Birds are more fun than TV—especially when you can enjoy them up close. Projects for the Birder’s Garden brings you dozens of ways to do it!

A bird-lover’s best friend, Projects for the Birder’s Garden is packed with a whole lifetime of recipes, crafts, projects, and gardening ideas. Season after season, year after year, it will help you fill your backyard with beautiful birds… and share a connection with nature you can’t get just by gardening alone. You’ll have the satisfaction of knowing that your projects—and your love—keep your little buddies thriving and new buddies arriving every day.

Best of all, you don’t need special skills or tools! Just follow the clear, easy directions and you can transform shoeboxes, wood scraps, last year’s grapevine wreath, and a few seed packets into window feeders, bloom-covered arbors, and unique front-door decorations that let you share the wonder as baby birds hatch and fuzzy fledglings test their wings.

Treat yourself and your birds to a rich variety of projects—including fast and easy ones perfect if you’re new to bird watching or building. Every project goes together so successfully that you can always be proud to show off your newest creations. Here are just a few:

• SIGHT BIRDS OF EVERY SPECIES with a feeding station you set up in less than an hour with a sock, a margarine tub, and a little red wagon! Page 108

• BUILD AN ORIOLE NEST with a cotton mop head and a pair of scissors. Page 153

• TURN TEACUPS & ROSES INTO A ROMANTIC FEEDING STATION a-flutter with finches and hummingbirds. Page 116

• THE PEAKED ROOF FOR THIS QUAINT BIRDHOUSE IS A CINCH with the no-fail “square trick” on page 224.

• WINTERIZE A BIRDBATH. No pricey heater needed, no kettle to boil. Just grab a light bulb. Page 184

Make your garden a bird-friendly haven!
Projects for the Birder’s Garden makes it easy and fun for you to fill your yard with birds, butterflies, and beautiful surprises! You’ll discover how to lure migrating birds with a gorgeous grape arbor… make your yard a bird-magnet with some wood scraps and a recycled funnel… craft handsome feeders from household castoffs… turn a hanging basket into home sweet home for jaunty wrens… and more!

Click here to roll out the welcome mat for all your feathered friends!