[birdky] Re: cheap bird housing
- From: "Mike Tobbe" <mtobbe@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lyneart@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "'BIRDKY Freelists'" <birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:55:42 -0500
If we could just motivate Maxwell House to mold the container with grooves
for a metal T post ...
Mike Tobbe
Little Mount
Spencer County
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Subject: [birdky] cheap bird housing
The jury is still out on whether this will have been a good idea, but I
decided to see if birds would use an empty 34.5 oz. plastic Maxwell House
coffee container for a bird house. This morning I found a Bluebird nest with
3 eggs in the one I put up about a month ago. All I did was cut an entrance
hole in the upper corner opposite the handle, drill some drain holes in the
bottom and drill a hole in the handle to bolt it to a metal upright salvaged
from a piece of junk farm machinery. With only one bolt holding it to its
upright, I had trouble at first with the cows nudging it sideways while
sniffing it to see what it was. Not having a second hole in the metal
upright to run a bolt through, I wrapped wire around the bottom of the
handle and the metal upright to keep it in place. Soon after making this
adjustment, I saw some nest material in the container.
Since I'm about out of scrap metal for uprights, I may invest in some
PVC pipe if I decide to make bird houses out of all the coffee containers we
have accumulated. With PVC uprights, I can use two bolts to fasten the
handle to the pipe.
I noticed an interesting thing about these containers just now while
writing this post. They're all exactly the same size, but the oldest one had
39 oz. of coffee in it, newer ones had 34.5 oz. and the newest one had 33
oz. All of them say there is enough for 270 cups. I suppose they mean 270
incrementally smaller cups.
Frank Lyne
frank@xxxxxxxxxxx - near Dot in Logan County, KY
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