Bird Houses
Flickers migrate through the area where I live. They like to next in hollowed out wood (or they will make a hollow in soft or rotten wood). This includes the eves on my house and out building! Instead of shooing them away I decided to build some bird houses for them to use instead of drilling holes into my buildings.
I did this project prior to starting this wiki so essentially all I have is some pictures. I'd like to return to this project and build some more bird houses so I'll have better documentation in the future.
What I can say is that the instructions I found were off of the Internet and suggested using 1 1/2 inch material for the house walls.
I don't remember the dimensions but I do believe the side walls are a single width 2x8 board. The front, back, bottom, and top are joined 2x8 boards cut down to desired width.
Notice the "lines" along the sides of the houses? That is a dado cut on the inside of the walls. This cut provides traction, or a holding place, for the nesting birds.
I don't have a bandsaw so the sloped roof cut was done with a handsaw.
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