Birdhouse

RickieD this is wonderful :)
I know you must be as proud of this as I am (not that I did anything more than give moral support during the process).

It looks wonderful in the backyard and even if a bird doesn’t make it a home I am going to enjoy looking at it every day!

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Great execution!

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Welcome back, Rickie.

Wow! this looks so much like a early 20th century house. Aged and very realistic. If I was a bird, I’d gladly make this home.

It sort of looks like the Ettamogah Pubs in Australia

-- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.canterburybaptist.org/

you are right Don, it does!!

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

A great looking house.
I bet by now you have a long line of would be occupant’s, just waiting to start their new families.

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

actually, Dick… we haven’t seen a bird go near it!!! Perhaps it is too fresh or in the wrong spot.

But Rick’s other 2 birdhouses are full. 1) bluebirds and 2) barn swallows.
It is really fun to watch them come and go.

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

great job. Lots of detail and character.

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Vincent Van Gogh -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

thanks, Scott. I’ll pass that along to Rick.

Every slat for the siding were cut individually. He has more patience than I do!!!
And the windows have little copper-wire … window dividers, whatever they are called.
It is SO cute.

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Rick’s birdhouse finally got a family of birds living in it.
We’ve had a few visitors and lots of nest builders but none of them stayed until now.

It looks so funny to see the little babies peeking out the upstairs window!

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

we had to do surgery on the little guy seen here. If you look closely you can see a tuft of something stuck on his mouth.. well he had a jumble of nesting stuff, I guess, stuck around his little tongue.

Yesterday he ended up in the downstairs apartment some how and I watched him and saw the mess he was in… so Rick climbed the ladder and captured him and we gentle removed the nesting material only to find that his little tongue was broken, stuck outside his mouth and was all dried up… so we cut the broken piece off and put him back in the house.

He immediately came back out and flew away… and a second bird tried to follow but ended up on the ground with a cat quickly pouncing on him. We rescued him, put him back in the nest and Mama (thank goodness) doesn’t seem to mind and is still feeding him and a third little birdie which has avoided any traumatic experiences that we know of !!

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Yeek…looks like it should have a little Birdie Bates Motel just down the hill from it. All kidding aside…nope, can’t say that with a straight face…however, nice bird 2 storey.

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

it was fun watching a bird in each of the “apartments”. I can’t imagine seeing one of John’s Extreme Birdhouses to capacity…

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)