A recording from a Build Swift Nest Box we did with Katie O'Neill RSPB, Edinburgh Swift City Project Officer.

Prepping Your Nest Box Materials

If you’d like to make your nestbox during the workshop, please have your wood prepped and your making materials ready. We’ll be doing some basic cuts together, but your wood should be cut down to size as much as possible.

You can find a video with prep tips and other info here: [ Ссылка ]

Note: the dimensions shown are for 15mm thick wood. If your wood is different to that, the dimensions of the side pieces should be 150mm by 150mm minus 2 x thickness of wood you are using, eg if you're using 18mm wood it would be 150mm x 114mm.

The little nest cups ( 'square things' in video ) - can be about a 7cm diameter circular hole cut out of a 10cm square, 1cm thick piece of ply would be fine. Fix the nest form to the base of the nest box in the end of box away from the entrance hole.

Material List For Building Your Nest Box

A sheet of exterior FSC (from a sustainable source) plywood, 1.8m long x 15cm wide x 1.2-1.8cm thick and not pressure treated OR other bird-safe wood such as pine, that covers the pieces needed in the image below. Pallets are a great material for re-use and can be found all over town for free!
1 x Saw
20 x Nails and/or
20 x Screw
1 x Drill & Bits
Measuring Tape
Square or straightedge
Pencil
Clamps (not essential, but helpful!)
Material List Installing Your Nest Box

4 x Screws
1x Tall ladder
1 x Drill & Bits
4 x Rawlplugs

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