Bird Houses, Baths and Feeding Shelters: How to Make and Where to Place Them

A practical manual explaining how to construct, position, and maintain nesting boxes, baths, and feeding stations for a variety of species. It corrects common misconceptions, describes suitable materials, entrance sizes, cleaning facilities, and techniques to discourage invasive tenants such as English Sparrows and Starlings. Species-specific plans and dimensions are provided for wrens, chickadees, nuthatches, swallows, bluebirds, flycatchers, woodpeckers including flickers, purple martins, tree-nesting ducks, hawks, owls, finches, robins, and phoebes. The guide also covers colony houses, mounting and siting recommendations, and illustrated designs for baths and winter feeding arrangements.