DIY Boot Birdhouse

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By Andrew Salomone
Posted February 5th, 2013
Category Gardening, General, Hacks

Well, I think the production process is pretty straightforward here, but I like how this image suggests that we spend a lot of our time walking around with a pair of potential birdhouses on our feet.

[via Neatorama]

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2 Responses to DIY Boot Birdhouse

4ndy on February 7th, 2013 at 5:30 am said:

One important issue here: if you nail or screw an old boot into a tree’s trunk you’ll risk killing a tree that could have been growing for decades by giving it a fungal or viral infection when you puncture the phloem. Better to tie it up by the old bootlaces, attach it to something other than a tree, or just let birds make their own nests from small scrap materials. Even chucking out the hair off a brush instead of binning it can give them something to insulate a nest with.

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Jonah Cohen on March 16th, 2013 at 6:29 pm said:

4ndy is correct – tying up the boot, or mounting it on your house, is preferable to screwing it onto a tree. You could also use a pole, but install some kind of predator guard, or your nestbox may become a raccoon’s lunchbox.

Birdhouses are usually only utilized by cavity-nesting birds, but the Carolina Wren (seen in the photo here) sometimes goes for odd spaces, so the boot m.o. might work.

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