Comments on: Bird Hovels

By: Flickr: junkyprojects

Flickr: junkyprojects — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 10:56:17 +0000

hahahaha, the roofing plastic is a nice thoughtful touch

By: Flickr: junkyprojects

Flickr: junkyprojects — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 10:53:49 +0000

this is great, i love this shit, i wanna make little garbage homeless junkys to live in them

By: Flickr: GammaBlog

Flickr: GammaBlog — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 18:34:19 +0000

My guess is that’s a grade school project, like your commenter said. It has a perch and is not attached with a plastic strap, like the other one’s I’ve photographed that turned out to be the project of a pair of Swiss artists, making a statement about homelessness.

By: Flickr: Atomische • Tom Giebel

Flickr: Atomische • Tom Giebel — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 15:44:57 +0000

Here’s one in Prospect Heights:

By: Tricia

Tricia — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:40:03 +0000

Looks like a sad school project to me. Maybe the kids were instructed to build birdhouses out of recycled material.

In any case, House Sparrows and Starlings would be the most likely to use them and they are wildly detrimental to the rest of the native birds in NY.

By: Flickr: Trois Têtes (TT)

Flickr: Trois Têtes (TT) — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 16:13:54 +0000

I think the bird in there is married to his cousin

By: Flickr: Goggla

Flickr: Goggla — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 14:45:27 +0000

The Tropicana house looks much more organized, like the person was doing their own recycling. The house on the fence looks much more crazy and the box looks like it was taken from the trash.

By: Flickr: GammaBlog

Flickr: GammaBlog — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:31:13 +0000

That Tropicana one actually looks like it could be a functional bird house. The container shouldn’t leak, it’s level and it has a perch allowing the birds access to the entrance. It looks like a project a kid might have made, copying the design from a magazine or something. Yeah I noticed the plastic ties also on the hovels. I don’t think they were done by the same person.

By: Flickr: lucky_dog

Flickr: lucky_dog — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 01:59:15 +0000

looks can be deceiving; most of these dishelveled looking bird houses appear to be carefully designed and executed. also, while it might not be a big thing, this person is using tie-wraps to secure these things to fences and things.

By: Flickr: celso_nyc

Flickr: celso_nyc — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 01:43:20 +0000

so good. can’t want to see one in person…