[Elsie]

Thinking that all out must have taken some time or your a genius gg

Neither; well... maybe the latter, perhaps.

The heavy shelving they lie on was already in the barn when we bought the property; as well as the heavy gravel sieves.

The bird door is merely half of a lightweight hollow door from the house remodeling progect.

The nesting box was already lying around somewhere out in the barn, but the solar heating windows were NOT installed yet. They are old shower doors from the bathroom redo a couple of years ago.

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An early model of their heated area:

[Elsie]

The windows face south

[goat granny]

I think that's the first time I saw the duck. My daughter had several, a snapping turtle in their pond took one down and she saw a hawk take one....the other 2 wouldn't go near the pond....nobody can tell me animals are dumb, they knew there was something in there....Being white they were easy to spot so she got a couple of mallards, they were mean as crap, chased the cats and the dogs. She finally found them a new pond about a mile from her house. As far as we know they are still fat and happy...The only animals they left alone were the 2 horses and if they wondered into their area, they got chased out by the horses....LOL horse's didn't like ducks...