This practical guide for building birdhouses contains plans for more than fifty attractive and useful structures ? from a one-room house for bluebirds to a forty-two-room structure for purple martins. In addition to instructions and diagrams for constructing houses for such avian varieties as robins, wrens and chickadees, the easy-to-follow text also provides suggestions for feeding devices, bird house materials, methods of finishing exteriors, and winter care for birds. An authoritative, how-to book that will appeal to beginning and veteran woodcrafters alike, Making Birdhouses also features a supplement with easy projects for novices ? among them simple structures for woodpeckers, a box for robins, and an ?A-frame? for nuthatches. Plans for houses made from such common objects as gourds, a flower pot, tin cans, and an old lantern are also included.Detailed instructions and diagrams assure successful completion of projects that will satisfy builders as well as their feathered friends.

Birdhouse ConstructionEssentials of a BirdhouseFinishing BirdhousesDon'ts for Birdhouse BuildersPlate I--Justamere Wren HousePlate II--The Lantern Wren HousePlate III--Corner Wren HousePlate IV--Cathedral Wren HousePlate V--The Hexagon Wren HousePlate VI--The Duplex Two-Room Wren HousePlate VII--The "Clock" Two-Room Wren HousePlate VIII--Bungalow Wren HousePlate IX--Summer Home for Jenny WrenPlate X--Observation Wren HouseWren, Bluebird and Martin HousesPlate XI--The Round Bluebird HousePlate XII--Japanese Lantern Bluebird HousePlate XIII--Octagon--Two-Room Bluebird HousePlate XIV--The Cottage--Four-Room Bluebird HousePlate XV--English Cottage--Two-Room Bluebird HousePlate XVI--Japanese Bluebird HousePlate XVII--Observation Bluebird HousePlate XVIII--The Cabin--Four-Room Martin HousePlate XIX--The "Cote"--Twelve-Room Martin HousePlate XX--The Plaza--Eighteen-Room Martin HousePlate XXI--The Colonial--Eleven-Room Martin HousePlate XXII--The Residence--Eighteen-Room Martin HousePlate XXIII--The Mansion--Twenty-Room Martin HousePlate XXIV--The Tower--Twenty-Eight-Room Martin HousePlate XXVa--The Hawkeye--Forty-Two-Room Martin HouseVentilationObservation Houses for Nature StudentsPlate XXVb--Section Showing Arrangement for CleaningNatural Wood BoxesMartin House Which Has Given Forty Years of ServicePlate XXVI--Cleaning PlansCleaning of BirdhousesDrawer Plan and Hinge Plan for CleaningOther Cleaning PlansPlate XXVII--Birdhouse AccessoriesBreakable Pole for BirdhousesAeroplane Feeding ShelterPlate XXVIII--Aeroplane Feeding ShelterPlate XXIX--"Trolley" FeederPlate XXX--Odds and EndsTrolley FeederPlate XXXI--Perch DesignsPlate XXXII--Birdhouse SuggestionsPlate XXXIII--Suggestions for Hanging and Placing BirdhousesPlate XXXIV--Bluebird HouseEasy Projects for Beginners Bluebird Houses Boxes for Robins Box for Wrens Double Wren House Downy Woodpecker House Box for Hairy Woodpeckers Flicker House Woodpecker House Nuthatch House Box for Tree Swallow Titmouse House Chickadee House Houses from Common Objects Suggested Designs for Boxes Feeding Devices