These two birdhouses are currently for sale; scroll down for the book.
Both of these birdhouses were made from fallen logs, so no standing bird cavities were harvested. In both cases the logs were no longer suitable for most birds, having cracked open. The birdhouse on the left has a natural front and lumber sides, roof, and floor. The birdhouse on the right is a full log with only the roof and floor made from lumber. The birdhouse on the left is priced at $15 plus shipping. The one on the right is $20 plus shipping.
At 51 pages, Duane Moren and I prepared Birds of the Eastern Arkansas Ozarks in 1990. Our bird records, combined with those of others, Christmas Bird Count data, Breeding Bird Survey information, and other data provide details on the distribution of 237 birds found in the area. Our book compliments Joe Neal and Mike Mlodinow's Birding in the Western Arkansas Ozarks (1988). We cover Boone, Searcy, and northern Van Buren counties east thru all of Baxter, Stone, Izard, and Fulton counties, south and east int most of Sharp County, and those parts of Randolph, Independence, Cleburne counties in the Ozark region including a small portion of Lawrence County.
Available for $10 in paperback, we will also ship it to anywhere in the United States for an additional $5 to cover postage and packaging. For mail orders contact Sedgehead Botanical Services, P. O. Box 766 in Mountain Home, Arkansas 72654.
Here's a sample entry.
Whip-poor-will, Caprimulgus vociferus. March 25 to September 14. Common summer resident throughout the region. Averages per BBS [a Breeding Bird Survey's 25 mile route] for Fulton and Zion countes are 1.8 and 3.8, respectively. The Pattee's recorded early spring dates of April 3 to May 3 in ten years of recording this species . . . . Partain, in Cleburne County, reported arrival dates of April 3 to 24 in eight years of record keeping. The author's observations suggest an early April arriving period in most years. A nest was found in Stone County on May 21.
We plan to revisit the data to compare migration dates for three time periods: 1) prior to 1990, 2) 1990 to 2007, and 3) 2008 to 2022. Ideally we will revise the book to document any changes in bird migration seasons perhaps due to climate change and/or global warming.
The pictures below illustrate recently sold birdhouses. New houses are under construction today. I expect to have the photos of the new houses on line tomorrow, but my website sometimes proves I'm not always diligent.
I make bird houses out of scraps or natural materials. I sometimes create entrance holes by knocking holes through existing knots in lumber. I'm posting these here as examples of future work. Contact me at sedgehead2008 at sedgehead.com if you would like to be notified of future postings or to commission a specific work or birdhouse.
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I have experience doing botanical survey work for Arkansas and wetland delineations. I'll be developing this portion of the website soon. It will have its own page.
If you can't protect plants, you can mow them! For lawn care, call Sedgehead Home Services (number below). Same people, same desire to provide high quality work. If you want cheap, please don't call. We refuse to do shoddy cheap work, like the two homes in the area I found with one nail in a shingle on the roof. We'd use the standard four per shingle.
I'm in the process of moving back to Mountain Home, Arkansas and reopening my home remodeling business. My advertisements in local newspapers may or may not have my phone number, written here in a way to defeat web software searching for phone numbers. The area code is 870, Mountain Home's newest prefix is 736, and the number ends in 1952. If you have a project in mind, give me a call. I don't have a home phone land line. I don't need one. Landlines are for telemarketers. Many people use the internet so you can email me at sedgehead 7 at my domain of sedgehead dot com. Again, I'm trying to defeat spammers, so drop the spaces and put that in typical web format like name@website.com and you'll reach me. Folks who want high quality work will find me one way or the other. I'm not worried about it at all. Besides, I'm not available for work until early spring. I have a couple folks lined up who want to work with me, so it will not be a one man operation. But I'll need to be on site to run the business! For now, you can visit "Forgotten Treasures" in Gassville to find copies of my book Birds of the Eastern Arkansas Ozarks or to buy artwork, birdhouses, bird feeders, and paintings of mine.
Chinese translation aides. I need to find the URL to my favorite page, but this will do for now.
I want to be able to understand what the Chinese people are thinking, and that can best be done in Chinese. Do you know Shanghai means "upon the sea" with Shang meaning on/up/on top/upon/first (of two parts) /upper/higher/above/previous/to climb/to go into/above/ or even to go up and hai meaning ocean or sea? Shanghai had no buildings taller than six stories 20 years ago. Use the internet to look at it now! Did you know China will need another planet of resources to supply just their increased demand for resources in the next 20 years? Did you know China is building a new coal fired power plant every week? Soon we Americans won't be complaining about how we are causing global warming when others contribute more than we do and are competing for the same oil, gas, concrete, etc. In either 2003 or 2004, China's demand for oil increased by only 20%. In a single year! Are we ready for that? Can we even communicate with them? A professor at the University of Georgia told me "Every year, China sends about 300,000 students to the US, mostly to study advanced degrees. Every year, the US sends about 60,000 students to China, mostly to study Chinese. Are we the ones who are advancing faster? I won't answer that question.