Building Birdhouses

When my wife and I created our community garden we installed birdfeeders (sunflower and thistle) and birdhouses to support the birds that nest in our area.     I built the bird houses from a single length of 1x6 cedar from Home Depot using these simple plans.  Just 5 cuts with a Japanese handsaw, a few finishing nails and they were ready for mounting.   Birds moved in within hours.

Here's a photo of a cedar bluebird birdhouse, ready to be installed.

Here's another great site with house blueprints for several bird species.

My next project is a tree-mounted house for

Black-capped Chickadees
Carolina Chickadees
Mountain Chickadees
Chestnut-backed Chickadees
Boreal Chickadees
Siberian Chickadees
House Wrens
Carolina Wrens
Bewick's Wrens
Winter Wrens
Prothonotary Warblers
Tree Swallows
Violet-green Swallows
Tufted Titmouse
Plain Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Brown-headed Nuthatch
Pygmy Nuthatch
Brown Creeper

 I highly recommend building cedar birdhouses with hand tools.  It's great therapy.