Avian Home Designer Gifts

Provide them with plenty of nesting places.

"Thanks! Carl put his heart and soul into it, along with, of course, lots of mud and a boatload of his own saliva."

Birds reading over woman's shoulder

Tidy it up for the open house, and it wouldn't hurt to put out some freshly regurgitated worms. For sale.

"I don't know the Latin, but the common name is climbing onion."

Caliologist

Doulton Canada Geese

'It's a pterodactyl-house.'

Man trying to take pictures of wild birds at feeder.

"To be honest, we were thinking of something like a Cape Cod."

'... and I'd like a Holodeck right off the living room.'

'We decided to rent out the back room until the baby comes.'

Hoody Woodpecker.

'It's always the same design. I wish he'd get a more imaginative set of house plans.'

"Is this the first time you've put wallpaper up?"

'My husband and I are real bird lovers.'

Another over-do-it-yourself project.

Woodpecker House

"We've only got one parrot remember."

"The house needs to have comfortable window ledges. Lots of windows! And a fireplace!"

'Of course, you have to imagine it finished.'

"I'm sorry, madam, but these units are for display purposes only."

Bird building a nest under a bird box rather than in it

Pencil Peaock

"After the kids moved out I had the house redesigned to reflect the real me."

Bird box with amenities (plumbing, electricity).

"I got a beak job."

Future Homes

'A decade ago, who could have envisioned beds on the wall?'

'Forget what it looks like now. Think of what it will look like after you've put 10 years of loving care and back-breaking labor into it.'

'Honey, you're spoiling those birds!'

Birdhouse Shapes

'Still no takers, did it ever occur to you that they may not like the neighbourhood?'

'Looks like they have their own problems with suburban encroachment.'

Man and boy looking at a birdhouse they have just built. It has a vacancy sign outside it like a motel.