Some original ideas for making bird feeders with your own hands
In the cold season, birds that winter in our area need care and attention. To feed the birds you need to hang the feeders on the trees, which you can make yourself. And if you come up with the original design of these devices, they will not only attract the attention of winged guests, but also decorate the garden.
Available packages from juice or milk are favorite items for home creativity. They are quite durable, but easy to cut, allowing you to form a model with comfortable windows and a waterproof roof.
An industrial product can be effectively designed: colored paper, fabric or applique. Even if such decor on the street does not last long, its creation will be useful for collaboration with children. Kids, proud of the results of their work, will be happy to pour or change food as it is used.
One of the most popular ways to make a feeder is to use any plastic container that is not afraid of either rain or snow.
For the automatic supply of products, original designs from one or several vessels were invented.
The decor of the product depends only on the imagination of the authors. The most attractive for birds is the color and texture of natural materials.
It is also worth remembering that you can paint the craft only outside, so that the birds and the snack do not glue the paint.
Easy to process and durable to use material - empty tin cans. The “dining room” for a small flock can be made of several containers screwed to a wooden base.
Long-term feed can be arranged with an upturned glass bottle or flower pot with openings and a raised roof.
If you make a thread on the surface of the planter, and inside install an element that runs on a solar battery, you get a colorful country flashlight.
Bread, cereal biscuits or seeds hidden behind a metal grate will not reach obsessive pigeons or crows - products will be available only to small birds with thin beaks.
A simple but effective feeder for small pichugs can be made from a net into which vegetables and fruits are laid out in the store.
The eco-friendly design of the rods will appeal to the birds and will be the original decor of the garden.
Making edible feeders is another way to feed bluebirds and sparrows for a long time. There are many options, but the simplest is to pour nuts and seeds into an orange peel or half a pumpkin. Not only grains, but also a vitamin stand will become food.
Homemade cookies made from seeds, sugar syrup and butter will delight and reinforce the birds in severe frosts. A delicious craft can be supplemented with any healthy berries.
And wafer cups of ice cream feathered feast on the "dessert".
For fruit or a piece of bacon, you can make original holders with your own hands.
Edible toys and garlands will effectively decorate the winter garden or street tree for the New Year.
Wood is a universally recognized material for the manufacture of objects in a summer cottage. Professionals create colorful houses for feeding birds, decorate them with carvings and decorative elements. But for this you need to have special skills and a good set of carpentry tools.House craftsmen, using natural raw materials, the remains of boards or sawn trees, will also be able to create outstanding creations that organically fit into the beauty of the natural landscape and last for several seasons.
A wonderful idea is a multi-level construction, which several tens of winged neighbors can use simultaneously.
Properly organized feeding will help more birds survive in the winter, their gratitude in the summer is the destruction of insect pests in forests, parks, squares and household plots.
