Bird House Patterns - Some Tips Before You Buy

For the handymen and handy women among us, Bird house patterns are a short cut to helping us build the perfect bird house for the species that we're trying to attract to our garden.

Your choice of bird house patterns is extremely important when deciding to build your bird house, especially if you're not an expert on birds. Even if you're a beginner, it's probably best to avoid your first instinct that tells you to simply choose the pattern that looks the easiest to build. The primary factor in searching for the perfect bird house pattern should be finding one that is specific to the species of bird you're trying to attract. Failure to do so could result in you either attracting the wrong kinds of birds or no birds at all.

So if you want to attract blue birds, select one of the many blue bird house patterns. Likewise, if you want to attract robins, search for robin bird house patterns. Often, the most difficult part of choosing a pattern is deciding what kind of birds you want to attract to your yard.

How Do You Choose from Many Bird House Patterns?

For any bird species, however, you'll often find many bird house patterns available to you - so how do you choose? In general look for bird house patterns that have taken into account simple things like birdhouse ventilation, easy removable bases for seasonal cleaning, and predator protection.

Where To Find Bird House Patterns

1) www.birdsandblooms.com - This website has many free bird house patterns available for you to select from. The plans included cover bird feeders, bird house painting patterns, tole painting patterns, craft patterns, and a lot more.

In addition, a fun part of their web site even has plans specifically for kids. Here you'll find unusual bird house patterns such as the one for the coffee can birdhouse at www.birdsandblooms.com which will show your kid how to recycle coffee cans and scrap wood to build a unique bird house.

2) www.birdhousebuzz.com - a little difficult to navigate and find what you want, but you'll find dozens of bird house patterns (some partial, some full) along with quite a few tips on building bird houses. A good example are their patterns for building a bluebird bird house at www.birdhousebuzz.com

3) www.thewoodcrafter.net - Interesting and informative site. This is a pay site. This offers the best of both worlds - building vs. buying. You can choose to either purchase bird house patterns or you can purchase an actual bird house built from that pattern .

Creative Bird House Patterns

Bird houses don't have to be boring. After all, it's not illegal to include parts of your personality into the bird houses that you place in your garden. Allow yourself to branch out a bit and look for unusual bird house patterns such as ones that allow you to build barn bird house, lighthouse bird houses, star trek starship, and so on. Of course, the bird house has to appeal to the birds, but there's no reason why it can't appeal to your creative side also.

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