Selecting Wood for Bird Feeder

Series Summary

Birds need to eat, just like we need to eat. Of course birds don't need kitchens and restaurants like ours, but they do have certain preferences for their dining establishments. A nice trough will do fine, preferably surrounding by solid blocks of wood and a nice little shelter from the sun. Put a few tasty seeds in there and you've got a veritable feast for our fine feathered friends.

In this free how to video series, learn how to make a bird feeder from our birdhouse construction expert Bob Olsen. Bob will demonstrate important tips for making bird feeders including how to cut wood to make a birdhouse, how to cut walls for a birdhouse, how to attach the walls and roof to your bird feeder. Watch these free videos and learn from the award-winning architect of some of the most stylish bird feeders and birdhouses around.

Video Transcript

"We are going to start off building this bird feeder. I happen to have some wood here. It was all old and grooved and I cut off the ends. The old grooves so it is about 5 inches wide. You can use any kind of wood that you want. This just happens to be Aspen that we grooved and used on a cabin up on Cider Mountain for my boy, so he let me have this wood. So we would start off making the back part of it first because we are going to hang it similar to this on. But we would cut it off on the saw. When we cut this off about 12 inches and just cut it off. This would be the back right here we would put a hole through it. We would make the side pieces we would make them like I guess this was 11 1/2 we would make the side pieces 7 inches. So we would take the best part of the wood and make 2 side pieces which we are going to make about 7 inches. Sizes you really don't have to worry too much about the size whatever it comes out, but when you are putting it together you want it fairly squared. We would make this one 7 inches and we would cut it off. We would make another one the same size. We have 2 side pieces they would go on like this. The next thing we have to do is make the front piece."