Snakeroot Organic Farm presents the . . .Bilbo
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| Our birdhouses are made from naturally hollow logs—generally spruce, cedar or popple—that we find while cutting firewood here on the farm. We began putting them together in the winter of 2005 when we ran across quite a few hollow logs, and marveled at the phenomena. We hated to just add them to the firewood pile.
So, after a little thought we realized we could cut a couple of disks from a good log, screw them to the ends of the hollow log, drill a 1¼” hole in the log, add a screw eye on top to hang it and we had a birdhouse. Most still have the bark on the log, but even those that have peeled still have a very “natural” look that any Hobbit would be pleased to see anywhere in the Shire. We decided on an inch and a quarter hole because the birds we wanted to attract were tree swallows, and they like this size entry. This size hole is also attractive to downy woodpeckers, wrens, nuthatches, chicadees and flycatchers. Hanging the house about 8 feet from the ground suits most all of them. A nail, screw or hook sticking out about 1 inch will be sufficient to hang the houses from. We’ll be bringing a few of these birdhouses to the farmers’ markets in the spring and fall, and of course they will all be available at the farm year round. |
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