Log Cabin Style BirdHouses - A New Log Cabin House for Your Birds

Log cabins have long held an attraction for folks in the US. The log homes of our ancestors have always evoked nostalgic feelings for the time of adventure and exploration that we feel for the pioneer days of the expanding US borders.

A log cabin birdhouse is a small way to capture some of that frontier spirit in your backyard.

You can find these log cabin birdhouses in a range of styles. These wooden birdhouses range can be a simple structure that looks like a simple one room cabin. They scale up from there to much more ornate structures that are more like log mansions than cabins. And the prices range from under $10 to close to $100.

Log cabins were built from logs laid horizontally. These were interlocked on the ends , usually with notches but occasionally with just spikes. And of course the often used sod or some other live roof over their heads. Of course these modern log cabin birdhouses are built to resemble that, but are often just glued together.

Politics and Log Cabins

Log cabins have a traditional appeal to the common man in the US. On the political scene it was originally embraced by William Henry Harrison and the Whigs but there were a total of seven United States Presidents were born in log cabins. Of course the most famous of these presidents was Abraham Lincoln, but there were others like Andrew Jackson.

Some of todays log cabin birdhouses are actually made from bamboo. Bamboo bird houses have become more popular recently as bamboo has come into vogue as a renewable resource and you can find all sorts of bamboo items, ranging from bamboo as landscape, to some high end bamboo cabinets.Of course, like any resource, just because it has the potential to be renewable doesn't mean that it actually is farmed that way, and some countries are much better than others about enforcing best practices.

For bamboo bird houses, however, they are simply sturdy and relatively weatherproof, yet have the appearance of a traditional log cabin house.