I made a birdhouse.

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Well, you know, it's just a birdhouse, I'm not the best carpenter in the world,

shoot, it's hard to cut a straight edge with a handsaw.


But I had a fun time doing it. I'm not finished yet, still needs a lot of work.

I stained it, and the stain is gooped up in places and not dry.

I will take more pics of it later in the daylight, when I get finished with the whole thing.


I made a door, a log pile and a bench on the front porch, you can't see them good in this pic, will get more detail later.

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Cool Dave. You should get some tiny model birds and put them on the porch.

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That's awesome!

Have you had birds in it yet?

heh thats cool whidden! looks really great

That is awesome Dave! Sandy June must be eating crow for saying you couldn't do it-or giggling because she got you to do it.

I love the car on it.

No birds yet, our other bird house went almost a whole year before birds moved in.

However, i put a boatload of bird seed all over it after I took the pics,

a bunch in the pickup bed, a bunch on the roof, all over the ground.

So, they will know it's there and maybe move in soon.


I'v got a postive attitude, maybe get some in there in a few weeks,

then I will kill them and cook them on my bar-b-q, and it' will be some good eats!!!





I'v gone too far. No, just let them live in peace and enjoy their beauty.

im sure those birds will come whith that car out front

I made a second one, and decided to go for a totally different look.


I wanted tacky colors, like yellow and light blue, and green. I also went to the local hobby store, and got some cheapo trees, a couple of park benchs, an old truck, etc.


And a stone walkway.


I made some windows out of board and matchsticks.


I had a pewter cowboy dude with a wheelbarrow full of gold, and put him up as kind of a weather-vane thingy at roof top.


A guy at work had a big piece of rose marble and broke it, and gave it to me,

I busted it up with a hammer, and made small cubes of them, and made a privacy fence out of it.


It's the tackiest thing you ever seen. Which is what I was shooting for.


(The next birdhouse will be a log cabin style fort, with no paint.)


I tried some floresent yellow on the windows, etc, and put a black light on it, and it' looked so very cool at night, I took a pic.


But, it was too tacky, even for this project, it hurt my eyes when it was just in the normal light. (looked awesome with the blacklight on it, I hated to lose it).


So I went with a flat yellow, and it came out better.


I don't have it mounted on the pole yet, will do that someday.


Work has put me on 12 hours days, and working Sundays as well.

So, I got no time to take care of the important stuff.


Like building birdhouses.


Anyhow, I found a fun hobby.

Though, after the log cabin fort, I think I will quit.

3 huge birdhouses is enough.


This one I just built is humongous, it's made of 4x4's on the bottom, and I can barely lift it.

Those rocks don't help.

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I want a birdhouse! Sandy June is so lucky to have a handy husband. All my birdhouses are store bought, but painted by me. They have all sorts of colors on them. I let the kids pick the colors, so it is pretty crazy out in my tree.

Take a pic.

And post it in here. Might give me some good ideas.



my next one is going to be a gigantic fort, log cabin thingy. Me and Sandy will be able to live in it, if a tornado gets the house we live in now.






yeah, take some pics, post em in here.

wow glow in the dark bird house that is so cool

I put the black light back on it, and parts of the floresent paint is still on there, so parts of it still glow.


You know what would be neat, is a glow in the dark train. Paint it floresent colors, then put a black light on it, and let it go around the track.

I bet kids would love that.

that would be so cool

I made a third birdhouse, but I'm not done painting it. I will post it later. I made it 8 feet high and 8 inches wide. So it's a skyscraper.

It has 10 holes in it, so it's 10 birdhouses in one.



I went out today with muffin and was walking around the yard, and was watching the birds, and was amazed at how many different ones I seen.

It's a bird zoo out there. I sat in the yard chair towards the end of the property and watched them about an hour.

I was going to get the camera and take pics, but then I figured, why bother with all that? Any bird I see, I can find a better pic of it on the net anyhow.

So, I got on the net and got some pics of the birds we have and will post them here.

There were some bigger birds, grayish, I couldn't tell what they were. I can't figure out what they are, so I won't post them. If I had to guess, I would say they are some species of Sparrow.

Female Cardinal. These are my favorite. The coloring on them is just brilliant. The Orange of the beak is extraordinary.
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Male Carninal. Bright red, very pleasing bird to look at.
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Downy Woodpecker . I got a few of these guys, they are awesome. Mine have a bigger section of red on their head than this one, more poofy.
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Bluejay . They are loud and obnoxious, but still fun birds to see.
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Eastern Bluebird . My second favorite bird. Absolutley stunning colors. We have quite a few of these.
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Tufted Titmouse . These guys don't have the best coloring, but still neato birds. the second most common in the yard.
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Blackcap Chickadee . I love the black cap. This is our most common bird here. the biggest eater of the feed we put out.
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Starling. This is that black bird that migrates and fills the yard with 100's at one time. I didn't see any today. They infest the yard and make a lot of noise. A lot of fun.
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Mourning Dove . I saw some in the tree tops today, brownish doves. I don't know what they eat, I have never seen any on the bird feeder.

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I got some Kildeer . They aint much to look at. They dive bomb you in the yard and make noise.
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Anyhow, the first snow, when it's white out, and the bird are attacking the bird feeders, I will get some pics of my own. But they will be long shots, wont' be as good as the internet pics. I don't have a telephoto lens. I wish I did.

It's so awesome to sit outside on the porch and drink coffee and watch these birds.

***Whidden embraces his old age with dignity***



aight, I'm gonna add them as I see them to this post, instead of later on in the thread. I been seeing newer birds the more I look.
Saw a red headed wood pecker today, that was awesome.

Red Headed Woodpecker
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Robin
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its great even with the first snow? ... id love to be there though, and brilliant that you are atracting so many birds with your houses

sldo do you have any birds nesting in them?

well, for some reason when it snows, them bird "panic" and think they will never get food again.


Every bird within miles will come around and hit the bird feeders.


We had feeders set up when we lived in the trailer park, and every snow, they got full of every kind of bird.


Plus, as an extra bonus, you can see them so much better against the white of the snow.



I have birds nesting in the older birdhouse that my mother in law made. Two of them live in there.


I don't think any are living in the other two I have put up recently. They all go and rest on them, and feed off them, I put a bunch of birdseed on both of them.


I don't think any are living in them yet.


Probably the spring, they will move in.

Its strange because when it gets cold, wet or windy all the animals disapear (at least i dont see them) i sunder stand that the wind makes it hard for birds, and the cold for that matter, but not to see ONE ...

Pics of the third birdhouse, which with the new roof I put on it, is 9 feet high.


It's a skyscraper. 10 Birdhouses in one. I am very curious to see how many levels will be inhabited.

I used a branch to hang it from, then nailed the bottom straight to the tree.


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you can see it again behind the second one I made.


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Everytime I read a whidden thread like this I want a bunch of land so I can do stuff like this too.

Right now I'm just waiting for the weather to stop sucking so we can go camping.

Maybe spelunking again.

That was sweet.

Yeah, trailer parks blow.

I think it'd be cool to have a junkyard thing going too.

Or just a shop with a bunch of random materials. Like on mythbusters.

Then I'd just build/blow stuff up all day.

i dont know i think food is put out there everyday, i just dont see the birds eat it, it does disapear i think

I went and took some pics, took about 30 and only one turned out.


Which is sad, because I saw a full red headed wood pecker. He was awesome.

I never seen one before. I have the standard downy wood pecker, with the red tuft on the back of the head, but his guy had the full red head.



The only pic that turned out was of a cardinal.


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Do wood peckers actually peck wood?
Will they peck holes in your birdhouse?

how do you think wood peckers make there houses in the tree truncks? there called wood PECKERS because they peck holes in the wood

awww. I am totally jealous. You have cool looking birds where you live. We get pigeons, doves, and some really strange birds that show up for the winter. We get these ones that look like cardianls, but they are all black. We have lots of mocking birds, and there is a pair of bright yellow and black birds that show up in our yard in the spring. I want cute red birds.

can i have one to?

I am in Perth on the West Coast, Adelaide is on the South-East coast Adelaide is about 2700 Kilometres, or about 40 hours drive away from me.

AH HA! I found out that my funky little punk birds are called phainopepla birds! They come every winter to eat my pomegrante seeds.

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I bought this yesterday at Home Depot.


I cut some birdhouse stuff tonight. I am making a hepagon, which is a 7 sided polygon, that will go around the tree.


It looks like a Cylon Battlestar to tell the truth.


Anyhow, I am addicted to this birdhouse building, it's just a lot of fun. And as I have 53 large oaks, I can build a lot of them and never ever run out of room.


I won't be done with the birdhouse for a couple of weeks I guess, a lot of stuff to do still.


But my old arm is feeling better, not having to cut all the wood by handsaw.

This band saw cuts awesome!


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ooh, I seen one of these today, was freaked out!


Took me a long time to find it on the net. It had a bright yellow head and a black and white back.


It was a Black Throated Green Warbler. Why it's called green I don't know, it was yellow. On the head part. the rest was black and white.


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Is it in our bird book? Is it rare to see one in Oklahoma?

Here is the yellow one, with the purple finch behind it, I can't get close enough for good pics, they came out grainy and messed up.



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I'm almost done with the hepagon birdhouse, I just have to hook it up to the tree.


I will get some pics of it then.



Today I got a sweet pic of a squirrel up on the first birdhouse I made, the ranch one.


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I finished the 7 sided one today and put it on the tree.


I was very happy with it before the tree, but after putting it up, the boards I used to prop it up there kind of take away from it.


I will get used to it I guess.

I had fun making it though, I like the color it came out when I put the stain on it.

I also put a perching rail around the front of each house, so the birds could perch on it if they want.


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It was attack of the mourning doves at the Whidden's.


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Made this yellow one for a lady at work, but I plan on making a copy of it in a few weeks to keep for myself.

Is it alumiating yellow? so the night birds can eat?

Do you disign the bird houses for different types of birds? like if you want a sparrow or a robin you would make it so or so sized?

No, this one is just a normal yellow. Though bright.


The lady said she had birds in her garage, and wanted a house for them, so it's going in a garage, at the top.


I guess she doesn't have a door on it, I dunno. Anyhow, she helped get me a bunch of free lumber, so I told her I would make one for her.

thats nice of you .. a nabour?

I dont know much about what birds are around your area ... We get colard doves, and some smaller birds ... none nest but we have food out ...

why not have a few bigger holded boxes for the robins and cardinals ... or is 1.25 the biggest hole (biggest drill part) you can make?

I got a bunch of Squirrels. I worry if I make the hole too big, they will get in and run out the birds.


I don't know the biggest hole I can make without that happening, I guess I could research it on the net.

well find out how big a squirrels skill or arm length is then make it slightly smaller, or longer ... Could be a better way ...

That's huge Whidden!

Very very cool!

thank you, I don't want to give it away now. But I told her she would have it Monday morning.


I still have lots and lots of YELLOW paint, so I'm good for the future.

Whose big truck is that in the upper right portion of the picture...???

I think I spot binoculars.

My neighbor, the drug dealer, it's his old yard truck. some kind of truck/van hybrid. Been there for years and hasn't moved.


Probably full of dope.

I am amazed at David's bird house building skills. I think he is becoming a good carpenter. He made us a deck to set the grill on. The neighbor who sold us this property uses that land back there for storage and junk. There is a big feild to the right of there that when Muffin and Winston accidently get let out together they take off for and stay gone for a couple of hours. There must be plenty of rabbits to chase there.

His birdhouses are awesome.

Wait until he makes ones with little shingles on the roof. He is going to keep growing with his skills. The birdhouses are really great.