One for the birds

[Dalboy]

Been making these for part a Christmas present. Made from a pair of bi-fold doors that got damaged when they where being installed.

 

[Kardav]

Very nice Derek, they look well made.

 

[Vic Perrin]

Very nice Derek

Vic

 

[Twister]

always something new

like them
and fantastic carving

Steve

 

[Grump]

Very nice indeed and a great thing for the future of bird population.
I made a tit box for our garden when the kids where at home and they loved watching them make their nest and rear the young to flight.
Web cams where still a very new and expensive thing at the time but I nicked a cctv camera from work and managed to get some shots of activity in the box.
The last two years the tits visited we lost them all, first we thought they had been blighted with some bird illness which killed them.
Then I saw the neighbours cat jumping from our wheelie bin and catching them as they came out of the hole.
Cat ended up in a hole of its own but the birds never returned to our box.

 

[chas_41_uk]

I made a tit box for our garden

Nope I'm not going there .... i want to, but I'm not doing it :wink:

 

[Penpal]

Nope I'm not going there .... i want to, but I'm not doing it :wink:

Slinging off fellas.

Peter.

 

[Woody]

They are very nice Derek well done mate Violet now wants some bird boxes thanks LOL

 

[Dalboy]

They are very nice Derek well done mate Violet now wants some bird boxes thanks LOL

Your welcome Woody just getting my own back now for you showing the tea light holders that my wife saw, which I now have to make

 

[Buckeye]

A nice pair of bird houses

Peter

 

[Terry]

Lovely work Derek !!!!

 

[Jim]

Seen something like the bird box in a local garden center for nearly £30 Derek, nowhere near as good as this my friend ..

 

[wm460]

Very nice Derek, well done.

 

[paulm]

Very nice Derek, they'll make a great present.

Oh and Brian, how is your neighbour

 

[Dalboy]

Thanks guys. The one on the right is a bird feeder you can make out the perspex sheet in the front. Well that is all the presents that need making which are being collected to go to Gloucestershire. Now to get back onto the Bandsawn boxes.
At least the car is road worthy again for another year passed the MOT. Just got to get Friday over with and back to normal, mind you the missus will not let me out to the shed for a couple of days she worries.

 

[rowdyyates115]

Nice bit of woodworking Derek....

 

[Lons]

Nice pair of tit houses Derek
Must have taken a lot of watching to make sure they're the right size

Well, somebody had to say it!

 

[Winemaker]

Nice they look good

 

[Buckeye]

Looking again at them, they jogged a memory from about 20 years ago, My wife ran the local Brownies and the Guides branch and she got me to cut out the sides, bottom, tops, fronts and backs so that the girls could assemble with a few tacks and instead of hinges I used inner tube rubber which the girls stapled to the top and back. They were a great hit with the girls as they could take them home to put in the garden and they were proud that they had made them, I think I cut out about 20 sets.

Peter

 

[Lons]

the girls could assemble with a few tacks and instead of hinges I used inner tube rubber which the girls stapled to the top and back. Peter

I make loads of them and inner tube or plastic DPC is what I use. Better than hinges as it stops water getting into the box. I use screws to assemble though.