Homestead Projects. How To Build Bird Houses - Caring for the flock PART 2
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- In this episode I demonstrate easy to follow instructions for building nesting boxes for songbirds.
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Watching nature is better than anything on TV anytime. I agree Boss love to watch nature.
Even better than nature shows ha ha
In a mans heart there are some things that will never leave him. Two of which are the love for the woods and his carpentry tools. I left the trade after 35 yrs. but I cannot part with my tools. My father taught my son to build feeders and roosts, and will one day teach his. Great vid.
Hi Boss,
Videos like this are a simple pleasure to watch and enjoy. I too feed the birds and other creatures. Kind of like friends except my dogs keep them on there toes like Frankie. It says a lot, that trappers are some of the best friends of the woods. Thanks for another great video. Always a joy to watch and thanks for sharing. Pete
Thank you Peter. It makes me happy when I see birds building nest in the boxes I provide. The more I build, the happier I get so I keep building them.
Thanks for commenting.
You motivated me to get in my shop and get busy! I made a bluebird house and both platforms for Robins! Thanks so much for the nice video! Two Bluebirds visited the new house the next day after I put it up! My fingers are crossed hoping they move in.
That's awesome. Thank you for caring for the birds.
So cool seeing the nest, I'd not seen one made like that before. :)
A very cool nest for sure Louise. The house is ready for another brood.
😊 thank you ❤️🇨🇦for caring about nature and wildlife.🦆🐥🦉🐛🐝🕷🕸🦉🦅🐸🐰🐭🐢🐇🐿🦫🦨🐁🦢🐓🦜🌲🌲🌲🌲🦔🐿🦡🐀🦨🐁🕊🐇🦝🦝
Thanks for my BossofTheSwamp fix!!! Snow's all but melted here in central NY (some still out in the woods though) - looking forward to making some of these, and trying out some barrel raised beds we're gonna utilize this summer. Thanks JC!!
Happy to hear you'll be using some of these project ideas. I'm sure you will like those barrels. Still lots of snow here. It's melting very slow.
All the best.
I need a "BossOfTheSwamp" fix!!
Rob Baker I haven't done anything worth taping lately but I'm heading to the cabin shortly. I try t keep the vids interesting and don't just want to pump out a bunch of repetitive crap. I should have something soon. Thanks for checking in.
Thanks for sharing JC! After a hard week at work, (60 hours this week), your videos keep a "bright light at the end of the tunnel for me" for my near future retirement. You confirm life is a one way trip and you can choose whether you want to be a product of todays society and work the daily grind, or don't purchase the luxuries you reeally don't need and work the schedule you desire.
+Brad1237202 That's a long week my friend. All the power to you. Cheers :-)
Nature is amazing isn't she? I think trappers are the ultimate appreciators of nature and her citizens as we notice things like the nests that others don't.
To me, if I may offer my unsolicited thoughts on the matter, these videos are really great educational videos about woodworking - with a birdhouse as the backdrop.
I would like to suggest that you do a "Basic Woodworking" series of videos over the off season. You have a true gift not only for wood working, but also for teaching. I learned a lot about using the speed square in this video as I'm one of those who doesn't have a lot of fancy tools; but would still like to do some of these projects.
The next project you tackle you could turn into a series - about tools, techniques, different cuts, joins, etc. I'm sure people would value your opinion on what tools are good, what you absolutely need, what you can live without, etc. Just a thought.
I'm off to do a beaver job and throw out a turtle trap. Going to see if the snappers are hungry yet! Take care my friend.
That's a really good idea buddy, I just may do that. Thank you for the suggestion. I'd e interested in some Alabama land, something with water, either a river, stream or pond on it. You could be my caretaker. From your vids it looks like you have some nice country there and your climate would be a nice escape during the late winter.
thebossoftheswamp I will do some searching and let you know what I find. I am going to be ready to buy in the next 2-5 years myself. Been a long day, I'll contact you privately to discuss further.
Always a treat to watch your videos, they are really something buddy. The birds are hear and man it brings life to my soul! Hope all is well, great video I am gonna make some of these for sure.
Regards
Mark
Thank you Mark, I always enjoy your comments and thank you for posting them. All the best to you and yours.
i decided to build a bird feeder today so thats what i did because of you i'm starting to do things that make me feel good and it certainly did
Awesome. Thanks for caring for the birds :-)
Another entertaining video. For those few minutes watching your videos i have a grin on my ugly mug ear to ear. Thank You for being you. When I pick up my tablet your Channel is the first I aim for. Love it.
Thanks Again, Vinny
Realy nice video. First time I've had the chance to see a Robin's nest. Really kool how nature designs and builds. And we humans are arrogant enough to think we came up with stuff.
Very true Mike. I'm going to show some really cool nest in an upcoming video. Birds simply amaze me.
Nature is the only place where I have ever found true peace! I cannot even explain the feeling.. its like being closer to God or maybe heaven! In my mind I can hear the birds and the chattering squirrels. I creek bed is nice also.. nothing can lull me to sleep faster than the sounds of a creek rushing to parts unknown! You have a awesome life and I can tell you cherish it and are a great steward of the land! Love the bird houses..I use to make gourd bird houses and bird feeders so I know how wonderful it feels to give homes and food to God's creations! Keep up the good work! Blessings!
You definitely share my views on life Abby. I always enjoy your comments.
The best nighttime sounds to sleep by is the spring peepers. My screenhouse is down by my marsh and it has a small fireplace thingy in it so can enjoy a fire at night without the bugs. I have a futon couch in it and there's nothing like kicking back in the glow of the fire and enjoy the chorus of night sounds. Life is truly what you make of it. All the best to you.
Tell me what a spring peeper is?? The night time sounds we have are crickets here! Last fall I was at my folks,it was evening and the cricket noise was the loudest I had ever heard ever.. I felt like I was in a marsh...then I kept seeing them in the garage, but then when one ended up in my room singing to me I was flabbergasted. I turned the light on and he was on a decorative pillow sitting alongside of the dresser. I tried to catch him three times to no avail.. my 80 year old father tried to catch him also. Finally I just went to bed, but the minute I turned off the light he began his serenade. I tried again to catch him.. its one thing to hear them outside, but inside a closed room is not at all delightful! Still no luck, finally I tried again to go to sleep.. next I heard a bag rattling.. he had crawled into a bag of things I had purchased.. I closed it shut quickly and took him outside.. I just dumped the whole bag on the ground.. funny little thing turned and faced me like I had insulted him.. I think I angered him for taking him from the comforts of a warm room.In any case I finally got to sleep! Last year though was a over abundance of crickets.. they were dying off but were going out singing. Just as it should be for all of God's creations!
1994abbygirl Cute story Abby, thanks for sharing that. I love cricket sounds. The peepers are the tiny frogs that live in the marsh out here. You can hear lots of them in one of my cabin videos I posted last spring. I think "peepers" are what they are actually named and never heard them called anything else. I love the night noise... everything but the damn whippoorwills. I can live without them.
thebossoftheswamp Well like the sound of crickets too,but not in my room.. amazing how loud they can be! I will look for video, here we just call peepers frogs are they tiny or smaller than frogs...I like your name better.. sounds more original. Funny how across the country we use different names for things! I have never heard whipporwills in the wild.. my sister lived in WY and she loved them..I have heard them on tv though and I think after awhile I would be like you..it to me would sound like a broken record saying the same three words over and over again. Have a blessed night!
1994abbygirl Peepers are very tiny but have a big voice and their chorus is very soothing. I don't mind whippoorwills when they are off in the distance but when they are near the house and whipoorwilling before dawn, with that fast paced repetitious whippoorwill whippoorwill whippoorwill whippoorwill bullpoopy, well... I'd settle for a cricket in my room.
What part of the country are you in?
If I should ever come back as a bird I am coming to live with you!
Just don't come back as a starling lol.
Oh no way, it will be a Robin or one of the other more pleasant birds
Watching some of the older video's this evening enjoying them. I looked down and see meat trapper left you a message 8 years ago (cool). I made these box's and they are still being used Thanks Yes ser Take care and stay safe.
from your example, my 7 year old nephew and I built and hung a birdhouse yesterday. thanks for posting boss!! yess sah!!
Happy to hear my videos have encouraged folks to provide for the birds. Thanks for commenting.
I got the thousandth 👍. That was pretty cool 😎. God bless you Boss! You’re an inspiration and you always brighten up my day!
Great project video, I am with you, no better way to relax, and find one's self than the outdoors.
Couldn't agree more my friend.
Boss you're a veritable cornucopia of knowledge.
Enjoy the vids. Thanks
That's the first time I've ever been called that. Been called a lot of things but this is a first. Thank you kindly.
thebossoftheswamp
You should be like me. I'm so smart that folks even call my rear end smart. I hear "There goes that smart A$$"...LOL
1timby Been called that too and a few other things ha ha.
All the best.
Nice boss! I like the nesting shelves. I have never made any of those. Hey your fur shed is empty. I cant imagine why! LOL The snow is going now. Cant wait till I see now white stuff out there! I did get to spend a day chasing snow geese around. That was cool. Got my first one ever. Take care man!
The snow is going but going slow. I'm anxious to get back to work on the cabin again. I miss doing that. Congrats on the goose.
Thanks boss!
Great video Boss, Those birds will be singing before long.
I love birds too. I would put all their nests in the compost....lots of great fertilizer right there! I put some in my 9 ft house ficus tree too.
Hope it's not to late to start. Good project for me and the boy (10 y/o). Thanks again for the simple jewels!
Never too late. A lot of birds have multiple broods each summer.
Great looking houses JC. Yuo are a keeper of birds. Birds of a feather flock together. Have a nice day and give Frankie a scratch behind the ears for me.
Maybe next winter I'll migrate with them and head south. I think they have it figured out.
good for starting fires outdoors and possibly to pot some plants in during spring
You have been very generous with your trapping knowledge and skills, and we thank you, but what i would liked to see is a video on how you do your land speculating. That would be nice. I have 35 years at the same job and i ready to switch over to your kind of living
Interesting topic. I will be putting the rest of my land up for sale soon, my homestead included. All I'm keeping here is my cabin land. I have a cabin in NH that is 1.5 miles off the pavement and there's a good chance I will be moving there and bouncing back and forth between my 2 cabins. I don't need my homestead anymore. Just about everything will be for sale soon.
that was a very cool nest the bird made..Good idea to save that nest. Nature is amazing. Nice project to do. I never knew they would build a nest in that shelf... Cool!
The shelf type boxes are great for birds that build nest that cling to buildings like the Eastern Phoebe, Barn Swallows, Robins etc. Very few of these are left unattended. It's good use for my small wood scraps.
Very nice. Penthouses for birds.
How did I miss Part 1?? I did not get a notice :))) I've been wondering "now why don't he write" :))) Yes, I just watched Dancing with Wolves". Many memories of my sweet mom, she loved bird nests also. I'd cut our hair and she's save the hair to put out in the Spring for the birds to use in the nests. Also she'd give them all the long strings I'd cut off my fresh washed quilt fabric. She would get such a kick out of watching them come get her bits and pieces and fly off to build their nests. Thanks JC for sharing such simple pleasures :)))
Yeah I thought it was odd that you didn't comment on part one. Was hoping nothing bad had happened to ya. Glad to see you alive and well and back on my channel. I smiled when I read the bits about your mom. I get a kick out of putting stuff out and later finding it in a nest box. They do that will deer hair too. Birds are so amazing if you take the time to learn about them. As always, thanks for commenting.
Animals are amazing! And to make a nest like that with only a beak! Thanks for the cool video Boss :)
The Oriole's nest is the most amazing and I'll be showing one soon. They weave a hanging basket. How they do it with their beak I'll never know. Cool stuff for sure.
Nice video and very timely. Just starting to hear the spring birds around here. Really sick of winter now.
I agree, kinda cool. Take care.
Paul.
What everyone else said! Loved it man keep em coming.
Thank you. More on the way.
Great vid, that's a nice way to help out the birds
Excellent jc,,interesting on the ones that face east being good, didn't know that. Thx for the share
I try to face most of them south east. The one that held the cool nest was actually facing north. I hung it on the barn because it looked like a good spot but had my doubts it would be used since it faced north. They probably used it cause all the other boxes were full.
thebossoftheswamp makes sense boss. Very cool
JC, you know I always seem to learn something from your videos. When you were talking about birds and describing the Phoebe building it's nest under the house eve or above a window, I thought you were actually talking about a swallow. But, I went to the dictionary and low and behold there it was. A Phoebe is a member of the fly-catcher family and does build nests under house eves and above windows. Thank you my friend, another excellent and educational video. - Chris
Yes they are. We have the Eastern Flycatcher as well as the Phoebe here. The Phoebe's are notorious for nesting on the trim above windows. They can be a bit of a nuisance with that but these shelves will help put them where I want them.
As always, I appreciate your comments.
Great part 2, I got out to the shop last weekend and built a few of the other design with the boys,....maybe we'll tackle the selves this weekend. Take care man!
Happy to hear I have inspired some folks to build shelters. WTG man.
Nature is lucky to have you... great video.
And I'm fortunate to be surrounded by it. Thanks for commenting.
Great as always Boss, really like the designs, I'm going to put this one in my favorites so I can come back to this later on ...!!!
Thanks buddy.
Looking forward to seeing your cabin project back in action. I can't wait to get back to work on mine.
Thanks Boss! Lined up some scraps to makes some of these! Perfect!
Another good tip for marking 15 degrees( if you don't have a speed square) is to measure one inch from the end of the board,( along the edge, one inch from the corner) then four inches up from that mark( accross the board) . Using a straight edge, or scrap of wood, place it on the corner and your four inch mark.... Draw a line.. It's 15 degrees.
That is an awesome nest! Another great video too, thanks for sharing.
A very cool nest indeed. Thanks for commenting.
Thanks again for a cool video, really enjoy them.....
Hi there fella, me and the hubby are down at his building building BIRDHOUSES, lol. We enjoy your videos so much and when I was watching about the birdhouses I wanted hubby to help me build some. Well, of course he did the most with the big ole saw and all, but I helped still. He's finishing up the last one of 7. they are so cute. I wanted to send you a picture but I haven't seen your email address. I've heard you talk of getting emails tho. Anyway if your address is for your subscribers, I'd like to send you a pic of the birdhouses. Hubby watched your video and marked down the measurements. We didn't have any pine but there was lots of poplar at his mom's that was just ruining anyway, so we used it. He said they wouldn't last good but still they are cute and will last a while. He put aluminum flashing on the roofs to help preserve them. How about that, the houses have metal roofs, lol. We also picked up a couple suet blocks and trays and a bunch of bird seed. See what you've done, lol, you've got us into working with the birds. Thx so much and keep those videos coming.
Love them boxes..gotta make a couple!! Good stuff JC!!
Thanks buddy. Always making sawdust around here.
It is FINALLY warming up here in northern Michigan, it has been a long cold winter and spring is in the air, winter doesnt usually bother me to much, in fact I love it but when it below zero several days in a row it starts wearing on ya, I am stocking bird houses in my hunting and fishing store, once the snow is gone I plan on making some of my own, love your video's I will use them for reference, Thanks for posting, the hinge idea in you last video was a great idea.
Sure has been a tough winter. I'm ready for other projects but my lumber is buried under snow. I think mud season will stretch into June this year.
Thank you for another great video and info, blessings to you and yours .
Thank you Gary. Same to you.
Great job. I saw 2 bluebirds yesterday. Thanks kb
My Purple Finches have arrived but no blues yet.
Love that Maine Guide Shirt it's broke in just right, Yes Er. The nesting boxs great idea must make a few, love the vids man You and Frankie take care
I got a lot of shirts that are broke in like that. Jeans too ha ha.
Good stuff. I'm starting construction of my sugar shack this weekend. When it's done, I'm definitely going to add some of those Robin's boxes under the eaves.
Happy to find that my vids are encouraging others to care for the birds. Good luck with your project.
Nice looking houses Boss. Looks like a nice project for my boys and I. Last year they did feeders but unfortunately a wandering black bear got to em pretty quick!
Funny how those bears like birdseed so much. They are responsible for a lot of trashed feeders. Yes, building boxes are a good project to et the family involved in.
Great stuff...I'm going to make some on my vacation over Easter with 2 of my boys...I had some redwings show up the other day and a bunch of robins in one of my apple trees...I have a crow making a nest in a redpine in my yard right now also...just got 20 inchs of new snow yesterday and the night before and today its melting and 45....crazy time of year...I'm going to climb the tree and get a shot of the crow nest I think...lol...take care buddy...Gonzo...
The redwings are just now appearing here. When my marsh is alive with birds and frogs, ya just can't beat it.
Thanks for watching buddy.
good stuff i got 2 bird houses up the birds are going to be happy this year
Lots of folks building houses now and very happy to hear that. You'll be thrilled when they start building nest in them.
getting a few birds around my feeder now
I'm going to try and build some tomorrow. Thanks
jo1187 Happy to hear that. Good luck.
Very nice buddy, I like the caribou horns on your coop too.!!
I got those in a trade for some art a long time ago.
thebossoftheswamp Good trade.
thank you for showing now to do that when useing a skill saw
Good stuff...
nice video
Boss..great job thanks ,,,I may have to try this up at my camp
When they build nest in them it'll make you feel good. Go for it buddy.
Great job bro.. loved it!!!!
Thank you Joe. All the best buddy.
NICE WORK
Thank you Bud.
That looks like one of my shirts....I had to quit feeding the birds on my porch...My cat was cleaning up on them !
I've had that shirt a long time. Can't seem to part with it.
Great videos.
Thank you kindly.
Great stuff JC.
Thank you kindly.
Hey Boss, give us a tour of your homestead, all the buildings, and the and how you built them. Im a southern boy and very impressed with your yankee self, lol. By the way, I married a yankee girl, lol
I'll be giving a tour of the homestead a little later on but will do something with my outbuilding here soon. Hope you have better luck with the "Yankee girls" than I do LOL.
good stuff once again Boss
Thank you Clark.
Great video Boss !!
Thanks buddy.
New subscriber. Love your videos. Signed up for the cabin vids, but all your vids are great.
Thank you Artie, glad you enjoy them and thanks for the sub.
great video....miss you on the line Boss
I'll be back on the line again, just trying to keep a nice variety on my channel nice I do a lot more than just trap. Thanks for commenting.
thebossoftheswamp I enjoy watching all you do.....would love to see your art work as well
I plan to build a birdhouse according to your design. The front door open model.
'mornin,Boss & 'lil-Frankie; Great simple projects & I'm sure the 'lil birdies will B thrilled with them. U R A "Good-Shepherd".'lookin 4ward 2 their arrival,which I'm sure U will share with us.Have a wonderful weekend. 'holler at ya later Tell Frankie Howdy
Happy Trails From The Maritimes In Canada ATB Terry
" GOD BLESS "
Howdy Terry, I'll be as thrilled as the birdies when the nest building starts. Just wish the snow would melt so I could get to my scrap piles.
All the best and God Bless.
'lookin 4ward 2 their arrival as well,Friend
'lil Frankie 'holdin his own ?
T.W. Milburn Oh yeah, Right now he's trying to set a new record with how many toys he can have scattered on the floor at one time. My house looks like a daycare center.
If it was a day care center I'm sure Frankie could teach them a thing or 2. L O L
Very cool I subbed!
That is way better than having the robins build a nest behind the porch light like we've had the past few years
It does help to put them where you want them.
I Ike that open bird house I've never seen one like that Our birds may get some new digs
JC: I never knew that that particular bird could stucco LOL It's amazing to me how much all animals know, and not being shown how to do it. I have a twelve inch double compound Dewalt chop box but it's not on tubes, the saw lost its guard and the brake didn't engage quick enough and I was repositioning a lattice trim board and bumped the blade with my right hand, now i've been using a chop box for years with no guard, but it only takes one time to do something careless, anyway I cut my index and middle finger through both knuckles, took 5 stitches ea. So I wanted to tell your subscribers to please be careful with their equipment and not get hurt like me... Bud
+Bud and Bess You are so right Bud. Whenever I ignore things like you did, I end up like you did. Live and learn eh? Hope you healed up ok.Cheers.
Another quality video Boss! The production quality of your videos is great. I see you get the audio from audiomicro but wanted to ask what video editing software you use? Thanks and looking forward to your next one!
I really like those designs boss. Will have to make some of my own. That robins nest is amazing to me too. Have you made any bat boxes? I'd like to make one but I'm not sure where to hang it. Not any really good spots for one on my property here in suburbia. I do see them though flying around the street lights gorging themselves on bugs in the summer.
I would think that on the side of any structure would work. They'll slip into tiny cracks in roof trim and places like that. Probably wouldn't matter where you hung it. If you build it - they will come.
Looks like you have State of Michigan Flag hanging on your shed wall. Have you been there? I wonder how northern Michigan compaires to NH.
Jarod Pratt Yes I drove through there on my way back from Alaska.My buddy Heath Gagnon sent me that.
Boss thanks for sharing. Totally off topic but i was wanting to know if you treated your siding with anything at the cabin. I've been trying some homemade stains and was just wondering what your thoughts are on the subject. Thanks again.
I haven't yet but I will be coating the place with a high quality oil stain.
Yeah oil is the best for sure. Thanks for the reply. Cabin looks great by the way. Take care.
You're amazing. Thanks for showing how to make the bird houses without the fancy saw. I think most don't have your type of equipment. Well, I don't. That nest is amazing. Isn't it something that humans have been so dumbed down that we (not you) can't make our own habitat's, but bird's (small brained animals) know how to make shelter's for themselves? Something's not quite right about that. That nest would make a great planter. Perhaps you could install a round piece of styrofoam with needle sized holes in it for drainage, at the bottom of the next and plant seeds or a plant in it. Beautiful. You make me smile. Thanks.
Correction: make needle sized holes at the bottom of the 'nest' ....
Hey there. What is really amazing is the Oriole's nest. I will show some in a future video. They weave a hanging basket that is tightly woven fibers. It's tremendous. I have no idea how they do it. I couldn't even build one with all the tools that I have. Glad you enjoyed the vid and thanks for commenting.
Love your videos! Do you make your own birdfeeders?
Thank you. Yes I make my own feeders.
Any chance yu could make a video of how you make them?
rmojo23 I will when I have time. Lots of video ideas in the noggin.
can you show us an easy bat house? I read they keep the bugs down....thanks Boss
I have never built one but when I do I'll video the process.
sweet thanks Boss
I made nesting boxes a few times but the only thing I get to use them is starlings, better then nothing I guess.
Starlings and Grackles are the only birds not welcome here.
thebossoftheswamp The starlings are taking over around here.
I just hope that we are not ice fishing for opening weekend of trout season.
About how high off the ground should they be at?
Generally I like my boxes from 6 to 10' up but the one shown here with the nest in it was only 5' high. My bluebird houses are usually around 5' off the ground and set in pairs.
So what do you do about Carpenter Bees? Every year has been a challenge and I hate having to pay the exterminator money to spray our log cabin with poisons to eradicate them. One of my patient's made me a bee trap (looks like a bird house) that is working like a charm. I've caught five bees in two days.
I have small dark colored bees that are attracted to all the cracks between my wood shingles and any hole in the wood. I didn't have these bees in NH but have then here. Not sure if these are what you are referring to. They appear for a very short time and I slap as many as I can with a fly swatter. I kill a lot of them. We have a survival game going.
i noticed you have a state of michigan flag in your shop, do you ever make it to michigan? thats where im from.
A friend sent me that flag. I do hope to make my way out there one of these days.
I tried to watch this video but RUclips gives an error message --- you may want to look at this ---- thanks for all your other videos
Do you clean out your bird houses every spring ??
Yes, I made the fronts open for cleanout.
I have to put all of my blue bird box's on metal poles so the black snakes don't eat the baby's
+dave nessley Good choice.
I think we're calling the wrong creatures 'bird brains'....I know humans who can't cook, don't know how to sew, can't change the oil in their car or a flat tire if they were stranded on a back road at 11 in the night....and these little feathered friends build amazing homes that last and last, gather their own food and feed their young...know just when to fly to warmer temps and, back when it gets TOO warm.....and yea, we call them 'bird brains'. I just can't figure'em out!
+Keith Rayeski Well said :-)
The nests are so intricately made and they do it by instinct amazing . Thanks Boss 👍🏻
are you a Michagander? the flag on your wall appears to be a Michigan state flag.
Mark
No I live in NY. The flag was sent from a friend there.
Thanks for the response. i knew you live in New York. i just did not know if you always did. i enjoy your videos keep them coming.
Thank you,
Mark
New York! Well you still make some pretty cool videos boss.:)
From a friend in Tennessee
Nice job boss but I think you should get a new shirt. It may become a safety hazard with the saws.
LOL... but I love that shirt.
How many birds have been reared from those bird houses around your property, the number has to be several hundred.
Just got back from the NY cabin last night and the amount of nesting birds there is amazing.
why not go ahead and use the nest as a peat cup and start something in it...i think maybe a sunflower, then you would have the seed head for the birds.
That's a cool idea about the sunflower. I like it.
What about bat boxes? They are more beneficial than birds, since they eat more insects!
I intend to build some one for these days but I need the snow to melt so I can get to my larger lumber scraps.
Great video Boss!