$5 Cedar Bird Feeder

Mark the peak on each wall piece with the speed square — 45° from each side to a center point — and cut. Then glue and brad both walls to the ends of the floor, square and flush at the edges.

Rip the shorter roof panel to 5" wide, then glue and nail it to one slope of the gables, its top edge landing at the peak line.

Glue and nail the full-width panel to the other slope so it overlaps the narrow panel's top edge — that overlap IS the ridge, and it sheds rain away from the seed. Nail into both the gables and the narrow panel's edge.

Measure the assembled feeder's platform length, cut the rail stock to fit, rip into two 1-1/2" strips, and glue and nail one along each open side. The rails keep seed on the platform and double as perches.

Add the eye hook at the peak (pilot it — 1/2" cedar splits), hang it in view of a window, and leave the cedar raw: it weathers to silver and the birds could not care less.