DIY bird feeders with recycled materials, an easy way to help these animals find food, let's see 10 ideas together.
DIY Bird Feeders with recycled materials, an easy way to help these animals find food food and little bird shelter during the winter in your garden or on the terrace it represents, in fact, a gesture of respect and love towards them, which could help them to overcome the most difficult season of the year.
You can try to build with your own hands feeders by creatively recycling garbage or unused objects, such as plates, cups, plastic or glass bottles or even an old dollhouse. It will be interesting to try to observe and photograph the feathered species that populate the area in which we live, in winter.
Here are some ideas for making the bird feeder that best suits the space at your disposal.
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A simple cage
Here is a very simple bird feeder that can be placed in the tree branches in your garden or on the balcony, so that passing birds can find the food they need to survive the winter. It is a question of using simple metal cages to place inside seeds, hazelnuts and peanuts. Your little bird restaurant will be ready right away by following the examples in this video.
Bamboo plates
For the construction of a bird feeder in which the seeds and the birdseed dedicated to them are easily accessible, you could be inspired by this project made from two bamboo plates and to be placed between the branches of a tree. The plates used for the realization of the manger are two. The food you want to offer to the birds must be placed on the lower plate, while the upper plate will serve to create a small shelter for them.
Dollhouse
The old dollhouse forgotten in the attic and now unused it can transform in a bird feeder to hang on the branches of a tree or to be placed on a garden table. The floors of the small rooms of the house can be sprinkled with birdseed and seeds suitable for birds. Feathered friends passing through may be hungry, but also thirsty at the same time. That's why it's a great idea to place a tea or coffee cup with water inside the dollhouse.
Glass bottle
A glass bottle recovery can represent the ideal starting point for the construction of a do-it-yourself bird feeder. It is possible to use a glass bottle to be filled with birdseed and to be placed upside down on a small container thanks to which the birds will be able to access the food. It is useful to make a wooden stand for the bottle and attach cables to it to allow it to hang.
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Plastic bottle
In the event that you do not have a glass bottle at your disposal for making a bird feeder, you can resort to the use of a plastic bottle. It must be filled with seeds and feed suitable for consumption by the birds, which they will be able to access thanks to the insertion of a couple of wooden spoons inside the bottle, on which the seeds will be placed, as you can observe. in the image and video below.
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Citrus fruits
This is probably one of the mangers simpler and faster to make, as well as being as natural as possible. For its realization it is sufficient to divide an orange in half and empty part of its contents, simply by making a squeeze and paying attention not to break the peel. The peel itself will become the container for your bird food, to be filled as desired and to be hung on the branch of a tree with a strong string.
You can also add a stick to facilitate the birds by following these instructions.
Pumpkin
Here is another manger composed of completely natural materials, but which has a larger size than the previous one, prepared using the peel of an orange, as in the present case the'use of a pumpkin, to be divided in half and to be emptied of seeds and pulp, until the moment in which you will end up with a bowl formed by its peel to use as a manger. It could be an idea to recycle the decorations used for Halloween.
Tetra pak
By containers in Tetra Pak for drinks it is possible to obtain bird feeders. At first it is necessary to try to open them from the underside and rinse them as much as possible. After having dried them well both inside and outside, you can proceed with coating them and giving them the desired shape, for example by cutting out a small door or a window inside which you will place the feed for the birds. More instructions here and here.
Coffee jar
Even with a simple jar of coffee or soluble barley, a type of container that unfortunately usually cannot be used for separate collection, can be rcreated a simple bird feeder. The chosen jar must be hung horizontally and the upper part must be deprived of half of the lid, so as to be able to insert the birdseed and to facilitate access to it.
Detergent bottle
It gives a plastic bottle for detergent you can get a bird feeder to hang in the garden. The bottle must be rinsed very carefully before use, so that no traces of any type of detergent remain. A cord can be wrapped around the bottle cap to be used to hang the manger. On the front side, at the bottom, an opening will have to be cut out, so that seeds and birdseed can be poured into the bottom of the bottle.
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