Best of the Nests!

Pamper your resident chickadees, and improve the view from your window or deck, with an artful birdhouse or feeder by a local maker. Here are a few we think are pretty fly.

Maine-made bird feeders and birdhouses
From the Spring 2023 issue of Maine Homes by Down East

1. The colors in the gardens and woods surrounding her Belmont studio inspire Mary Trotochaud’s glazed stoneware bird feeders. $100. 

2. A modern marvel, Boothbay Harbor artist Jim Schatz’s stoneware egg bird feeder has a slippery, squirrel-proof finish. $275. 

3. Aaron Letourneau fashions gourds grown on his New Gloucester property into shapely birdhouses brilliantly colored with leather dyes. $25. 

4. Westbrook artist Kim Desjardins’s moss-fringed hypertufa birdhouse might just as easily attract fairies. $30. 

5. Dayton woodworker Dana Googins’s tawny acorn birdhouse comprises 14 strips of Maine pine. $49.99. 

April 2025 cover of Down East magazine: A bouquet of poppies and beets.

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