Invested in an electric saw today which has enablde me to considerably speed up the process. I currently have my first project clamped in the workshop, having glued the two halves together. Once the necessary 24 hours has elapsed, I shall test the strength of the fixer and decide whether or not I need to add screw fixings.
I have used a hole cutter to produce the entrance. This I have made a little on the larger side, to allow great tits to use this box. Some commercially produced boxes have their holes too small, and I have observed blue tits spending hours of their time and precious energy pecking at the hole to make them larger.
All that will be required to complete the box, is to fit a roof which I shall cover with felt. This hopefully will prevent woodpeckers gaining access by this route, which otherwise would be the most vulnerable part of the box.
I then intend attaching the box to a tree with the use of two nylon ties. These are now cheap and readily available, easy to fix and relatively straight forward to remove. Far better than fixing with screws.
If this design proves to be effective, I shall attempt to have the process filmed and p;laced on Youtube, then perhaps others will not be frustrated in thier attempts to make their own birch log nest boxes.
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