Unique Birdhouse Boutique

Cavity dwelling birds face a very sad real estate problem…good homes are not so easy to come by these days. Mostly because of the vast destruction of natural habitat giving way to strip malls, schools, and more subdivisions. But also from the competition of non-native species. Just who brought over those House Sparrows anyway?

An educational and fun way to provide real nest sites for your feathered friends is with birdhouse kits. The standard wooden kits are widely available, even as bird feeders and bat house kits. Mostly crafted of durable cedar, they’ll provide many seasons of use and enjoyment. Lately, recycled plastics are the new craze in wild bird accessories, and they’re awesome as far as durability. Most are guaranteed to never crack, split or fade, plus they help to keep these plastics out of landfills. No worries of squirrels gnawing on them like traditional wooden bird accessories.

These recycled birdhouse kits have a unique design that’s fun to assemble, for little kids and big kids too. The groovy designs and vibrant colors are just plain fun, and best of all they provide great nesting sites, as well as roosting spots for wild birds. The 1.25″ entrance is perfect for many small to medium-sized birds, and the perch is removable. These recycled plastic birdhouse kits add a splash of color in the yard, and will look great for years too.

Innovative and fun to assemble, these recycled plastic birdhouse kits provide real nest sites for feathered friends. The vibrant color combinations (and patterns too) will have young and old admiring them for their simplicity and charm. No tools are required for assembly, and they make great projects for a rainy day at home, and for youth or church groups.

The non-toxic plastic is safe for birds, and ensures many seasons of use and enjoyment. With a 1.25-inch opening, these birdhouse kits are perfect for small to medium size songbirds. The hardest part is picking out the color!

With a severe shortage in natural nesting sites, you can help birds to flourish and thrive in your neck of the woods by providing birdhouses for them to raise their young. Birdhouse kits like these also provide great roosting spots for cold winter nights. Please help house the birds!

First came wooden birdhouse kits, followed by wood bird feeder kits and wood bat houses. Now there’s an eco-friendly version of the birdhouse and feeder kits that are guaranteed to last. Helping to keep plastics out of our landfills, they’re fun for the whole family, and provide birds a real nest box to raise their brood. These new kits come with a plush, stuffed animal bird for your little one to learn about bird sounds. Complete with stickers for decorating, it’s recommended for ages 5 and up.

With nesting season gearing up, wooden birdhouse kits or recycled kits are a great way to help feathered friends in your area. Offer up some nesting material to further entice birds to your yard, and a fresh water source like a bird bath…fresh water is the single, best bird attractor out there!

Please help house the birds!

As nesting season gears up, many cavity-dwelling birds will search for decent diggs to raise their young. But the market is tough for them as well, with the ratio of birds to houses being way upside down, and destruction of habitat at an all-time high. You can provide real homes, or nest boxes utilizing wood birdhouse kits.

The kits make for great projects with the kids on a rainy day, church groups, or any youth groups. The kit shown here is a quality, eastern pine version of a window nest box. View the nest and babies from within your home. So these wood birdhouse kits don’t stop with the assembly, they’ll still bring enjoyment year after year to both viewers and feathered friends alike!

Take on a fun project with kids that will really make a difference to wild birds.  With the nesting season in full swing, birdhouses are far and few between in correlation to the numbers of nesting birds. Destruction of habitat, and competition by non-native birds are the main culprits.

Birdhouse Kits are great way to lend a hand to feathered friends, while teaching children the crucial message of stewardship. There’s so many types from which to choose too: chickadee houses, wren houses, bat houses, and bluebird houses can be created once and used year after year.

Help wild birds thrive in your area utilizing creative birdhouse kit projects. The kit shown at left is even for adults! Totally green with it’s unique folding assembly, the recycled laminated paper folds together ingeniously. A cotton hanging strap makes for easy installation, and you can paint them however suits your fancy! Add some nesting material nearby and invite feathered friends to stick around your yard.

Great Projects for Young, Old, & In Between!

What better projects than those of conservation and nature to instill a sense of stewardship in children from ages 5 to 105? Birdhouses, and bird feeders are key ingredients to creating wildlife-friendly habitats that will enrich, encourage, and entertain feathered friends and their people hosts alike.

As urban sprawl gives way to more natural habitats at an alarming rate, so many lessons can be taught through simple projects like wood birdhouse kits.  Whether scouts, school and church groups, or social activities, these kinds of projects help to raise an awareness about our very own immediate environments and how to enhance them. High quality, inexpensive kits are available in feeders, bat houses and may types of bird houses too. It’s easy to create wildlife habitat with proper nesting sites, and help wild birds thrive and flourish in your area.

For many folks creating something is much like letting their spirit soar! Craft projects have become wildly popular as stress relievers, money savers, and just plain relaxing enjoyment.

You can create functional items for feathered friends like houses and feeders that will be used again and again. By providing real nesting sites with birdhouse kits, you’ll entice more cavity-dwelling birds to nest and take up residence in your yard. After all, isn’t this what backyard birding is all about?

Wooden Birdhouse kits are available in feeders and bat houses too, and make for  excellent projects with kids of all ages.

Be it church groups, scouts, or even school science curriculum, there’s no better way to teach kids about nature, wildlife, and the world around them.

Thanks to The Cornell Lab of Orinithology’s “NestWatch” and affiliated citizen-science projects, teachers are provided with the tools they need to set up nest box trails at schools, through the “Home Tweet Home” partnership with Nature and PBS. Some schools are even monitoring nests as part of a new NSF-funded initiative called “Communicating Climate Change”, aimed at community projects that seek out local indicators of climate change.  In Ithaca, NY, Dewitt Middle School students monitor nests in wooden birdhouse kits, and record data such as first egg date, a critical piece of information used by researchers to understand how birds are responding to climate change.

For more information on existing cirricula, or after-school and environmental activities, please visit www.nestwatch.org

Looking for an interesting project with kids? For church groups, scout groups, or school activities, there’s no better way for children to learn about nature and conservation.

Bird Feeder and Wood Birdhouse kits can teach kids to actually experience nature, conservation, the great outdoors. Projects like this also allow children to take an active role in improving their environment.

The Cornell Lab of Orinithology’s Nest Watch Program and other Citizen-Science groups provides teachers with the tools necessary to set up Nest Box Trails at schools, through the “Home Tweet Home” partnership with nature and PBS.

Please visit Nestwatch.org for more information.

Great Project Overview for Virtually any Organized Kids’ Group: Doing good in your community!

Birds For Brains How To:
Birds For Brains is such a rewarding program for kids, seniors and coordinators alike (the birds too!). If done right it will not take much funding at all to start and run.

- First Off and Most Importantly the Volunteers- BFB is set up specifically to get kids of any age involved. Daycares, scout groups, 4H, classrooms or any group with kids at any age (or if you just have one child that you would like to get accustomed to doing good for the community.) At least one adult to plan and implement the program is needed or a group of adults such as an Audubon Chapter to oversee the children.

- The Site- The easiest step is to find a place to visit and set up the bird feeders. Nursing or Assisted Living Homes, a retirement home or a single family home with a senior or disabled individual are in every neighborhood and will welcome the program and the enrichment that comes with it.

- Bird Feeders- Many ways to keep the costs down, BFB was initially set up to recycle wood from discarded fence panels or scrap that can be found around town. This idea was thought of not only to recycle and help the environment but also to have another hands on activity for the youth. Any fencing or construction company can direct you to scrap wood that could be used and Google is great to find Do-it-yourself plans to build the feeders.

We have not yet built any feeders for the program because once word got out about the program donations of feeders were given. We immediatley received a couple from the local Audubon Society Chapter and then as we approached Critters Feed and Seed to fill the feeders they to donated many feeders, not to mention the Birdhouse Chick donating 2 large rainbow finch feeders.

- Seed- If you live in a larger community you have a feed store in the area that you can approach. This is great on so many areas, you are starting a relationship with a local company and shopping local (rather than the big box stores), the seed will be of the best quality, and the relationship you start will help the local seed store by spreading the word that they have helped a good cause out and hopefully will attract new business.

Critters Feed and Seed in Moorhead, MN has been a wonderful partner and I cannot thank them enough!! When possible they get ‘sweepings’ from their seed supplier that would otherwise go to waste. This causes some additional work for the supplier and the vendor but when they hear that the seed is going to the Birds For Brains program they will be happy to offer the help. I have to mention that at times ‘sweepings’ are not available and Critters has been more than kind to donate seed off the shelf!

If you do not have a seed store contact a grain elevator, local pet store or any location that offers bird seed. Make sure you explain where the seed is going and the Mission of BFB.

- Visiting the Site- We ask that you stop by once a week or at the very least every other week to fill the feeders, clean the bird baths and spend some time visiting and interacting with the residents. Make sure that the activities coordinator knows when you will be there. Get involved and play games do activities or just visit.

This may be too much of a committment for some, so get a couple families or groups together and take turns at the site. If you have a few get together a once a month committment won’t be any trouble, but most kids that get involved will probably want to do it more often

Bird Feeder and Birdhouse Kits are also an inexpensive option for starting a site in your area.

For more information, please visit 3littlebirdsonline.com website.