REVAMP REPAIR recycle
Your Home|June 2022
Craft a colourful sanctuary for wild birds in your garden with a trio of bird boxes made from pallet wood
Tricia Ball and Beth Charlton Lucas
REVAMP REPAIR recycle

Provide visiting wrens, robins and blue tits a permanent home in your garden with a charming birdbox that they can roost and nest in. Treat the wood with a wildlife-friendly wax or paint it pastel-like our three boxes. Place them at least 1.25 metres off the ground to prevent cats jumping up to the nests. When hanging the boxes, tilt them forward to avoid rain driving into the holes the chicks will appreciate the dry setting!

SHOPPING LIST

  • Pallet or reclaimed wood
  • Hammer Crowbar 120-grit sandpaper
  • Measuring tap
  • Pencil
  • Handsaw
  • Electric drill
  • 3cm and 3.5cm-diameter hole-cutter drill bits 4cm nails
  • Elmer's non-toxic wood glue
  • Paints
  • Paintbrushes

1 Using a hammer and crowbar, carefully dismantle the pallet. Remove any nails by hammering their pointed ends. Sand the wood with a sander or sandpaper.

HOW TO make the blue birdbox

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