Avian Home Designer Pillows

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

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

Caliologist

'It's a pterodactyl-house.'

Doulton Canada Geese

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.'

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

'My husband and I are real bird lovers.'

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

"We've only got one parrot remember."

Woodpecker House

Another over-do-it-yourself project.

"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

Bird box with amenities (plumbing, electricity).

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

"I got a beak job."

Future Homes

'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.'

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

"How Georgia O'Keeffey are you thinking?"

"Or you could see it as the first step in an environmentally friendly, sustainable and affordable self-build project!"

'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.'