| Project by William Bentley Jr | posted 1080 days ago | 1258 views | 5 times favorited | 7 comments |  |
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This was a spur of the moment type thing. I had alot of scraps laying around the shop and it hit me, a birdhouse with no worries of snakes. Most birdhouses you have to open the side or the front, well if a snake is there you just got bit. With this house you simply slide the bottom out of the house. I put a dado cut on both sides and the back, the front is cut a inch short to allow the bottom to slide. Along with a vent in the back and 2, 1/2 vents on both sides you get a real rounded bid house!
-- William, http://customwoodshop.webs.com , http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bentleys-Woodworking/217746434941356
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Tom
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#1 posted 1080 days ago
I like it William, nice and simple design.
-- Tom
Eric_Somerville
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#2 posted 1080 days ago
it’s stuff like this that makes me happy I live in the Canadian maritimes….no snakes to worry about here; especially in birdhouses.
-- EDS
Jim Crockett (USN Retired)
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#3 posted 1080 days ago
Very nice birdhouse – I’m sure they will be very happy with their new accommodations. Snakes in birdhouses? I live in Maine and we have no poisonous snakes – have never heard of snakes being in anyone’s birdhouses. Snakes can climb trees? Shows what I know about snakes – we have garden snakes, that’s about it. When I saw the roof, first thing I thought was that it would be a perfect location for a small solar array. Guess it could power a night light for the birdies, eh?
Jim
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#4 posted 1080 days ago
Very nice birdhouse William. I’m not that far from you and we can find a variety of snakes in a variety of places.
-- Donnie-- listen to the wood.
William Bentley Jr
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#5 posted 1080 days ago
Yea my dad found 2 black snakes in one house a yr or so ago
-- William, http://customwoodshop.webs.com , http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bentleys-Woodworking/217746434941356
NormG
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#6 posted 1080 days ago
Great project
-- Norman
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#7 posted 1078 days ago
nice bird house
Thanks for sharing
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