This is Bird Note. Thomas Pulsam is a hobbyist Lego builder, best known for his models of birds.

And he says making birds out of bricks is not easy. Building anything organic at Lego is actually

a real challenge, you're trying to make round objects out of square bricks. So how do you do that?

Well, one way is to use a special kind of brick, which they actually funnily call a snot brick and

snot means studs not on top. So you have this brick which has a stud on the side and that allows

you to build sideways or upside down or any which way that you want to basically, which allowed

to get the organic shapes. Another fun hallmark of Lego art is nice parts usage. Basically,

where you take a special piece that represents one thing and use it to sculpt something entirely

different. For example, when building a European goldfinch perched at a suet feeder, Thomas used

little mini figure handcuffs for its legs. So one end of the handcuffs was actually attached to

its body and then the other end was attached to the branch. Another bird which I built with a puffing

and I used mini figure carrots for its legs, which I think worked really well for its skinny kind of

orange legs. That's the beauty of Lego just being inventive and creative and having fun.

You can see pictures of Thomas' nice parts usage in his bird models on our website, birdnote.org.

I'm Mark Bramhill.