My six (soon to be seven and thus the title of this post was generated) year old son wants to build, build and build some more.   We decided that a good from scratch project would be a bird feeder and started to research plans on the internet for bird feeders.  My wife ended up with two bird feeders as Christmas gifts (OK, I bought them for her :)

Here’s a list of mediocre plans

• http://mdc.mo.gov/nathis/woodwork/ww1/
• http://www.aces.edu/pubs/docs/Y/YANR-0008/
• http://www.freebirdfeederplans.com/Assembly_1.htm
• http://www.blackanddecker.com/ProjectCenter/ProjectDetail.aspx?DOC_ID=p_2_99_23589_23593.html
• http://www.northern.edu/natsource/DAKOTA1/Birdfe1.htm
• http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=howTo&p=Build/ScrapsForTheBirds.html

Here’s the short list

• http://www.am-wood.com/nov97/bird.html – Bird feeder table
• http://www.fiddlecreekfarms.com/store/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=2145  - This is what I want and wish I could find plans for…

In our random searches we found a very interesting site that has Nest web cams from Cornell

http://watch.birds.cornell.edu/nest/home/index

If I were going to build my own Purple Martin house, I would use this web site ( http://www.mdc.mo.gov/nathis/woodwork/ww6/ )

Wow, lots of links in this post…I don’t know if I found the one we’ll build but I hope that this post helps out.

-Mike