How To Create A Hummingbird Nest Box That Attracts These Colorful Garden Visitors

Nest boxes are birdhouse alternatives that suit hummingbirds, who don't favor full enclosures. This DIY comes together with wood scraps and a few tools.
The Morning Sun

Is your backyard birdhouse a death trap? How to give birds safe shelter

I wanted to build a first-class home. Small enough to be cozy, but big enough to raise a family. I needed an ideal location, near a wooded area, with a natural supermarket nearby. And the design ...
Yahoo! Sports

Important bluebird basics: When sightings increase in New York, how to maximize nest boxes

Happy March! As I write this it is March 1 – the beginning of a very nice forecast for the first half of this typically winter-like month. Who knows what the end of March and all of April will bring ...
Tyler Morning Telegraph

Boxed In: Properly placed and maintained duck nesting boxes help build populations

Nesting boxes were an important factor in rebuilding wood duck numbers during the 20th century. (Steve Knight/Tyler Morning Telegraph) I got the great idea last fall to build a wood duck box for a ...
Star Tribune

Backyard nest boxes give you a front-row seat on birds raising their young

Feeders, water and birdhouses are three good ways to bring birds to your yard. The latter offers pleasures the former do not. Birds that nest in houses or boxes are obligate cavity nesters: obligated ...
Daily Herald

Safe shelter or death trap? How to give backyard birds a better chance at survival

I wanted to build a first-class home. Small enough to be cozy, but big enough to raise a family. I needed an ideal location, near a wooded area, with a natural supermarket nearby. And the design ...
13abc

Build, sponsor a nest box to help squirrels at Nature’s Nursery this winter

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - Nature’s Nursery has teamed up with Inspired Lumber Workshop in Toledo to offer the public the chance to build and sponsor a nest box to help out squirrels this coming winter.