Inflight
Courtney Mueller -- Casual Living, 12/14/2006 5:57:00 AM
From the Winter 2006 Issue of Garden Decor...There’s something calming about watching birds visit our yards, whether to take a bath and bask in the sun or gather a snack from a feeder. Manufacturers offer a variety of bird accessories for the yard to suit different tastes, whether decorating a more modern garden, traditional yard or fun lawn.
Blue Handworks creates a bird bistro with its metal Garden Angel birdfeeder ($35).
Droll Yankees offers protection for smaller birds with the redesign of its Bird Shelter Feeder that prevents squirrels, starlings and grackles from reaching the ports. The feeder also features an open cage bottom, allowing debris to fall through, preventing squirrels from reaching seed.
Colorful, modern stripe designs call attention to the ceramic Rocket birdfeeder from Bird-Brain with a removable top for easy filling ($60).
Birds can fly toward a vacation in the Resort Hotel birdhouse from Princess Jamaica, featuring cypress wood construction and a copper verde roof ($575).
From The Bird Network Collection by The Encore Group, fun and flashy birdfeeders debut, like the wood TV-shaped feeder designed by Becky Lunney. Hand-painted, the feeders are outdoor-safe in sheltered areas ($25).
Featuring a new elliptical siding pattern, Heartwood’s six-sided Florentine birdhouse can be hung by its copper ring, accented with a butterfly, or set on a flat surface ($110).
From Barnstorm, the Tiger Lily Jones birdhouse brings a feline personality to life. Designed by Kathleen Taylor, the house is crafted of resin and metal ($35).
Birds can make a pit stop at Maple Hill Designs’ Pine Cone Inn, a hand-painted fiberglass and polyresin bird house that attracts bluebirds, swallows, finches, woodpeckers and wrens ($49).
| The Italian Renaissance is called upon with the simple and classic ceramic birdbath with pedestal from Intrada ($475). |  |
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Designed by Jim Shore, the new Heartwood Creek Garden Collection from Enesco includes a birdbath featuring felines highlighted by a quilt pattern ($130). |
| A young man welcomes birds in his hat with New Creative’s Wonder Boy birdbath ($120). |  |
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Featuring a twig base, CBK’s birdbath features a bird sculpture on the rim in a brown and copper finish ($140). |
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