Handmade Bird, Bee, and Bat Houses: 25 beautiful homes, feeders, and more to attract wildlife into your garden

by Michele McKee-Orsini

Overview

Build and craft 25 beautiful small homes and feeders to attract wildlife to your backyard.

Build and craft 25 beautiful small homes and feeders to attract wildlife to your backyard.

Handmade Bird, Bee, and Bat Houses features homes to build for everything from bees to bats, and bluebirds to butterflies. Each house is beautifully designed, with colorful details, but is also perfectly adapted for its intended inhabitants. There are birdhouses you can hang up or place on stands, a bee house you can “plant” in your flowerbed, and there's even a home for a toad. There are also feeders for birds and butterflies, and homes for ladybugs. With her trademark attention to detail, Michele McKee-Orsini has designed a collection of miniature palaces for the wildlife that we should all be encouraging into our backyards. Michele takes you through the basic woodworking and decorating skills you will need, and the step-by-step project instructions, clear artwork, and stunning photography will all inspire you to build your own bird, bee, and bat houses.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781782495543
Publisher:	Ryland Peters & Small
Publication date:	03/13/2018
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	8.70(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Michele McKee-Orsini is an artist and wildlife enthusiast who loves nothing more than walking through the woods near her home looking for unusual pieces of wood to turn into birdhouses. She now makes and sells a stunning range of birdhouses, always with the bird’s needs foremost. This is her first book. Find her at www.naturaluniquebirdhouses.com. The author is based in Yucaipa, California.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

Basic birdhouse 8

Chapter 1 Birdhouses 10

Retro birdhouse 12

Cottage birdhouse condo 16

Owl house 20

Barn birdhouse 24

Dresser drawer birdhouse 28

Airplane birdhouse 32

Woodpecker house 36

Crooked birdhouse 40

Chapter 2 Bird Feeders 44

Swing bench bird feeder 46

Hip bird feeder 50

Bird shelter 54

Wine bottle feeder 57

Cup and saucer bird feeder 60

Hanging material basket 64

Bird perch swing 67

Chapter 3 Bees and Butterflies 70

Cozy bee hotel 72

Bee house 75

Mason bee log home 78

Butterfly feeding station 81

Butterfly house 84

Chapter 4 Bats, Bugs, and Toads 88

Single chamber bat house 90

Ladybug house 94

Toad house 98

Double chamber bat house 102

Hotel Ladybug 106

Tools and materials 110

Techniques and guidance 112

Index 126

Picture credits 127

Suppliers and acknowledgments 128