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| Build Your Own Birdhouses and Feeders: From Simple, Natural Designs to Spectacular, Customized Houses and Feeders | 
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| Author: John Perkins Publisher: Firefly Books Category: Book
List Price: $19.95 Buy New: $6.31 You Save: $13.64 (68%)
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Avg. Customer Rating: 2 reviews
Media: Paperback Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 144 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5 Dimensions (in): 12 x 8.3 x 0.4
ISBN: 155209135X Dewey Decimal Number: 690.8927 EAN: 9781552091357
Publication Date: March 14, 1997 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Condition: Brand New may have remainder mark or slight shelfware
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Build Your Birdhouses and Feeders. July 13, 2005 No place in this book gives hole sizes for the birds you want to attract. Birds are very fussy about the size of the hole and also the size of the nesting cavity. I would consider this the worst book I have ever read on building bird house and feeders. I am glad I looked at it before I gave it to a friend. Not one practical bird feeder for wet and inclement weather. Beautiful bird houses, but no birds!
Beautiful Book, Great Plans June 25, 2000 45 out of 45 found this review helpful
Perkins begins the book with some backround bird and woodworking information that will be useful for the beginner. He then gets into plans for 19 houses and 7 feeders.Each project includes color photos of the completed house or feeder - these are not just the figments of a writer's imagination. There are detailed, measured, exploded color drawings of each house. His designs include several different methods of access for cleaning out the houses after each nesting period. I particularly like the "slide" designs - no tools or dropped screws to worry about. Some of these houses are so pretty, I don't know if I would want to put them out in the yard. I suppose with a little imagination, you could scale his designs to meet the needs of a variety of species. He has a breif, one page chart showing entrance sizes for some birds. He also show "slot" as well as round entrance options on some of his designs. I still keep referring back to Scott D. Campbell's "The Complete Book of Birdhouse Construction for Woodworkers" as a more complete technical reference. (See that review on Amazon.) Overall, this is a very good book on birdhouses, very inspirational for the imaginative bird "landlord." This book is profusely illustrated with color photos and drawings; it could be a "coffee table" book if you don't get it filled with sawdust!
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