I never really watched birds until I was pregnant and on maternity leave with my first child. About 2 weeks prior to my son’s birth, my husband built a birdhouse and a feeder and placed it in a flower and vegetable garden just outside our kitchen window. I had never stayed at home during the day and I was rather lonesome. Each morning as I sat at the breakfast table reading my paper and sipping coffee, I would watch the birds. There were so many different species! I could not believe my eyes, as every day seemed to bring a new visitor to our garden. The birds lifted my spirits. Once my son was born, I would sit in front of the window to feed him and play with him while still enjoying our new friends. As he grew, he enjoyed the birds as well, and that window became the center of attention when we sat together for mealtime. It has been 9 years, 2 children, and 3 homes since my first real encounter with my feathered friends, and I am just as thrilled and amazed to watch them now, as I did then. My husband, my children, and myself anticipate the arrival each spring of the new families that will come to live with us. 

Carla                                                                                        Bluebird house plans  

To me, there is not a more beautiful bird than the bluebird that has ever visited my home.  I have several bird houses in my yard and my blue bird house is my favorite.  I have seen many little bluebird babies hatch, grow  and leave.  I all happens so fast, much like my own kids.  They grow so fast.  Of all of my woodworking projects, I like to build the bluebird houses the most.  Maybe it is the smell of the cedar wood or maybe I imagine being a little bird inside, cozy and warm out of  the rain.  I enjoy providing for my kids and in some since, doing the same for a family of little birds.  It would be nice to have a back yard full of these houses except bluebirds are territorial and you usually get only one family per yard.  Other small birds will live in this house as well if you will let them.  Sometimes you will get bluebirds the first time but you never know.  You can look inside as the nest is being built and if it is a clean, neat little nest, you most likely have bluebirds.  If it is messy with trash it is likely not blue birds.