And I just discovered a FORUM for people trying to attract wildlife to their backyards! Here it is:

http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/wildlife/

DADDY LOVED THE BLUEBIRDS

     We had a bluebird house in our back yard all the years I was growing up. Our little white farmhouse was new then and the trees around it only saplings, but Daddy made a point of putting that bluebird house on a pole next to the garage. And one day each year he ran into our house, shouting, "Spring is here! The bluebirds have come!" It wasn't spring until the bluebirds came. And we’d all go out and stand on the back steps to watch the bluebirds going in and out of their little red house.

     Daddy was greatly grieved when starlings took over the bluebird house, and the bluebirds were forced to retreat up into the Montana mountains.

     One summer afternoon a decade ago, my brother took Daddy up into the mountains one last time. I don’t know if Daddy knew it was the last time for him, but my brother knew. Daddy phoned me in tremendous excitement when he got back. And the last words I ever heard him say were "I saw a bluebird! I saw a bluebird!"

     Bluebirds are a threatened species, but if you live in a rural or semirural area, you may be able to help them. The North American Bluebird Society would like to show you how to set up bluebird nesting boxes this spring. They can also tell you how to keep starlings and house sparrows from taking over from the bluebirds.

http://www.nabluebirdsociety.org/

DO-IT-YOURSELF PROJECTS FOR BIRDERS

     This sites teaches you to build all sorts of feeders or a woodpecker box, grow your own birdhouse gourds, and much more. These are great projects to do with a child.

http://www.birdwatchersdigest.com/site/
how_to/how_to_index.aspx