Basic bird box with removal apex lid

[Roboboyo]

Hi guys, I am going to make a bird house for my dads allotment but he has requested one with an apex roof and one where you can lift the lid off.

I have some rough ideas in my head but was wondering if anyone had any ideas on how to make the roof lid removable?

Any help appreciated

Cheers

 

[Phil Pascoe]

I can't help you with that one, but have a look at the RSPB site for hole sizes and general ideas.

 

[kinverkid]

I don't have any photographs with this lid off but the whole aluminium covered wood roof comes off just by lifting it.
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This next one, the house lifts off the base which maybe a little easier to clean it out although the person it was made for actually put it on the kitchen dresser so I had to make another planer one.

I don't think this one was happy with that

 

[Roboboyo]

Thanks guys!!! Lol. Angry birds . Com

 

[Phil Pascoe]

You shouldn't put perches on them, it makes things easier for predators.

 

[kinverkid]

You shouldn't put perches on them, it makes things easier for predators.

Good point. I was made aware of that (possibly here, maybe by yourself) last year or so. No more perches on my houses.

 

[Jameshow]

Just make a box with pointy eves add another set of pointy eves inside the outer ones about an inch into the box screw roof ply to these.

If you need to put a screw through both.

 

[JAW911]

Presumably he wants to be able clean it out every year (as you should). A removable base achieves the same and makes cleaning the base (dirtiest part) easier. Just saying….

 

[thetyreman]

this is one I made for bluetits, should be very easy, all using boards of pine, I got the plans from the RSPB website, it's screwed together so there's no joinery. To remove the lid there's 4 screws, so it's easy to remove.

 

[Homeless Squirrel]

RSPB have plans and there are ones for Bat's and Bee hotels!
Ive plans drawn on a piece of paper can post up if don't find later as time for bed!

 

[clogs]

there's no equiv of the RSPB here.......need to know what OWL boxes plans are nec for the local birds, it's for the new barn/workshop....
guess they just shoot em .....!!!! like everything else........
never seen a barn owl here.......
we do have one strange Owl tho....
please listen, only a few seconds, it can keep this up all night....we thought it was an alarm at first....hahaha......


got a few bat boxes up plus an unfinished insect hotel.....just never enough time.....lol...need another spare day, what ever that is....
the sparrows took 2 years to use the bird boxes......even put up shallow trays under the eve's of the front porch.....

 

[TheUnicorn]

here is a simple design for an apexed box, with a removable base as suggested above, I'd exclude the perch though

https://www.instructables.com/Making-a-Birdhouse/

 

[MikeJhn]

I had to metal clad our bird box's due to the tenacity of the local woodpeckers, who take the chicks, once I had put metal around the entrance they started on the sides, then the bottom and eventually the roof, so next Spring these are going up: Woodcrete & WoodStone Bird Boxes | Practical Conservation Equipment | NHBS

 

[Johnwa]

Clogs sounds like a scops owl to me. Only heard one in the flesh as it were and that was in Greece too, but Ionian Greece, Corfu. There was also something that msde a "Tonk" noise too, same place in Corfu, I put that down to an owl too as it was only heard at night!