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 Imagine
sitting on your deck, watching the birds in your garden nesting in the
bird houses YOU made. What a great way to spend a lazy summer afternoon.
But how?
Learn to make "Nest Boxes" -- better known as Bird Houses -- the
old-fashioned way.
With directions and diagrams from 1925, this eBook is a reproduction of
the original USDA Farmer's Bulletin publication "HOMES FOR BIRDS." It
shows the ORIGINAL way to build Nest Boxes. LEARN FROM THE MASTERS!
This eBook contains:
- Origin Of The Nest-Box Idea
- Use Of Nest Boxes In The United
States
- Increase Of Birds Due To Provision
Of Nesting Facilities
- Results Of Increasing The Number Of
Birds
- Housing Bird Enemies Of Insects
- Principles Of Nest-Box Construction
- Materials
- Paint
- Protection From Rain
- Protection From Heat
- Accessibility
- Entrances
- Dimension
- Principles Of Location Of Bird
Houses
- Suggestions For Homes For Various
Birds
- Robin
- Chickadees, Titmice, And
Nuthatches; Warblers And Creepers; Wrens
- Catbirds And Brown Thrashers;
Swallows
- Purple Martin
- Song Sparrows
- House Finch; Starling; Phoebe
- Crested Flycatcher; Woodpeckers
- Owls
- Wood Duck
- Protection Against Enemies
- Cats
- Squirrels And Mice
- English Sparrows
- European Starlings
- House Wrens
- Other Enemies
- Sanitation Of Bird House
- Provision Of Nesting Material
- Nesting Thickets
- Roosting Shelters
This eBook has been completely
reformatted for easier reading, but contains all the original
information and diagrams as the 1925 publication.
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