Beautifully Designed Tiny Houses... For Birds. The houses all started a couple of years ago, when illustrator and wildlife artist Jada Fitch -- also an avid birder -- decided to make a new bird feeder that could provide a more interesting backdrop for her photos. For the first house, "She carved out a door and windows, and attached a little porch on the front of the structure to act as a perch. She then added the interior décor: painted throw rugs, framed ‘portraits’ of bird family members, and cardboard couches and armchairs, creating a whimsical living room in the process. Lastly and most importantly, she scattered seed across the furniture and floor and Duct taped the house to her window." Her sense of humor is evident in a post of her latest bird feeder: Agent Cooper's Hawk at Twin Beaks' Black Lodge. In the time between that very first house in 2015 and the recent Twin Beaks' Black Lodge, the Maine-based artist has built and taken photos of many more designs and bird visitors -- such as this Halloween-themed bird feeder where a bird in the doorway looks like it has bat wings (scroll down).
Because of popular demand, Fitch teamed up with her husband Philip to create and sell bird feeders, and also improved the structure and longetivity of the houses. The "Home Tweet Home" kits are often sold out, so she announces new batches on her tumblr and twitter.
Among her other work exploring the world of nature, Fitch has illustrated a number of books for children, including a coloring book about owls, a kids' hiking guide to Acadia National Park and Mount Desert Island, Maine (written by Hope Rowan), and a series of board books featuring a different animal (written by Melissa Kim): a snowy owl, brown bat, Blanding's turtle, and monarch butterfly.
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