martin house

Ants in the birdhouse
In category Birds & Birding
Written by Kurtz

Last year I maid a purple martin house out of old pine ingenuously shelving from a local busines that threw them out with the trash. I also found a few handles, some hinges and was thinkin big at the time Here's what it looked like this time last year:

http://home.ptd.net/~vstevans/Sep06_01.jpg

I made a bunch of mistakes on the above "vesrion 1.0" The entrance holes were too small, only

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re:Metal birdhouses?
In category Outdoors & Photography Gear
Written by Gorm_the_Red

My neighbor is moving. Among many other items he threw out were a half dozen small grey metal filing cabinets, the type which would hold
3"x5" cards. They are about 18" long. I was thikninmg of pianting the uotside white and drilling a hole on the side and makin it a birdhouse. Any thoughts? The intertior seems perfect for a bird that requires 4"x4" space (ie 1 to 1-1/4 inch dia hole).

Maybe

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