Woodworking for Wildlife: Homes for Birds and Animals

About this book

For everyone who enjoys attracting wildlife to their backyard farm woodlot or lakeshore home Woodworking for Wildlife is the perfect resource. With all the latest information on how to attract everything from bluebirds chickadees purple martins and wood ducks to bumblebees toads owls and woodpeckers the book features thirty designs for nest boxes and nest platforms that will accommodate forty-six species of wildlife. It provides easy-to-follow diagrams for cutting out and assembling the nest boxes accompanied by over three hundred beautiful color photographs. Carrol L. Henderson has dramatically improved and expanded the book with the best techniques for building placing and managing nest boxes. He provides new information on how to eliminate predation on nest boxes by raccoons and cats as well as how to reduce competition from exotic species such as house sparrows and starlings. The book also includes new designs for houses for flickers great crested flycatchers toads bumblebees buffleheads and purple martins. Woodworking for Wildlife is a great reference for backyard wildlife enthusiasts conservationists youth group leaders teachers woodworking instructors and parents and grandparents who are looking for outdoor projects to do with children.