Luring birds into your local area is a pleasant and rewarding activity. After all, birds not only delight our ears with their trills, but also eat harmful insects.
How to make a birdhouse with your own hands - this is our article.
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Source materials
The source material is exclusively wood. It is recommended that only deciduous trees use wood, since conifers emit tar, which can lead to premature death of a feathered tenant.
You can not make birdhouses for birds from plywood sheets, particleboard and OSB. The glue and special impregnation contained in such materials dare the feathered guests.
As a result, the assembly and fastening of the workpieces should be carried out only with nails and self-tapping screws, without the use of an adhesive.
Usually, non-planed boards with a thickness of at least 2 cm are used to make a birdhouse made of wood. This thickness allows you to maintain a constant temperature regime inside the bird house.
In order to prevent cracks on the boards during bonding, it is necessary to pre-drill holes for screws.
How to choose a birdhouse size
The size of the birdhouse depends on which birds it is intended for. Different types of birdhouses differ in their proportions and the length of the notch.
For example, for starlings the necessary sizes are: 10 × 10 × 40 cm, lettuce - 5 cm. For tits and flycatchers, sparrows - 10 × 12 × 30 cm, lettuce - 3-3.5 cm. And the half-hole should be 10 × 8 × 20 cm with a notch height of 3.3-5 cm in the entire width of the wall.
Usually only the height of the birdhouse changes.
Half-dupes can attract protein.
Some birds prefer to settle in birdhouse-hollows made from a part of the log by hollowing out. The bottom and roof of such structures are made of boards.
Sometimes the roof of birdhouses is made removable, so that it is easier to process the internal space from parasites. After all, it often happens that due to parasitic organisms, birds leave their house.
To make the birdhouse again suitable for habitation, it is necessary to remove the old nesting from it and scald it with boiling water. An additional measure may be potassium permanganate treatment.
How to make a birdhouse safe housing
To avoid the ruin of the birdhouse by cats and woodpeckers, the following measures can be taken:
- Increase the overhang of the roof;
- Poke the roof with nails;
- To trim the taphole with a tin sheet;
- Stuff nails near the taphole;
- Attach a wooden lining with horizontally arranged fibers near the notch;
- Make special protective belts from strips of tin or from "brooms", while it is necessary to adhere to the required distances between them.
Important: between the protective belts and the birdhouse there should be no knots, feeders and other likely supports.
How to choose a place for a birdhouse
Birdhouses should be hung on trees at a height of at least 3 m. It is not advisable that lively paths and benches be located near these places.
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When choosing a place on a tree, it is necessary to take into account that there are no large branches near the notch. You need to set the birdhouse facing south in such a way that there is a slight tilt forward.
Making a birdhouse
It is necessary to take unprocessed hardwood boards with a thickness of at least 2 cm. Gloves will also be required.Next, we take the drawings of the birdhouse and saw out the composite parts. It is necessary to saw carefully and evenly, at an angle of 90 °, so that subsequently there are no cracks.
It is better to choose nails with a diameter of 1.5-2 mm and a length of not more than 40-50 mm. We begin the assembly. We apply the side parts to the facade at an angle of 90 ° and nail. It is recommended to use 3-4 nails for each.
Turn over, set the bottom, nail it to the sides. Next, insert the back wall and also fix it with nails with the bottom and side parts.
Turn over again. We fix the bottom and on the other hand. We install the roof so that the overhang is at least 5 cm. Preferably 10 cm. Nail.
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We examine the resulting birdhouse and bend all the sticking nails.
Whether to install a bucket is up to you.
Nowadays, on the Internet you can easily find a variety of ideas on how to make a birdhouse in the country or near your home.
Some of them are very unusual. Therefore, do it safely at home for the birds.
After all, an original birdhouse can become a real decoration of your garden.
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DIY birdhouse photo
