Ideas For Your Backyard

Fairy-tale fantasy birdhouse mounts quickly onto any wall, post or tree trunk, creating a quirky decoration and a welcome rest stop for weary flyers. Back contains a mounting slot and trap door for easy cleaning.

All the little birdies will love this elegant birdhouse that adds a touch of genteel charm to your garden with a slender steep roof shape an gingerbread trimmed balcony. Mutiple entries for easy in and out.

I have surely missed hearing the birds sing. At last the last few days with the warmer temperatures the birds are coming back! I sit on the porch and listen to them call and sing to each other as they flit about looking for materials to build their nests. I love the decorative birdhouses and have several. Are you a fan of backyard birding?

What a fun way to decorate and still give a bird shelter during the holidays. Everyone’s welcome for the holidays, including your fine feathered friends!

A clever Christmas tree ornament doing double duty as a minature decorative birdhouses. Hang this ornament on your Christmas Tree.

This is a very busy time of year.  The holidays are right around the corner and we are making our plans.  As we are out and about doing our shopping don’t forget to purchase suet cakes and bird food for your decorative bird feeders.  If you have been feeding the birds through the summer you must continue during the cold weather.  These little guys have been counting on you to continue providing for their next meal.

Whether or not you choose a decorate birdhouse or a hanging wren bird house really doesn’t matter.  I don’t think the birds really care.  They’re more concerned about getting in out of the weather.  The bird houses offer them a place to rest, build a nest, or shelter them from the wind, rain, heat or cold.

Having bird houses also offer you the opportunity to learn more about the bird.  Their habits, nesting routines and rituals, mating practices, their singing etc.  This is a good pastime/hobby for you, your children and/or grandchildren.

Whether you hang birdhouses or birdfeeders or both really is just your preferences.  Birdhouses will offer shelter from the heat, cold, wind and rain, while the birdfeeders will feed them.  If your goal is to learn more about the birds that frequent your premises I would advise that you hang both.  You also might consider planting trees, bushes and a variety of plants that will specifically lure the birds in.

Swallows are really very pretty. In fact, most birds are.

Swallows are excellent fliers, and use these skills to attract a mate and to feed. Some species, like the mangrove swallow, are territorial, whereas others are not and simply defend their nesting site. In general, the males select a nest site, and then attract a female using song and flight, and (dependent on the species) guard their territory. The size of the territory varies depending on the species of swallow; in colonial-nesting species it tends to be small, but it may be much larger for solitary nesters. Outside of the breeding season some species may form large flocks, and species may also roost communally. This is thought to provide protection from predators.  For the most part swallows are insectivorous, but some will feed on fruits and other plants. Doyou have swallow bird houses?

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A lighthouse is a tower, building, or framework designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses or, in older times, from a fire and used as an aid to navigation and to pilots at sea.

Lighthouses are used to mark dangerous coastlines, hazardous shoals and reefs, and safe entries to harbors and can also assist in aerial navigation. Once widely used, the number of operational lighthouses has declined due to the expense of maintenance and replacement by modern electronic navigational aids.

My Lighthouse Birdhouse reminds me of my trip to the ocean.