I'm on 1.0.275 and the app crashes upon startup. I also got a system warning about the app using a lot of background battery power.

House Sparrow have always been a problem with our bluebird boxes so we were very happy to see a clutch of eggs in one of them! 🤞

In the Chickadee box they've added layers of grass and animal hair.

Someone is starting a moss nest in one of our bluebird boxes. Any ideas what it could be? My googling is failing me.

Phone photo of an group of bluebird young. Bluebirds have kept control of one of our nest boxes for about a month now and it's great to see a fruitful result!

I try to leave them alone so this is the first time I've peeked in there.

Our bathroom has very little extra floor space so the scale has been leaning up against the wall.

Taking adavtage of extra wall space behind the door to safely store the scale.

I constructed it like a very short drawer. Cherry sides with 3/16" plywood bottom.

A small table for our toddler to draw on and ruin 😊 Solid maple build with mortise & tenon aprons. The top was bookmatched from a piece of 8/4.

Finish was three coats of amber shellac for color and seal followed by three of wipe-on poly for durability.

Knocked out this medium sized salad bowl the other day. The blank had been sitting around for at least five years!

I made this a few years ago to speed-turn the L-bolts in our Christmas tree stand. They are stiff and super putzy to operate by hand.

I finally got a #7 and needed a place to keep it. My #5-1/2 fit into a drawer so I never needed large plane till until now.

Often these kind of tool cabinets are elaborate masterpieces made from treasured hardwood felled by one's grandfather; not this one, it's made from scrap plywood and gets the job done. I have two little ones that don't leave me much shop time right now.

The box is about 25" wide, 15" wide, and 10" deep. Piano hinge for the door with a rare earth magnet catch.

Drawer box dado corners with everything else being screwed on for future adjustability.

The till is simply leaned up against the back wall and screwed in place.

I'm very much hoping they bring back the Hot Braised Pork!

Made this child's train set for my two year old. It's all scrap cherry. The wheels are 1.25" in diameter while the bases are 1.5" wide.

The wheels are nailed into pre-drilled holes.

The hitches are sort of a half lap joint with the top half holding a dowel.

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Ozaukee County has very few places where one can easily access the lake, it's great having another available.

I use little squeeze bottles for mineral spirits, denatured alcohol, etc. Refilling them has always been a messy and tricky operation while trying to hold the bottle, funnel, and canister all at the same time.

This little bottle holder has made that task much eaisier!! Having it clamp into the vise eliminates any possibility of the bottle tipping over.

I know this isn't strictly about birding but who doesn't like Eastern Bluebirds?

So this spring I put up two bluebird nest boxes (X-Box design on EMT posts) only to have the bluebirds repeatedly evicted by house sparrows.

A few times I ready about using fishing line to deter the house sparrows, and it has actually worked! I attached two horizontal beams to the tops of the houses and then hung monofilament weighted with large hex nuts.

That was about six weeks ago and now we have a bluebird family in one and house wrens in the other.

Edit - on my lappy so I'll post some links

• X-Box House
• Steve Gilbertson EMT/Rebar Post
• House Sparrows & Fishing Line