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How to make a bird feeder

Bird feeders are a great topic for both bird lovers and inventors of small architectural forms. How to do simple or fancy feeder from cardboard boxes plastic bottles, from cans, from a wooden bar or a bucket of mayonnaise, as well as from packaging for a cake and from everything else, what to feed titmouse and what sparrows eat look and read - ideas fly in the air and land on this page.

The cutest and most beautiful "cafe" for birds

What a beauty!

Master Class
1. With a hot knife, cut the bottle in two places along the basting. See for yourself what width of the strip to cut, there are no exact dimensions.

Cut according to the mark

2.See the picture below. Cut out a wider strip, get a more squat figure, cut out less - the product will be higher.

The height of the feeder depends on the height of the cut piece

3. At the bottom of the bottle, cut a hole for the birds to land on, as shown in the photo. Do not forget to walk along the edge of the window with a hot knife so as to melt the cut and make it not sharp. The bird will sit on the edge of the window with its paws and should not be cut.

To prevent the birds from cutting their paws

Paint the bottom of the bottle with acrylic paint.
4. When the paint is dry, make two holes with a hole punch (or a hot nail) in the bottom of the bottle, on either side of the entrance to the feeder at the same distance.

Hole punch makes holes neater than a nail

5. Symmetrical holes must also be made in the upper part of the bottle, twine will be threaded into these holes, with which the upper and lower parts of the bottle will be connected and this beauty will be hung.

Connect the bottom and top of the structure with twine

6. Color the top of the bottle and don't forget the cork. Let dry.
7. The twine will be threaded according to the scheme:

The twine connects the top and bottom of the feeder, and the knots are pulled up through the hole in the cork

8 Make a hole in the cork, take the knots and pull the two ends of the twine by the knots through the hole in the cork.

Pass the twine through the hole in the cork

9Decorative detail. Make additional holes, as shown in the photo, on the bottom and top of the bottle and fasten the parts with decorative rivets. This will additionally fasten the details and give the look of a “brand item”.

Rivet holes

Align the rivet holes on the bottom of the product with the same holes on the top.

Rivets especially decorate Raffia palm string bow

And from such bottles, funny feeders would also turn out.

minion feeder

From cardboard boxes.

Any cardboard box with a hole cut out, hung up and filled with food, is a feeder. For example, a box from Rafaelo or boxes from New Year's children's gifts, which are accumulated in every house in abundance after the New Year.
We use milk bags, paint and decorate with buttons and twigs. Glue with silicone glue with a glue gun. (I bought myself a glue gun at a hardware store, it was 3 times cheaper there than in a needlework store).

Feeder from a milk bag with buttons
Cardboard box feeder
Raffaelo box
Christmas gift boxes

By the way, if there is no balcony, but only a window, then the cardboard device will come in handy, it will not break the window when you lower it out the window onto the windowsill. My only fear is that in this house the neighbors are not happy to feed the pigeons so close to the cars. It would be necessary to make the hole in the box small, then the pigeons would not be able to feed on the windowsill, but the tits would scurry back and forth and delight the child and the kitten with their bustle. And so after all it's boring to look at the dove's ass sticking out of the box.

The girl hangs the feeder outside the window (So much effort, but only the pigeon's ass is visible).

Bird "bistros" from cans

Tin can feeders
To prevent the birds from cutting themselves, smooth the landing edge of the feeder.

Baby formula cans are very bird-friendly.

Lauren Martin, a French horticulturist, has set up a whole feeder garden in her home.

From plastic bottles, it's easy.

The simplest homemade bird canteen that allows you to pour a full bottle of seeds, as a small hole prevents the seeds from getting enough sleep.

The simplest bird feeder

We do this according to the scheme:

How to make the most a simple feeder from a plastic bottle
Make it easy

From other improvised materials.

From the packaging for the cake.

Cake for tits

wooden bar idea

bird bar idea

From plastic buckets for mayonnaise.

Bucket for birds1 Bucket for birds2

wooden blocks

It is quite difficult to make, but the look is very eco-friendly

From whole coconut.

When the holiday is over and the flesh of the coconut is eaten, the capacity of the coconut feeder will be filled with simple food in the form of seeds and the exotic restaurant will turn into a budget eatery.

Two options for one technology:

How and where to place top dressing.

This is actually an important question. After all, we live among people and our interests or the interests of our feathered friends should not conflict with the interests of the people around us.
If the droppings of birds that we bring to our window or balcony regularly fall on the lower balconies or on the cars of our neighbors, expect trouble. And do we need it?
Solving this problem is simple. You need to know a few things.
1 Feed pigeons only on the ground, away from parking lots, balconies and window sills, so that pigeon droppings do not harm us and our neighbors.
2 Sparrows, unlike tits, do not fly away immediately as soon as they take food, they sit in the same place where there is food and poop in the same place and throw the husks from the seeds in the same place. Such a fellow sits on the edge of a bottle or a perch, takes the seeds, pecks and throws the husk back into the seeds or next to them. Spit, brat, all around. Tits are afraid of him and wait, sitting on the branches nearby, when he is full. Therefore, a container with seeds should be hung away from the wall of the house,

1. Here's at least how my neighbors did, look at the video.

This is a Yurok, they are wintering with us. These birds are like sparrows, they sit until they are full and try not to let the tits in, and the titmouse fly up, take a seed and peck out a seed from a branch.
2.Or place inside the balcony so you can clean up after your guests.

Cup on the balcony
Titmouse love fat
Serious feeder
Titmouse on the slope of the window
We fix the feeder with a dowel
Feeder with lid - very convenient for filling with seeds "Bread pipeline"

A child living in this house called this structure a "bread pipeline"

What do tits eat

For feeding tits, unroasted sunflower seeds, unsalted lard, fat, nuts (chopped, with soft pulp, such as walnuts) and an exotic option - a sawn coconut suspended on a string, are suitable.

What not to give birds
You can not give salty fat, roasted sunflower seeds, smoked products, rye bread.
Titmouses will not eat either buckwheat, or millet, or rice.
But sparrows will eat millet and crushed grains and raisins.

By the way, wild grapes () on your balcony will also attract birds. An alpine jackdaw flies to us, see the video at the end of the article.
Fat treat

Treats for the birds

Salo can simply be hung on a thread or cut into pieces and put in a vegetable net, I'm on my feeder, which is both observation deck for my cats in the summer, I made such a design.

Bird feeders in winter help to save birds from hunger. However, this is not the only reason why you should start making them.

By themselves, beautiful and original feeders can become a unique decoration for your garden.

And the process of their creation instills in the younger generation a sense of responsibility and concern for weak creatures.

In addition, this is an invaluable time that allows parents to spend time with their children with interest and benefit.

Wooden bird feeders

There are several types of feeders that can be made from wood. Firstly, these are feeders that look like a base made of plywood or other similar material with sides around the edges that prevent treats for birds from crumbling.

Most often, such a design is suspended from a tree branch on thick ropes.

But such a feeder has a number of disadvantages. The most obvious is that such a design does not protect the feed poured into it from precipitation and bad weather. It is also quite light and can move or roll over with the wind.

The second version of wood feeders is more like a house and has a roof. In such feeders, the food is reliably protected from the weather. The base of the structure looks the same as in the first version, only there are supports on it that support the roof.

The roof can be either straight or pitched. Any child can make a straight roof, because in fact it is a rectangular piece of plywood, only slightly larger than the base.

The pitched roof has a slightly more complex design, but it better themes that, unlike a straight roof, snow does not accumulate on it and it does not have to be cleaned periodically.

There are also original options for feeders made of wood. For example, a feeder can be made from an ordinary log. To do this, you will need a chainsaw, a chisel and a hammer, as well as a chain and rings for hanging.

To begin with, you need to saw off two round logs from the log on both sides of the future feeder. Then a wedge is cut along the entire log, and longitudinal and transverse cuts are made, not reaching the bark of about 5 centimeters.

This is necessary in order to subsequently make it easier to extract the middle from the workpiece with a chisel. After all the work is done, the previously cut rounds are nailed on both sides of the feeder.

It remains only to screw the rings and attach the chain on which you can hang the feeder.

Plastic bottle feeders

For bird feeding, plastic bottles are also used as feeders. It can be both containers of 5-6 liters, and small 1.5-2 liter bottles.

Most often, a plastic bottle is turned into a feeder by cutting out several windows in the body.

Then such feeders are hung horizontally or vertically, depending on the design. For the convenience of birds, cross perches are installed near the bottom of the feeder.

But sometimes you can find quite original feeders, which provide for the automatic addition of feed. These are the so-called bunker feeders.

Such a feeder can be two wooden spoons inserted at an angle into the through holes in the bottle. Thus, the food from the bottle will gradually spill onto the spoon.

The bunker feeder can be made from 2 liter bottle. To do this, it is enough to cut the bottle in half, make round holes in the lower part, and turn the top upside down and put the neck down. The top can be covered with a lid or a disposable plate. In such a feeder for a long time it will not be necessary to add food.

Improvised materials in the creation of bird feeders

The simplest feeder you can think of is a garland of rowan, cone or berries. A treat for birds strung on a rope will decorate young trees in the garden. The only disadvantage of such a feeder is that as the feed is eaten, the garland loses its appearance.

An interesting solution would be to make a feeder in the form of lumps with grain or seeds. Such decorations can be placed on benches, tables, or simply hung on trees in nets, in which tangerines are usually sold in a store.

They are based on fat or gelatin. The lard is melted and the main food is added to it. Then the finished substance is poured into molds (these can be baking molds or regular balloon) and placed in a cold place to solidify.

They also do it with dissolved gelatin mixed with grain.

If you have a coconut shell lying around, then it can also be used to make a feeder.

As a result, such a design will be invisible on the tree. Juice or milk boxes are also suitable for making feeders. Their very design will not differ much from simple feeders made from plastic bottles.

Photo of bird feeder ideas

Bird feeders can be seen in courtyards and parks. If you want to design something special, extraordinary, then we will tell you how to make a bird feeder yourself.

An easy way to feed birds

The feeder can be made from improvised means, for example, take a piece of board, plywood or any flat and durable material at hand and place it higher from the ground. This will keep food available to the birds.

This is a temporary measure, as precipitation may fall or the food will simply be blown away by the wind. But such a feeder can save birds from starvation.

We use plastic bottles

From a plastic bottle, you can build both a very simple and a multifunctional dining room for birds. Consider in more detail some of the ideas of feeders, and their implementation.

Hastily

If you cut a hole on the side of the bottle, then we can say that we have done half the job. Near the neck, you need to make 2 holes with an awl, insert the wire and fix the feeder on a branch of a tree or shrub. If you pour food on the bottom, after a while you can see how birds flock there.

So that moisture does not spoil the food when precipitation gets inside the bottle, drainage holes must be made in the lower part of the container.

We complicate the design

From a plastic bottle, you can make a feeder with a "dispense window". Having picked up a container that is suitable in size, cut a small hole on one side, and pierce the bottle with scissors on the opposite side. Insert a wooden spoon with the handle forward so that it fits snugly into the pierced hole. The spoon should be positioned so that the grains roll into it as the birds peck at the food. The number of spoons involved can be different, but most often there are two.

To hang the bottle, you can pierce the cork with an awl (or nail), thread a nylon thread into it, and tie a knot inside the cork.

How to decorate a gray, unsightly bottle? If desired, you can make the feeder a decoration of any garden.

Feeder on glass

You can make a simple design from a plastic bottle, which will be attached directly to the glass using suction cups. The device of such a feeder is very simple, and for its manufacture you will need only 1 container and 2 suction cups.

A small square or rectangular hole is made with a construction knife. With a soldering iron or a hot gas nail on one side of the bottle, you need to make 2 holes, into which the sucker heads will fit tightly. In our case, the suction cups were with hooks, so we first removed them, and then fixed them with them, inserting them into their places, but already inside the bottle.

The positive aspects include the fact that the birds can be observed, almost close to them approaching. A significant disadvantage is that the birds defecate near the feeder, so the glass and tide will have an unsightly appearance.

Video: making a plastic bottle feeder

Use of glass

Glassware can be used to distribute food to birds. The container must be securely fastened down with the neck at a short distance from any platform. Pour food into this container and set it in place (holding the hole with your finger so that the grains do not spill out). As feed is used up, what is in the bottle will flow to the site.

Video: glass feeder

Other improvised materials

It will not be difficult to come up with a lot of ways in which you can feed the birds.

Tits love not only grains. You can feed such gourmets by hanging a piece of unsalted bacon wrapped in rope or wire on a branch.

If you buy products packaged in nets in supermarkets, then this container can also be used by pouring nuts into it.

From small loose feed, you can mold a ball (adding flour and water) and also hang it in a net. In frosty weather, the food can be mixed with vegetable oil. Milk or sour cream is not suitable for these purposes, since the bird's body does not accept such food.

In order to protect the food from precipitation, you can build a plywood roof.

Pumpkin

A pumpkin feeder can be called waste-free production, as the birds first eat the food, and then the edible "dining room" itself. It is enough to cut holes in the pumpkin and pull out the core.

You can cut the pumpkin in half, thread a rope with a knot tied at the bottom through both halves. To fix it in a disconnected state, you need to install spacers from twigs between the halves. In extreme cases, you can use pencils as coasters. The upper edge of the rope threaded through the pumpkin is tied to a branch, and the feeder is ready to receive feathered guests.

Video: pumpkin feeder

Couch spring

Such things and objects can be used that usually have nowhere else to apply.

If you still have a spring from an old sofa, then you can also use it by holding pieces of bread between the turns. This feeder can be hung both vertically and horizontally.

car air filter

A wire mesh feeder can be seen on the counter of a store, but a similar design can be built from a used paper car air filter.

For manufacturing, you need to cut off the upper part of the filter, and remove the paper filling (it can be done together with the inner or outer mesh, if you do not plan to put food between them). Outside the filter, a wire is tied to the top of the net, which will serve as a loop for hanging the feeder on a tree. Suitable food is poured inside, and the cut off top of the filter can be used as a cover.

To reduce feed loss, a plastic bucket lid can be glued to the bottom of the feeder with hot glue. From the same cover you can make a canopy.

teapot for brewing

If you have an old kettle and it’s a pity to throw it away, but it’s no longer possible to use it for its intended purpose, then you can make a feeder out of it. How to hang it? Drilling a hole in a faience product is a very thankless task, so you can use hot melt adhesive. If there is a hole in the lid, then you need to insert the ends of the rope into it and make a knot inside. For safety, it is better to tie a small washer. Now the lid can be glued to the teapot, the neck of which will now serve as an entrance for the birds.

Looking into the barn or pantry, you can find things that are "hard to carry, but it's a pity to leave." An old metal bread box belongs to the category of those. Great imagination is not required for its placement - he tied a rope and hung it on a branch.

Similarly, you can use an unnecessary plastic container.

Use of various boxes

It will also be easy to make a feeder from a juice or wine box.

One or two windows are cut out in the box so that there is a small bowl for food at the bottom.

When cutting out the window, care can be taken to protect the food from precipitation. For this, a small visor is left, but so that it does not fall and close the entrance, it can be fixed with a nylon thread in the open position.

To make a large cardboard feeder, you need a large box. With a construction knife or scissors, a window of the desired size is cut out in it. If the box is very large, then you can cut out a smaller product from it and wrap it with tape. It is important to realize that such a feeder will last only until the first rain.

Tin box

Often, manufacturers sell products in tin boxes, which can also be used to make a feeder.

In addition to the bank itself, we need:

• metal or plastic chain - 2 m (4 pieces of 0.5 m each);
• detachable ring (used for keys);
• small cotter pin - 8 pcs. (you can do with knitting wire);
• awl;
• alcohol marker;
• wire cutters or scissors for metal;
• ruler;
• pliers.

Now let's start manufacturing.

• As accurately as possible, you need to mark 4 points on the jar and transfer the same marks to the lid.
• According to the marks with an awl, you need to make holes so that a cotter pin passes through them.

• With wire cutters, cut the chain into four pieces of 50 cm.
• Having passed the cotter pin through the last link of the chain, we insert it into the hole and from the inside of the can with pliers we push its ends apart.

• Having measured 15 cm of the chain (starting from the can), we will pass the remaining 4 cotter pins into it and fix the lid with them.
• Now we will pass a detachable ring into the ears of the free ends of the chain.

After hanging the feeder on a branch, look in which direction the box slopes, and pierce it with an awl in the bottom (from the inside) - this will be a drainage hole.

branches

From large branches you can collect original feeder. To complete the work, you will need an ax, a hammer, nails and a little imagination.

Plywood

Plywood products are strong enough, but are afraid of moisture.

A simple version of the feeder consists of just a pallet with sides, two pieces of plywood serving as a roof, and a rope connecting all the parts. To fix the bottom and roof in the desired position, knots are tied on the rope.

If there is a desire and a jigsaw, then you can design a more complex feeder using one of the presented drawings.

Log

When harvesting firewood, logs with a rotten core are found. This piece of the trunk will serve as a base for us. You need to extract the core. Windows are drilled in the hollow trunk or its longitudinal part is cut out. The ends are closed with selected "plaques" sawn off from other trunks. A tree trunk feeder can be found in both horizontal and vertical versions.

For manufacturing you will need:

• self-tapping screws;
• small nails;
• slats.

For the manufacture of the roof and bottom, you can use plastic or HDF (which you can find, since this material is sold only in large sheets).

In the manufacture of any design, it is convenient and practical to use drawings that indicate the dimensions of the parts. We will also use the drawing in order to cut all the blanks to size.

They can be lightly sanded with sandpaper.

First, we will assemble the narrower part of the future feeder, hammering 3 nails on each side.

Then the whole frame is assembled in a similar way. If the nails are short, then you can use 5 pcs.

We will install the frame on the prepared bottom and outline it with a pencil from the outside - so we get the markup along which this part will need to be cut out and then nailed.

In order to fix the upper rails, we use 4 self-tapping screws - 1 pc each. for each attachment point.

From the remaining rails we will make the upper part of the feeder, fastening the parts with self-tapping screws. The final step will be marking, sawing and fixing the roof. The joint of two sheets of roof sheathing can be hidden by nailing a corner rail on top.

There are some points to consider when making and determining the installation location of the feeder:

1. Do not underestimate cats, because they can get to the feeder, and then the birds will fly away or become the prey of a domestic predator.
2. The feeder needs to be made with a large roof, then a lot of precipitation will not get into it.
3. The entrance to the feeder should not be small, as fear may be stronger than hunger, and the birds may not take advantage of your hospitality.
4. The design is best made from moisture-resistant material, then it will last a long time. Other materials must be treated with water-repellent compounds.
5. If the feeder is too light or has a large windage, then it can be turned upside down by a gust of wind. Even a short turn will cause all the feed to be on the ground. Lightweight construction needs to be weighted down.

Photos of original feeders

Video: original ideas brought to life

Drawings and sketches

With the onset of cold weather, it becomes more and more difficult for birds to get food. And our task is to help the birds survive the winter, especially since this is not at all difficult to do. If earlier, in order to make a bird feeder with your own hands, it was necessary to have carpentry skills, appropriate materials and tools, today a feeder can be made from plastic bottles or juice boxes within ten minutes.

The design of this feeder was found on the Internet and made at the beginning of last winter (December 2012). It was highly appreciated by tits and sparrows and after a successful winter operation in the spring it was decommissioned as unnecessary. Here is a photo of last year's feeder, we will get the same feeder-house today.

To make it, we need two liter boxes of "tetrapack" from juice, a clerical knife, wire or strong twine, a furniture stapler will be useful.

The advantages of such a feeder are a simple and cheap design, bright packaging attracts the attention of birds and decorates the gray winter landscape, the food does not spill out in strong winds, the roof protects the container with food from rain and snow.

Disadvantages: the presence of food in the container is not visible, the feeder is available for all types of birds and therefore it often happens that those who have arrived in in large numbers sparrows do not allow tits to eat food. In the latter case, the way out is a special feeder for tits.

So, we drink juice for the health of birds, rinse the boxes with water.

One of the boxes will be a container for food, the second a roof. Preparing a box. To do this, cut a rectangular hole with a knife, as shown in the figure below.

Important! On the long side of the box, we leave a strip 5 ... 8 mm wide so that it is convenient for the birds to cling to the edge with their paws.

We cut off the neck of the box with a knife as unnecessary.

The hole from the neck on the container box will not interfere with us, but the box that will serve as the roof must be placed with this hole down.

Getting the roof ready. To do this, on three sides of the box - two long and one of the short ones, we draw a line exactly in the middle, along which we cut the box into two parts with a knife.

This is the design we should have. We do not cut one side of the box (top)!

We try, we check. The feeder is almost ready.

We fasten the roof and container with a stapler. If you do not have a stapler, you can fasten it with wire or thread.

In order to prevent water from accumulating in the feeder, several holes must be made in the bottom of the container to drain it. Holes should be made from the inside. You can use a nail or scissors.

In the upper part of the roof, we make holes in the same way and thread wire or twine through them to hang the feeder.

In the cold season, it is difficult for our feathered friends to find food for themselves, especially in winter, when the trees have shed their leaves, and the grass and bushes are covered with snow. It is in our power to help winged creatures survive in terrible times for them. You need to make bird feeders from improvised materials with your own hands.

Dining room for birds

A feeder is not a birdhouse in which a family of birds can live. This is, so to speak, a bird's canteen in which any flying guest can eat. If it is quite simple, then this is a table suspended on ropes from a tree branch.

You can make the simplest feeder out of plywood. Make holes in the corners of the plywood sheet with a nail or drill them with a drill. Thread the twine and hang it on a branch. The birds will not be offended by the unpresentable appearance, but such a feeder is also inconvenient for them, because the birds love to rummage through the feed, throwing it in all directions. Very quickly, nothing will remain on the impromptu table, all the food will fall into the mud or snow. To prevent this from happening, bumpers are needed. In addition, a dinner for the birds can wet the rain or cover the snow. So you need a roof. So, with the form and functionality, everything became clear, it remains only to put your hands on it, because you can make a feeder out of anything.

Waste boxes

In every house, there are probably a couple of empty boxes that are lying around idle. They can make a wonderful bird feeder. Cake boxes are especially good in this regard: you can easily cut windows in them, you can see everything through the transparent walls, and the birds are not afraid of any rustle, and the plastic cap also protects from rain.

For hanging, you can use the same twine with which the cake was tied.

Together with the child, you can make a feeder from a juice box.

To do this, you need to cut a window in one of the walls, insert a cocktail stick from below and attach a rope or cord from above. When the baby on a walk shows the place where you need to hang the feeder, he will consider it his own and begin to make sure that there is always food for the birds in it.

In the same way, feeders are made from milk cartons.

From gift paper bags:

You just need to remember to glue the top edges of the bag so that the roof does not leak.

Veranda for bird dining

From large boxes you can arrange a real dining room for your feathered friends.

It can be made from a shoe box.

Or from candy.

Or from a mailbox.

If all the boxes suddenly run out, and you feel sorry for the birds, you can make a paper feeder, but it will not last long. Better to make it out of cardboard.

House for a long time

All feeders made of cardboard, tetra bags and paper, although they are made quickly enough, do not last long. A couple of rains will pass, and the birds will again have to look for their own food. Plywood will undoubtedly last longer, but it will also become unusable. It is best to make a feeder out of wood or boards.