Customer Reviews

The Best Birdhouses for Your Backyard

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

The Best Birdhouses for your Backyard includes thirteen projects. Most of the projects are birdhouses, some are feeders. This is a well put together book with great photographs and instructions. There are even projects to attract butterflies, and bats! (Ick)

The part I like most about this book is that the projects are arranged according to what bird youd like to attract. This makes it easy to build the spring house for your Robins, or the hide away for the purple martin! Also, the designs are made using basic tools.
For all you bird lovers, GET THIS BOOK! It is great!

This book first explains some of the basic tools, then goes into the houses, how to build them, what you need for lumber and supplies. The book also explains a little about the bird most likely living in the house, when, how many eggs, ect. It also explains where to put the birdhouse for mounting.
This book is excellent for the beginner. Excellent pictures and directions. Well done book. I actually have birds living in some of the houses. Nice to make a "home" for someone, hihi.

I purchased this and one other book for my Dad. He loves them both. Well laid out plans. Easy to follow.

a real handy book for building these. the only reason for 4 stars is everyone can improve

This book provides some basic design ideas, but does not provide any decorative "yard art" type plans.

This particular work is not bad. I borrowed in from a friend, gave it a look, and did indeed try several of the dozen or so projects. I was more interested in bird houses, rather than feeders, and this book does give some nice simple designs.

The designs are complete and comprehensive enough for most beginners, or for folks like myself that have absolutely no clue when it comes to building things. Fortunately I have a son-in-law who is a builder and does wonderful cabinet work, so when I did get into a pinch, I made a phone call.

The projects in this work are not fancy and in fact are quite basic. I did appreciate the nice photographs and detailed, step by step instructions. The projects I did try, all using very basic hand tools, including a hand saw, worked out quite well.

I must note her though, that in most states, as in Missouri, you can order, for free, any number of birdhouse construction plans from your local conservation department and do just fine with those. They do not have the pretty pictures, but they do contain the simple instructions and they get the job done just as fast as a store bought book.

I own quite a number of various publications myself, and have a wonderful public library whose shelves are overflowing with such books. To be honest, you can use these resources and do much better than you can with this particular book. Now don't get me wrong, this is indeed a nice little publication, but I have to tell you that there are better and cheaper ones out there. Also, as one reviewer has so well pointed out, these are not fancy yard ornament projects, which personally I liked, but feel many will not. Let me stress, these designs are simple and utilitarian.

Don Blankenship
The Ozarks