be unscrewed to clean the birdhouse

13. The birdhouse is ready.

A birdhouse made from untreated boards will merge with the tree bark and will not attract the attention of predators

Master class on making a birdhouse - video

Duplyanka

Birds include birdhouses made of logs into the category of luxury housing. To make a nest box, the middle of a log 30–50 cm long and 30–35 cm in diameter is hollowed out with a chisel. After drilling the tap hole, boards or saw cuts are nailed to the bottom and top of the body.

Starlings and tits happily settle in nest boxes

Making a nest - video

Birdhouse made of plywood with a gable roof

If you have scraps of moisture-resistant wood-laminated board, you can make a birdhouse from it. However, due to toxic fumes from plywood, most likely, the house will only be a decoration in the garden.

Tools:

• screwdriver;
• drill;
• the drill is slightly smaller than the diameter of the screws;
• core drill with a diameter of 50 mm;
• saw or jigsaw.

Materials:

• plywood;
• self-tapping screws

Step-by-step instruction:

1. Draw a drawing.

A birdhouse with a gable roof is still better made from boards

2. Mark the plywood and cut it.

3. Drill a taphole hole on the façade using a crown. Drill a hole for the perch 4 cm below it. Make holes for self-tapping screws on all parts.

The house is assembled in the following sequence: facade, side walls, bottom, back wall, roof, perch, plank

4. Assemble the case without the back wall.

5. Place the structure with the tap hole down, install the bottom and back wall, and fasten it together.

6. Assemble the roof.

Holes for self-tapping screws are drilled in advance so as not to split the plywood when screwing them in

7. Insert a perch on the facade.

8. If desired, glue the decor and paint.

Birdhouses are painted with odorless products

How to make a birdhouse with a gable roof - video

Gallery: interesting birdhouse ideas

Any birdhouse will be transformed if you cover the roof with tiles. A birdhouse in the form of a barn with a sloping roof will decorate the lawn if you install it on a pole. Making multi-apartment housing for birds is a great temptation, but they will not be able to live together. Old license plates often cover roofs abroad. A birdhouse looks stylish with an irregularly shaped roof Eco-friendly tiles for a birdhouse can be made from wood The shape of the birdhouse does not have to be strictly rectangular Birds love round houses, as they follow the shape of the nest To make an unusual birdhouse, change the shape of the roof Modern birdhouses have strict geometric shapes It cannot be guaranteed that in two families will live in a double birdhouse Birdhouses with a gable roof leak, so it’s better to cover the ridge with tin A plot with a modern house will be decorated with a birdhouse with a sharp roof You can try to scare away cats by placing a plywood specimen on the birdhouse An unusual solution - a roof made of two cuts A rectangular entrance is also suitable for birds Sometimes decorative birdhouses are shaped like “dancing” houses
A modern birdhouse can be very convenient for birds. A wicker birdhouse is very beautiful, but cold due to the cracks

Where and how to hang a birdhouse

The bird house is placed on a tree with a slight forward tilt to make it convenient for the chicks to get out of the nest. The entrance is oriented to the south side so that cold winds do not blow inside. The hanging height is not lower than 4 m above the ground. To prevent cats from getting to the chicks, increase the roof overhang by 5 cm from that indicated in the drawings.

Birds need to be protected from their natural enemies - cats

To protect against feathered predators:

• cover the entrance with tin;
• do not mount a perch on the birdhouse;
• make an entrance under the roof itself.

A long overhang and the absence of a perch are necessary protection measures against predators

To properly secure the birdhouse to the support, strips are screwed to the back wall. For them, the house is tied to the trunk with wire or synthetic cord.

To prevent the harness from growing into the bark, place a wooden or rubber pad under it.

You should not nail a birdhouse to a living tree. This causes great harm to it, especially during sap flow.

Pieces of pipe are driven into the ground, into which a pole with a birdhouse is placed

If you decide to place a birdhouse on the roof of your house, do it with an eye on the cats. Attach the bird's "cottage" to a two-meter pin covered with tin. But the best place is under the eaves of the roof, perhaps under the ridge. Screw in a screw there and screw a metal eyelet to the house. There should be no objects around that the cat can get caught on.

For fastening strength, the metal eye for the birdhouse should have a pear-shaped cutout

There should be an open space in front of the birdhouse for birds to fly. Only tits love houses hidden deep in the tree crown. Usually they hang 1 birdhouse per 10 m2 of garden. If you place them more often, they will be empty.

Do not hang more than one birdhouse on a tree, the birds will conflict

Decorative birdhouse made from a plastic bottle

Birds very rarely nest in houses made of artificial materials. So-called birdhouses made from plastic bottles are used only for decorating the garden and feeding birds.

Materials:

• five-liter plastic bottle - 3 pcs.;
• strip of burlap;
• perch;
• glue;
• paints;
• leg-split;
• branches.

Tools:

• knife and scissors;
• marker;
• brush.

Step-by-step instruction:

1. Cut a tap hole at the top of the bottle.

The entrance can be easily cut with sharp scissors

2. Cover the area under the tap hole on the inside of the bottle with burlap.

The burlap is needed to make it easier for the birds to get out of the bottle.

3. Under the taphole, 4 cm, make a cross-shaped cut for the perch.

4. Cut out the template for the tiles in the form of a trapezoid. Attach it to a two-liter bottle, circle it with a marker and cut it.

To cut out tiles, it is better to use bottles with a smooth surface; they are easier to glue.

5. Glue the tiles at the top of the house in rows from bottom to top. You will need 3 rows.

In order not to wait a long time for each row of tiles to dry, you can use a heat gun

6. Paint the house: the roof is brown, the walls are white.

7. Cover the bottom of the birdhouse and the space around the entrance with twigs. Insert the perch.

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