How to make a bird feeder. Bird feeders - options for how to make them yourself from ordinary materials (55 photos) Make a feeder with your hands from a bottle

Scientists now clearly agree that there are no harmful birds at all. Even from such arrogant rogues as hooded crows and cormorants, as it turned out, there is still much more benefit than harm. Documented attacks by bearded eagle and lamb's eagle on climbers have been caused by climbers approaching their nests; a brood is a brood, it needs to be protected. The second thing that experts are unanimous about is that in winter a bird feeder is needed in residential areas. Many of the small and most useful of them do not make regular flights, but undertake feeding migrations in winter. Near human habitation, food areas remain plentiful longer than in the wild, and when real cold comes with lack of food, there will no longer be enough strength to fly: there will be nothing to eat along the way.

If you describe the bird in one word, it would be movement. There are no and cannot be birds that hibernate or otherwise save their own energy resources when unfavorable conditions occur: the body’s adaptation to flight requires a high metabolic rate. If the bird is hungry and/or cold, it becomes more and more anxious, looking for something nutritious to peck. She does not weaken at the same time until she falls, numb, at the feet of a passerby. Take it to the veterinarians - maybe they will come out. But it’s still better, after spending a little labor, to build a feeder for the winter with your own hands; Almost any household scraps or scraps will work for this.

Wild birds at feeders in winter

Gardeners, gardeners and summer residents who visit their plots in winter will benefit greatly from this: even granivorous birds, sparrows, for example, feed their brood with insects. In the spring, just in time for the chicks to hatch, pests wake up and become active. If you make a bird feeder in the fall and feed their beneficial community on the site, see Fig., you will need to spend much less on plant protection products. Bird feeders, let the reader know, can be made attractive for some species of birds and not very convenient for others, from which there is less benefit. How exactly – this is the focus of this article. Not to the detriment, hopefully, of other aspects of the issue, such as materials that are cheaper or completely free, design, etc.

What kind of feeder should it be?

Let us first imagine the design of a feeding trough. Let’s just imagine it, because there is no need to draw it up on paper and run around with it in offices with serious uncles and caustic aunts. But, firstly, you need to know where and for what purpose the winter bird canteen will be: in the city, outside the city, for temporary feeding in the very cold or for permanently attracting useful helpers. Secondly, who will we feed? Who should we let go ahead, and who should we unobtrusively ask to wait? For example, if others have a bad time, sparrows, crows and pigeons will certainly kill each other. They have long become accustomed to humans and will find something to profit from in the most severe food shortage, but in a dacha or on an estate other birds will be of more use.

Having decided on the “range of desired clientele,” we will choose the design of the feeder. Birds not only do not eat all the same things, they also take food in different ways: from the ground or an extensive solid level support, from thick branches, twigs and tree trunks, clinging to them with their claws, from swaying thin branches and blades of grass; The design of the feeder should provide advantageous access to feed to desired guests. We do not mean birds that take food in the summer; they are all migratory. After this, we will choose the material for the feeder, preferably free, and from it we will see how to make it. This is approximately the WPR (work execution plan).

Who will feed?

As already said, sparrows, pigeons and, especially, crows need to be discouraged from the feeder. What kind of birds are desirable on it? Of course, wintering in this area. They can be divided into 2 categories: the first are nomadic. They do not have specific wintering places; Where there is enough food, it is good there even in winter. They will be the most frequent guests at the feeder. The second ones are obligate, i.e. necessarily wintering in their permanent feeding stations (areas). Only extreme circumstances can drive them to the feeder: a particularly harsh winter, etc. In the central zone of the Russian Federation and in the south of Siberia, in addition to the ubiquitous persistent sparrows, the birds shown in the figure fly to the feeder; a list with names is below it.

Birds you can expect at your feeder in winter

• nuthatch;
• pika;
• lesser spotted woodpecker;
• crossbill;
• jay;
• nutcracker or nutcracker;
• bullfinch;
• waxwing;
• common grosbeak;
• goldfinch;
• yellowhammer;
• greenfinch;
• great tit;
• blue tit;
• tufted tit;
• Muscovy tit;
• long-tailed tit;
• chickadee.

The first trinity are obligately wintering insectivorous birds. Nuthatch and pika extract insects from bark cracks and wood passages with beaks specially adapted for this purpose. Woodpeckers, as you know, gouge their way to prey. At the feeder, you can almost certainly expect only the Lesser Spotted Woodpecker: it has already, one might say, completely gotten along with people, and with a lack of animal food, it is able to feed on hard seeds. Other woodpeckers (black or yellow, great spotted, green, golden or Syrian) will never fly to the feeder, and if a nuthatch and/or pika appear there, it means that the birds are generally unwell this winter, and high-calorie food with animal fats should be given and proteins; which one exactly – more on that later. All these birds take food by clinging to a support.

Crossbills also overwinter obligately, but feed by husking the seeds of conifers from cones, these are the most specialized of shelling birds, their beak has turned into something like tongs. Crossbills even hatch chicks in the middle of winter, when there are plenty of puffed up cones. In general, they don’t care about taking food from a branch or clinging to a support, as long as it’s not from the ground. Jays and nutcrackers are also shellers, but not as skilled. By the way, Kedrovka can be seen not only in the north; sometimes it undertakes long-distance feeding migrations, during which it reaches Spain.

All shelling birds are very useful for the forest, because... contribute to the spread of trees: the crossbill loses a lot of them, restoring the existing forest, and the jay and nutcracker create storehouses of seeds, which are not fully used, or are even completely forgotten. This is how the forest spreads. Forestry specialists are confident that without nutcrackers, maintaining the supply of Siberian pine (Siberian cedar) would be impossible. In addition, jays and nutcrackers destroy a lot of wintering harmful insects.

It is possible to attract shelling birds to your site, but they need a special type of homemade feeders, see below. Shelling feeders are also sold ready-made, but there is nothing in them that you cannot make yourself. They will also be suitable for crossbills in case of cone harvest failure, however, after feeding, they will fly back into the forest.

Note: Just in case, let us also remind you: insectivorous forest birds and shellers fly to people for food in the most extreme cases, and then they must be offered nutritious, high-calorie food. Along the way, they will thoroughly clean up the garden and vegetable garden from overwintering harmful little things.

The bullfinch, waxwing, grosbeak and goldfinch are considered primarily frugivorous birds. There is no mistake here, we are not talking about flesh, but about juicy fruits and berries. Their seeds in the digestive tract of these birds, as a rule, are not digested, but the germination of seeds after such treatment increases. That is, frugivorous birds contribute to the spread of berry bushes and trees. However, frugivorous birds feed their chicks with insects, and while/when there is no harvest, they themselves do not disdain them. Actually, frugivorous birds of middle latitudes can be considered avian omnivores, because. animal feed makes up a significant portion of their diet. The goldfinch can generally consume more insects than plant foods. In the extermination of wintering pests, they complement insectivores and shellers, because those, as a rule, do not take prey that is completely open and motionless, for example. pupae.

It is advisable to introduce frugivorous birds to the site, but with caution. A good bait would be pieces of soft, juicy plant food placed on the roof of the feeder: apple cores with seeds, pumpkin, cucumber. However, before placing bait, you need to take a closer look at the eaters: if a grosbeak is spotted among them, it is better to refuse baiting. In the spring, it pecks out swelling buds and in some places has become a real scourge of gardens and vegetable gardens. Later, the grosbeak more than compensates for the damage, destroying huge numbers of May beetles and cabbage caterpillars, but still there is no need to promote its excessive reproduction.

Note: Sometimes it is advised, as a winter vitamin supplement, to put twigs in the feeder that have been left in water at home until the buds swell. No need, just like any other seedlings, or even absolutely useful tits, can learn to “bear wood.” The best vitamin food for birds in winter is cores of apples and pears with seeds, fibrous core of pumpkin with seeds, bunches of viburnum, rowan, elderberry, dried rose hips, cherry (can be made from compote) and grape seeds. For more information about feed, see below.

Fruit-eating birds take food from the ground and clinging to a support, so the feeder for them can be anything other than a swinging suspension, see below. They are stronger and stronger than sparrows, but not so impudent, so they are not competitors for tits if there is enough food. Goldfinches are the most common species at the feeder; they are close to becoming obligately hibernating human symbionts. Here it is useful to remember Saint-Exupery: “We are responsible for those we have tamed.”

Siskins, buntings and greenfinches are granivorous birds. Their seedlings have nothing to fear from weeds: they prefer wild grass seeds. The chicks are fed insects. Food is taken from the ground and from a swaying twig/blade of grass. They are friendly with tits, but sparrows need to be kept away from their feeder: granivorous birds are small, not very strong and non-aggressive.

Note: The author is deeply convinced that the old song about the little siskin who drank vodka on the Fontanka was composed not only as a mockery of the cadets of one of the elite cadet corps who wore yellow and black uniforms. In nature, the siskin really has a somewhat drowsy and arrogant look, like that of a beginning heavy drinker who has just grabbed (snatched, grunted, missed, rolled, knocked over, knocked over, etc., etc.) a stopper or two, see fig. on right. That doesn’t stop him from being as careful and prudent as a bird.

Finally, a horde of tit birds who steal wheat only from the house that Jack built. In fact, insects are an indispensable and significant part of their diet, and of varying sizes. If the great and tufted tits are able to cope with locusts, then the long-tailed tit and chickadee are not averse to pecking at aphids and spider mites. The tits have gotten along quite well with people; there is no need to attract them, they will come on their own. In normal winters, feeding should be given with dry plant matter, and in severe frosts - highly nutritious, like other insectivores. Then, having become bored with the dry grass over the winter, the titmice will attack the pests in the spring, not allowing them to properly stretch their mandibles, and they will immediately have no time for seedlings with crops. And whoever survives this beak slaughter will no longer be able to cause significant damage to the crop. Tits can take food from the thinnest branches blown by the wind; they only have one evolutionary step left to learn how to take food from the summer. This makes it easier to create specialized tit canteens.

What about sparrows?

Sparrows are no less useful than other granivores, but they are daring, sneaky, and live in flocks. And an ordinary bird feeder, unlike crows and pigeons, is quite suitable in size for them. Sparrows take food mainly from the ground, but they are not afraid of branches. Therefore, they are able to eat other birds, when for them feeding is a matter of life and death, and the chirping scoundrels themselves, in the meantime, could hold out somehow. So it is advisable to arrange a winter bird feeder in such a way that sparrows fly to it only if the wind is really blowing in the crop.

Diagram of a bird feeder that is unattractive to sparrows

Here you can use their caution and manner of avoiding danger. If you noticed, the sparrows run away, starting from a place steeply upward. Therefore, a feeder with low entrances (windows for birds to access the food) and a steep roof with large overhangs is unattractive for sparrows: in order to escape from there, you must first flutter to the side, and this is not sparrow-like. An “anti-sparrow” feeder can be made similar to a chicken feeder, diagram in Fig. Next we will consider other options.

Types of feeders

When choosing the type of feeder, in addition to the species composition of the guests, you need to keep in mind the following:

• Birds navigate primarily by sight; Their hearing is rather weak, and their sense of smell, one might say, is non-existent. Therefore, the food should be visible from afar.
• The food must be protected from being blown by the wind, snowed in, or eaten by unwanted visitors such as squirrels or chipmunks.
• It is also advisable to avoid spilling food on the ground so as not to give “beacons” to small predators. By the way, the most dangerous of them are not cats, domestic and wild, but much more cunning, ferocious and bloodthirsty ferrets, weasels and stoats. There are quite a few of them living near homes, but they are very good at not being seen.
• It is better to hang feeders for temporary feeding in winter, so they will attract sparrows less.
• Stationary feeders for attracting birds to the site should be placed on poles with protection from predators, see below. Birds flying to feed will recognize the area as theirs if the food is found on a sufficiently large, flat, stable area.

Based on everything stated above, let’s see which winter bird feeders are better in which case. Their main types are shown in the figure:

Types of winter feeders for wild birds

1 – hanging feeder. Just food on a string or in a mesh case. A typical tit feeder in case of extreme cold. Among other birds, it can be visited by forest insectivores, except woodpeckers. “Antifreeze” food for tits – just a piece of unsalted lard, pos. 1 on next rice. A more nutritious option, also designed for shellers, is a ball of a mixture of seeds (see below), held together with congealed lard or peanut butter in a vegetable net, pos. 2. However, there is no need to cast the feed mass into plastic cups or beautiful shapes and freeze it (pos. 6,7), it is difficult for birds to cling and the calories from feeding may not compensate for the energy consumption to support themselves by fluttering their wings. The ball from the finished mass must be sculpted by hand in the cold; the fat hardens quickly, and the ball can be hung immediately.

Hanging feeders for tits

A hanging feeder can be made for certain species of birds. For example, great tits readily peck at garlands of dried berries (especially rose hips) or peanut pods, pos. 3, 4. But blue tits love to ride on swings, and balls for them need to be hung on the thinnest and most elastic branches or even designed in an original way in the form of mobile sculptures, or mobiles, poses. 5. Great tits will also fly there, but they do not fight with blue tits.

For shelling birds, bullfinches and waxwings, hanging feeding from a cone will be good; For visibility, it’s a good idea to supplement it with a bunch of viburnum or rowan, pos. 1 to the following figure:

Hanging feeder made of pine cones

If there is no fertile cone, any disheveled one will do: it is doused with peanut butter (pos. 2), solid food is stuffed between the scales (pos. 3), and hanged. Bird lovers and animal photographers, hanging cone baits since the summer, manage to make even crossbills their regular guests.

Paper hanging feeders

A hanging feeder for any birds that take food from a swinging support can be quickly made from paper. In fact, paper is not a material for winter feeders: it becomes limp and pecks. But a spool from a toilet paper roll, smeared with the same peanut butter and sprinkled with seeds (see the picture on the right), can save more than one poor creature right before your eyes, and you can make such a feeder in literally 5 minutes. The colored tails below are not a whim; they are visible to birds from afar and attract their attention. It is better to make the tails red and/or green: for birds, red means berries, and where there is greenery in winter, there will be food.

2 – platform. The advantage is that the feed is clearly visible. Disadvantages: the food falls asleep in the snow, the wind blows it up, a lot of it wakes up, the sparrows feel at home on it.

Feeder-house out of the box

3 – house. The food is protected from snow; By selecting the roof structure, the feeder-house can be made windproof and anti-sparrow. But a lot of food still wakes up, and only birds that are accustomed to feeding will come to dine. Forest dwellers, reaching for housing in an extreme situation, may simply not see what is there and drop dead two steps away. A feeding house with a sloping roof can also be quickly built from a box, as shown in Fig. on right. If circumstances allow, then it is advisable to soak the box three to five times diluted with PVA (it is also useful for cardboard feeders), and glue supports from sticks/twigs. Then the structure will be enough for more than one winter. This feeder is nailed to the tree.

Note: the feeding platform can be converted into a house and back as needed (weather, etc.) by attaching a removable roof made of thin hard plastic, see fig. left. PET from cut bottles, sewn with fishing line or stapled with a stapler, works well, but thin polycarbonate will also work. In the latter case, you need to nail slats with grooves to the sides of the platform and slide the roof in and out of them.

Feeder house for strong birds

A feeder-house with a pitched roof is also convenient for fairly large and strong birds: pigeons, waxwings, jays, nutcrackers. They all don’t mind feeding in a row, so a dining house for them needs to be made with a perch. Material – any suitable, incl. and treated cardboard as a wood substitute, see below. The feeder for these birds should be larger than for small birds; For approximate dimensions see fig. on right. It’s tempting to quickly build a similar one from a shoebox, in the same place, but it won’t last long: strong, active birds will tear and peck at the weak material in a feeding or two.

4 – bunker. Optimal in all respects, including anti-sparrow resistance. The fact is that sparrows are flocking birds. If the flock does not fit in the feeding area, 1-2 sparrows will not “run over” the buntings with chickadees: they will eat in someone else’s company, but take turns and observe decency.

Homemade bunker bird feeders

Homemade bunker feeders come in different designs, see fig. In the center there is a special area for tits and small spotted woodpeckers (a hard narrow area, see below). She and the one on the right are anti-sparrows. Modern materials make it possible to manufacture such an effective feeder as a bunker in 5 minutes. How is clear from Fig. on right.

Making a bird feeder from a bottle

Materials – PET bottle, plastic plate, nylon thread, superglue. Tools – scissors, knife, gypsy needle. And this feeder will last for more than one winter.

5.6 – tray. The food is poorly visible, so these are feeders for familiar and important birds. What is better to do in front of the entrance, a landing platform or a perch-pole, depends on the type of feeding; What is more convenient for someone, we will see further in the course of the presentation. They are divided into designs with free access to feed (5 in the figure at the beginning of the section) and its automatic feeding into the feeding tray (6 in the same place). The latter are even better than bunker ones: the feed practically does not spill. We will look at them in more detail later. A tray feeder can be designed to accommodate only 1 or several species of birds (6), but to do this you need to have serious knowledge of ornithology, appropriate tools and skills; Specialized tray feeders are commercially available in a fairly wide range.

Note: if the tray canteen is planned to be publicly accessible, the food in it can be made clearly visible by making the bin completely or partially transparent from plastic.

7 – specialized feeder-husker for birds of the appropriate type of food. The feed is held in place by a metal mesh. It can be combined with a tray and thus become combined.

Materials and designs
Plastic

The most popular feeders today are plastic. There are several reasons: empty, unusable plastic containers have nowhere to go, transparent plastic makes the food visible from afar, working with plastic is easy, not wasteful, and can be done at home without special tools. Plastics are durable, resistant, bird feeders made from them will last for many years and can be made of any type.

Plastic bird feeders

If you make a feeding house out of plastic, pos. 1 in Fig., please note that the roof should be matte and generally opaque. Wild birds, of course, are smarter than tame canaries and parrots, but when they see a sneaking cat (or, say, the shine of a lens), they can hit the transparent lens out of fright.

Good small plastic feeders are made from used toys: cubes, etc. They are made from polyethylene, so the only reliable way to glue, for example, a roof is instant cyanoacrylate glue (superglue). The feeders are clearly visible, all birds are curious to one degree or another, so there are no problems with the visibility of food. Round holes in polyethylene are easily cut with a ballerina compass with two needles. Homemade products for pos. 2 For complete bird happiness, the only thing missing is perches: polyethylene is slippery.

At pos. 3 and 4 are already purchased plastic feeders. Just a note: the house on pos. 3 costs 180 rubles, and the transparent “firm” at pos. 4 – three times more. But the same feeder can be glued together from scraps of polycarbonate and equipped, if you really want it for a window, with suction cups for bathroom shelves.

Feeders made from unusable plastic containers deserve special consideration, see fig. below. The design for pos. is very well thought out. 1. A wide tray provides good visibility of food, and in combination with a perch allows any birds to feed. The large capacity of the tray and the corresponding supply of food in it do not require frequent approaches from feeders, which frightens the birds less. The trough-shaped tray ensures minimal spillage of feed. Wing hatches bent upward provide an anti-sparrow effect; The platform they form on top allows you to place juicy vitamin supplements.

Bird feeders made from unusable containers

Feeders for pos. 2 and 3 are focused on tits, goldfinches and granivores. The main thing in them is a properly designed dispenser tray, see below. Simpler feeders for the same tribe, pos. 4 and 5, you can hang it if the sparrows are not very annoying. At pos. 4 there is a container for computer disks, this is more for small things like siskins, and the feeding station from a sour cream bucket (item 5) will also feed bullfinches and waxwings.

Feeders made from used containers for liquid products can also be classified as plastic. The milk-kefir bags are, however, cardboard, but they are laminated with film on both sides, so they will last through the winter. Well, as for bottles and containers, they are made of PET. Small milk and juice packets make excellent feeders for tits, goldfinches, and granivores; you just need to insert a perch stick, pos. 1 on next rice. For the same birds, if the egg is used, you need to cut openings in the vessel about 6x8 cm, each on 3 sides, not reaching 3-4 cm to the bottom, and bend the valves outward, pos. 2.

Bird feeders made from bags and bottles

If you screw a hard wooden circle to the bottom of the dishes instead of wobbly valves, you can count on visits from the Lesser Spotted Woodpecker. He won’t sit on a tit flap: what kind of woodpecker will he be if he doesn’t cling to a tree with his claws?

Large bags make public canteens, then the openings need to be cut larger so that the food can be seen from afar. In the case when the feeder is suspended in free space, you must also pierce it with a perch, pos. 4. When placed in a bush as a perch for tits, its branches, pos. 5, and the sparrows will be uncomfortable here.

Egg bag and tray...

How to make a bird feeder from a plastic bottle

How to make a feeder from a plastic container and a 0.25-0.5 liter bottle is shown in Fig. on right. The hook at the bottom is optional; hanging food can be hung on it, see above. However, for other types of feeders, the bottle dispenser tray may be too big. In this case, it can be glued together from cardboard or several layers of paper soaked in diluted PVA, see next. rice.:

Construction of a bird feeder tray made from eggplant

Yellow arrows show the paths of feed movement. To make him wake up less, the inner end of the perch stick should reach the rear edge of the tray; Of course, you can pierce the vessel right through with it. The arrows in the center of the circle give the horizontal and vertical scale, i.e. the entrance will be 6 cm in diameter, this is enough for birds no larger than a great tit.

... and a house made of packages

Feeder house made from juice bags

From 2 juice packets you get a good tit feeder-house, see fig. on right. The entire structure is held together with straws from the same juice, their protruding ends will be perches. To prevent the perches from bending (the corrugation of the straw remains outside), it is advisable to insert thin twigs into the tubes; can be broken off right there on the spot.

Wooden feeders are good for their durability: impregnated with drying oil, water-polymer emulsion or its substitute in the form of diluted PVA and painted, they last for years. Therefore, wooden feeders are most often made stationary. Of course, to make them you will also need carpentry tools with a separate workplace.

A simple homemade bird feeder made of wood

The traditional design of a wooden feeder is a house. A view of the simplest homemade wooden feeder with dimensions is shown in Fig. left. However, firstly, such a feeder does not protect food from weathering, because the space under the flat roof is blown through. Secondly, by seemingly slightly changing the configuration and proportions of the parts, it is possible to specialize the feeder quite strongly. E.g. pos. 1 in Fig. Below is public. Pos. 2 will attract shelling birds: landing on the slats protruding to the side and pulling out seeds through the lathing will give the complete illusion of the usual feeding process. Pos. 3 and 4 – with weakened blowing of food and a noticeable anti-passerine effect, for small and larger birds, respectively. Pos. 5 – almost windproof and fundamentally anti-sparrow: a sparrow that has retained its common sense will fly into this only as a last resort.

Winter bird feeders made of wood

It is more convenient and easier to make winter hanging wooden feeders from plywood and blocks of approximately 30x30 or 30x40 mm. Here you can do without lumber at all by gluing PVA bars from strips of the same plywood. However, stationary feeders on poles will be more durable from solid wood, because... plywood outdoors, except for expensive waterproof birch, after a season or two begins to delaminate with any impregnation.

Drawings of a stationary wooden bird feeder

For example in Fig. Above is a drawing of a country, garden or forest feeder for all types of birds. A tin tray on a pole not only keeps predators out, but also serves as a dining area for sparrows. The lifting liner (it slides freely on the post) makes cleaning easier and allows birds of one species to feed from their recess, leaving others to feed. You can hang nets or cones with food for shellers on a pole under the roof, and hanging food for tits at the corners of the platform. The roof is removable and on hooks for easy maintenance.

Wooden special

Double Deck Hanging Bird Feeder

A hanging analogue of such a feeder, as they say now, with simplified functionality, is shown in Fig. on right. The diameter of the floor platforms is about 500 mm. The ledges on the middle platform are convenient for birds looking at the food before starting to eat. In this case, the sparrows are given the upper platform: these troublemakers will scatter the food anyway, so you can do without a side, although it won’t hurt.

In Fig. Below are wooden feeders, bunker and tray, which can be converted into combined ones, suitable for hullers. The fact is that in these designs, to improve the visibility of the feed, the bunkers are made with glazed windows. Replacing glass with a steel mesh with a mesh size of about 5x5 mm will allow shellers to pull out seeds while others are pecking from trays or from the platform.

Wooden bird feeders with good visibility of food

How to do without a tree

Wooden feeders look better than home-made plastic ones; they are easier to adapt to the needs of both the birds and the owner. But what to do if you don’t have woodworking tools or don’t want to start carpentry with its sawdust and shavings in the house?

A feeder that is not inferior to a wooden one in terms of convenience and appearance and can last at least 3-4 seasons can be made from corrugated cardboard from packaging boxes that have become unnecessary. Of course, it will take more time, but the only tools you will need are a pencil, a ruler, a square, a sharp knife, scissors, an awl, PVA glue and a brush for it. The technology is similar to making cardboard shelves:

Making a wooden board substitute from corrugated cardboard

• For each part, 2-5 blanks-plates of the same size are cut out, depending on the required thickness, but with an internal corrugation oriented alternately along and across, see fig. on right;
• Each layer is impregnated on one side and the other with a water-polymer emulsion. It is not sold in small packaging, but its full replacement is PVA diluted three to five times with water. This work should be done on a plastic film underneath;
• A day later (if the sheets were drying at room temperature), the part is glued together with PVA in the same order: corrugation along/corrugation across, see the same figure;
• The part is dried on film, the top is also covered with film and pressed down with several books, evenly covering its entire area;
• The feeder is assembled using the same PVA glue;
• After drying, the end connections are reinforced with pins made of toothpicks or pointed matches without heads: the holes for the pins are pricked with an awl from top to bottom, a drop of glue is introduced into each and the pin is immediately pressed in;
• The open ends are sealed with strips of plain cardboard or thick paper soaked in diluted PVA;
• After 3-4 days of drying, the product can be painted, varnished, openings can be decorated with plastic, mesh can be attached, etc.

Original feeders

Anyone who takes up tinkering wants to make something of their own, unusual and unique. Unusual feeders can be divided into original ones based on the technique of execution or some functional features and simply beautiful, designer ones. One, of course, is no hindrance to the other, if only one’s hands were in place.

The first few, let's say, technical and functional ones, are shown in the figure:

Original bird feeders

Pos. 1 – special for shellers, frugivores and large granivores. The cob is placed on a nail driven through the bottom. Here it is necessary to note that the corn should be hard, fodder or oilseed varieties, with smaller grains. Canteen sugar will be harmful to birds: its grains contain too much starch and sugars.

Pos. Doesn’t require 2 comments: over the summer I accumulated ice cream sticks, then PVA, strings, and that’s it. If you make a pole on each side, then 4 siskins or chickadees will be able to feed at once. Pos. 3 is woven from paper tubes. The work is complex and time-consuming, especially considering that they need to be properly protected from limpness. However, judging by the fact that in such a small area there are as many as 3 great tits feeding and another one is waiting in line, the birds really like this creation.

Applying a mark to the end of the cable

Finally, pos. 4, from a tin can. Here it would not hurt to put a perch made of a stick in the braid instead of a slippery cold piece of iron. The manufacturing technology allows this quite well: the can is tied with a rope in the same way that sailors, riggers, or, say, high-rise assemblers, apply a mark to the end of the cable, see fig. on right.

If you take decorative feeders, then there are no restrictions on the design: the bright colors of the birds do not scare away, they can easily distinguish a drawn cat from a living one, and they will even peck the image in revenge; Let's just give a few examples in the figure:

Decorative bird feeders

According to the execution technique, it is better to avoid varnished and shiny surfaces, as in pos. 1. On a smooth surface, it is more difficult for the claws to catch on, the grains dodge the beak, and the glare hurts the bird’s sensitive eyes.

Pumpkin feeders for wild birds do not fit into any classification, but for birds this is a real paradise: proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins and microelements - all in one and in sufficient quantity for everyone. Plus, the support is strong and at the same time pliable under the claws. It is not necessary to make something like a house out of a pumpkin or carve a scarecrow’s face on it, as in the figure: it is enough to remove a piece of skin from one side to the pulp, and before spring only the peel will remain from the pumpkin. Perhaps suitable for fun crafts.

Pumpkin feeders for wild birds

What to feed wild birds?

All that remains is to decide what kind of bird food to put in the feeder. The best food for all wintering birds is wild grass seeds, especially burdocks. Songbird lovers and ornithologists collect turnip seeds in the summer or buy them at pet stores. Next, in order of preference by birds and benefits for them:

Note: if it is possible to buy the so-called at a pet store. Canary seed or grain mixture for budgies is just what any bird at the feeder needs.

Wheat, rye and bread made from them should be avoided: the bird's body is not designed to process excess starch. Black bread is especially dangerous: it causes inflammation of the goiter, which often leads to the death of the bird. Completely dry white bread crumbs can be given to pigeons and fruit-eating birds. The same applies to all cereals that swell greatly during cooking: barley (barley), rice, buckwheat. As mentioned above, you need to be careful with corn. In general, one must keep in mind that wild birds are smaller than chickens and ducks, and their digestion is unaccustomed to domestic feed.

Note: the peel of citrus and tropical fruits - bananas, mangoes, avocados, mangosteens, sapodillas, etc. is a deadly poison for our birds. It's a matter of sugar composition.

The best vitamin supplements, as already mentioned, are brushes and bunches of wild berries. In addition to the mentioned rowan, viburnum, and elderberry, barberries, currants, chokeberries, and junipers are also readily eaten. In the southern regions - cotoneaster, berries of “wild grapes” (cissus), boxwood. Seeds of table grapes, cherries and cherries from compote, melon and watermelon seeds (not pulp!), cores of apples and pears with seeds, grated raw carrots are also an excellent vitamin supplement. You should not give whole fruits: having fed on them, even the most principled tit will not resist the temptation to peck them in the garden in the summer.

An important component of the bird's diet is mineral nutrition and solid inclusions that grind food in the stomach. The most important mineral is calcium. Its source at the feeder is finely crushed eggshells. It must be given without fail if you want the winter eaters to nest right away in the spring. Birds, like domestic chickens, also need sand. It needs to be sprinkled a little at a time, always river rounded and the smallest.

So, a certain young man with an actively destructive way of thinking in the winter heard that black bread and banana peels are killer for birds. He immediately set to work: he was not lazy and put together a feeding trough, dried and finely crushed banana peels. Then he forked out for a loaf of Borodinsky for 40 rubles. at the price at that time, I crushed it too. I mixed everything, hung up the feeder, and poured bird poison into it.

The next morning I went, anticipating the “task,” to see how many of them were lying there dead with swollen crops. It turned out - not a single one, the food was not touched. Before the unlucky terrorist had time to decide what he should think about this, flocks of trees fell from the surrounding trees and showered Grisha with “business cards.” The individual “cards” merged into a continuous blanket, and a pile formed on the head. Since then, the poor fellow carefully and cautiously avoids even flocks of sparrows on the asphalt.

This article contains many ideas on how to make a bird feeder from plastic bottles.

Often in kindergartens and elementary schools, children are asked to make a bird feeder together with their parents.

There are plastic bottles in every home. Both regular 1.5 and 2 liter bottles and large 5 liter containers are suitable for bird feeders. The process of making such a device for birds will be fascinating for both children and adults. A hanging feeder in the courtyard of a house, kindergarten or school will decorate the area and also attract children's attention to the world around them.

A few tips before you start making the device:

• Keep in mind that the feeder is made for birds, and not just to decorate the yard. The windows in it should be wide so that the birds can freely take food, fly in and fly out without getting hurt.
• Make holes in the bottom of the bottle so that rain or melt water that will get inside the feeder can drain and not spoil the food.
• Do not make additional decorations for the feeder from rustling or rattling materials., since such sounds will scare away birds.
• Hang feeders away from windows and walls of the house, otherwise you will have to constantly wash the surface of bird droppings and listen to the birds’ “showdowns”.
• The feeder should be hung freely on a branch. If you attach it to the trunk, then there is a chance that a cat will choose it and then the birds will not come.

How to make a simple bird feeder from plastic bottles - diagram, description:

• Take a regular plastic bottle. A liter, one and a half, two liter and even half a liter will do.
• First draw an outline with a felt-tip pen, and then cut a hole twice the height of, for example, a tit. The hole should be large - about 15 cm, so that the bird does not get hurt or get stuck in the bottle. Step back 4-5 cm from the bottom of the bottle. This is necessary so that the food does not spill out.
• Wrap electrical tape around the edge of the hole. This is important, because birds can get injured when they jump onto the edge of the hole with their paws.
• Tie a rope or thick thread to the neck. Don't forget about the holes at the bottom so that water can drain and the food doesn't spoil.
• That's it - the bottle is ready. Pour food and hang it from a branch.

If the bottle is wide, then you can cut holes on both sides, as in this diagram on a milk bottle. The distance between two holes is no more than 2-3 cm.

The simplest feeder can be made in a few minutes, and the birds will be able to overwinter during the hungry and cold season for them.

One and a half plastic bottles are the most popular. There are probably a couple of these plastic containers in your home right now. Let's make a feeder with spoons or ordinary wooden sticks.

Diagram and description of how to make a bird feeder from a 1.5-liter plastic bottle:

• Take a 1.5 liter bottle and make 4 holes. Try to make them in the center. One hole should be at the bottom of the bottle, the other at the top.
• Insert spoons or wooden sticks.
• That's it - the feeder is ready. The food will be poured onto the surface of the wooden “spatula” as the birds eat it.

Advice: Make holes for one spoon along an inclined straight line so that food is constantly poured onto the bowl-shaped part of the spoon. In addition, the hole on the side where the bird will eat must be larger than the diameter of the spoon holder so that the food can easily fall into the bowl of the spoon.

Important: The bottle must be clean. If it comes from sweet water, wash it before you start making the fixture.

Advice: Pour food into this feeder through the top hole using a funnel. But first make holes and insert spoons.

If you want to make a large bird feeder so that several birds can easily peck grains at the same time in winter, then you will need a 5-liter plastic bottle. Such a feeder will look like a real bird house - large and comfortable.

How to make a bird feeder from a 5-liter plastic bottle? Here are the instructions:

Mark with a felt-tip pen the outline along which you will cut the holes. There can be 2 or 4 of them. Cut out the holes.

Then tape around all the edges of the holes with duct tape. Some craftsmen or craftswomen tie the edges with yarn. You can also burn them over a fire. Do as you feel comfortable.

Important: Do not use tape to cover the hole, as birds may peck at it and die from it.

If your bottle has a handle, then simply tie a ribbon to it. If there is no handle, then make a hole in the lid, then thread both ends of the string or ribbon through it and tie them together. There will be a loop at the top from which you can hang the feeder from a branch.

As you can see, making a large feeder is also simple and quick. Decorate it as you wish and your stylish bird feeding device is ready.

A feeder made of two plastic bottles is a device with a dispenser. You will not need to constantly add food; it will flow from the first bottle to the second as the birds eat the grains.

How to make an original bird feeder from 2 plastic bottles? Here are the instructions:

• Take a large 5 liter bottle. Make holes on 4 sides as described above. Now set it aside and move on to the second bottle.
• You need to cut off the bottom so that its neck does not reach the bottom of a large bottle by 2-3 cm. How much to cut will depend on the volume of your bottle.
• Then pour the grain into the bottom of a large bottle and place the second bottle with its neck on top of it.
• Now unscrew the cap of the big bottle and pour the grain into the second container. Screw on the lid, tie a rope to the neck and hang the feeder from the tree.

Here is another feeder made according to the same instructions, but from two bottles of equal volume.

If you need to make a feeder for your child in kindergarten or you want to hang it in the yard of your house, then it’s worth decorating this device. But, as mentioned above, do not use rustling or rattling materials for this so that the birds are not frightened by loud sounds. How to decorate a homemade bird feeder made from plastic bottles? Here are some options:

Draw any image on the surface of the bottle. If it is large in volume, then you can paint a real artistic landscape or make a drawing in the Russian folk style.

A colorful ornament will also perfectly decorate the feeder. Use your imagination and you will get a bright and original design for a bird feeder.

Paint a water bottle green, and the cut-out bottoms from other liter or one-and-a-half bottles in bright colors. Attach the resulting flowers to a green feeder, you will get a real bouquet.

Even children's toys are suitable for decoration.. For example, a “flying saucer” can be the roof of a feeding trough - original and beautiful. Draw a simple design on the bottle with ordinary multi-colored markers that do not wash off with water, and your bird shelter is ready.

If you are interested in weaving using the macrame technique, then you can tie a feeder from a 5-liter bottle with multi-colored twisted threads. This feeder will be in a single copy and will perfectly decorate any yard.

Show a little imagination, use different needlework techniques and you can make an original decoration for a bird feeder. Below you will find some interesting ideas for inspiration.

Doing something yourself is always interesting. Every home has many unnecessary things that can be used to create original feeders. Look at a few ideas and photos of beautiful homemade bird feeders made from plastic bottles, and you will definitely want to make such a device for birds:

If you have a straw bread box or candy bowl in your house, make this bee feeder - unusual and beautiful.

Here's another bee-themed feeder: an old broom, a painted plastic bottle and some toy bees. The winter garden will immediately sparkle with different colors.

This feeder, which consists of 3 bottles, is decorated only with braid and a small design. By the way, you can use old hair clips and other similar things to design such bird devices. Stick them on the bottles and the decor is ready!

Feeders are often decorated in Russian folk style. After all, they will hang among the trees and you want such things to complement the overall landscape design. Jute is woven around the finished feeder with holes cut out for birds, and a regular whitewash brush serves as the roof. Add an applique and your uniquely designed feeder is ready.

Beautiful homemade bird feeders made from plastic bottles

Here is another decoration option: the bottom of one bottle serves as a roof for a feeder, which is made from another plastic container of a slightly smaller volume.

And these feeders are like real bird houses - bright, colorful and original.

If you made a feeder from a plastic bottle and you want to continue creating, then you can make a couple more of the same devices. After all, in a cold winter, all the feeders will be in use: there are many birds, but little food - everything is covered with snow. You can use old tin cans and even dishes from the kitchen.

Making a bird feeder with your child is a great way to spend time and communicate, which children miss so much, because parents are constantly busy with things. Let's take time for our child and help the birds survive the winter.

Video: DIY bird feeders original ideas

Instead of throwing away plastic water and lemonade bottles, you can put them to good use. For example, make a bird feeder. The manufacturing process will be interesting for both children and adults, and in addition, your feathered friends will be very grateful. A DIY bird feeder made from plastic bottles hanging on a tree will decorate the yard and attract children's attention to the surrounding nature.

Before you start making a feeder, you should keep in mind that it is made primarily for birds, and not just for decoration. The width of the windows should allow them to fly in and fly out freely without damaging their legs and wings. It is necessary to make holes in the plastic bottom so that water that gets inside does not linger and spoil the food. Decorations rustling and rattling in the wind will not attract birds, but will scare them away.

Also, you should not hang feeders close to windows and walls of the house: firstly, washing bird droppings is difficult and unpleasant, and secondly, constant bird “showdowns” will quickly get boring. The feeder should be light enough to be suspended. If it is securely fastened, there is a chance that a cat will choose it instead of birds.

Let's get started

Tools you need are a bottle, a utility knife, rope, a felt-tip pen and tape.

Master class on making a feeder. Plastic bottles must be clean, the volume does not really matter. Using a felt-tip pen, outline the outline of the future hole, or two, if desired. If you cut two holes, you need to leave 1.5-2 cm jumpers between them.

The larger the holes, the larger the birds will be able to fly to visit. It is advisable to seal the holes with tape so that the birds do not get hurt.

But there is another danger: birds can peck at the tape and die from it. It is best to tie the sharp edges with thick yarn or melt them with fire. Holes are made in the bottom of the bottle to drain water. The rope is tied to the neck, food is poured inside and the feeder is ready.

The best feeder with dosed food, then you don’t have to check every day whether there is still food for the birds. Stepping back a little from the bottom, a small hole is made in the bottle. The bottle filled with food should be placed on a flat stand or bowl.

Large feeders

From a 5-liter bottle you can make a wonderful large feeder, where not only sparrows and tits, but also larger birds can fly. It can be placed on its side:

Arrange as a gazebo:

Make windows with cornices:

Take care of your roof:

Insert the small bottle into the larger one to dose the feed:

Original design

We learned how to make a feeder from a plastic bottle. Now we need to figure out how to decorate the craft so that it pleases not only the birds, but also the eyes of people. A plastic bottle can be decorated using other plastic bottles, spray paint, a soldering iron and Moment glue. Flowers are cut out from the bottoms of liter or 1.5 liter bottles, painted in different colors and attached to the feeder with a stapler.

The bottle is wrapped in burlap, glued and painted. A bunch of straw is placed on top, imitating a roof, and flowers are attached in the form of appliqués.

Do you remember how, even in childhood, educators and then teachers diligently instilled in us a love for our little brothers? We willingly made bird feeders during labor lessons and were not lazy to fill them regularly, taking care of the birds during the cold season. Years have passed and high technology has come into our lives, but progress has not affected the colorful flocks of birds. In winter they still need support, which even now costs almost nothing. The simplest bird feeder made from a plastic bottle, hanging outside the window or in the yard, can be made in just a couple of minutes, and is practically inexpensive to maintain. Maybe we can make bird feeders from plastic bottles right now? Yeah why not!

But before starting a master class with instructions on how to make a feeder from a plastic bottle, we will only barely touch upon the topic of the value of this craft. The primary benefit is obvious - it is practical help for birds suffering from nutritional deficiency in the cold. It is for this reason that birds fly to cities in winter, closer to people. But also in the pedagogical aspect, making this craft has value. By involving a child or teenager in the process, we form a full-fledged personality—we embed in the consciousness of a future member of society the concepts of virtue, responsibility, and love for living nature. And making bird canteens from plastic bottles with your own hands is much more interesting than playing empty virtual games.

Materials and components

Do you remember how bird houses used to be made from plywood, wooden blocks, milk cartons and other available food? This is all because at that time we simply did not have PET bottles for soda and other liquids. The appearance of soft plastic containers will only make our task easier. Let's make a bird canteen out of bottles on our own, using step-by-step methodological diagrams. Together with the kids, of course. The kids will definitely love this activity.

In addition to PET containers from 1.5 liters or more, we will also need: disposable plastic spoons and wooden skewers (twigs), strong ropes and scraps of nylon rope. Use acrylic paints (on plastic) or self-adhesive film to decorate the feeder as desired. All you need is an awl, scissors and a stationery knife. Use foil, rustling candy wrappers and “crispy” cellophane to a minimum - an excess of such decor can scare away small birds.

Feeder-teremok from a regular PET bottle

The first step-by-step diagram shows a beautiful bird's dining room-teremok. Anyone can make one from plastic bottles with their own simple tools. In winter, this will be a feeding place for forest tits, and in the summer heat, it will be a drinking bowl for birds from stuffy city neighborhoods.

Shall we get to work? So:

• Trim the top of the bottle with your cutting tools: scissors, a utility knife, whatever you are most used to using. This is the future roof of our little house;
• The height of the remaining bottom must be reduced by about a third, and then a hole of the required size must be cut into the body of the “house”. The small size of the hole gives access inside only to small birds - bullfinches, tits, etc.;
• When cutting out a window, do not rush to cut off the extra “tab” of plastic. It can be bent outward, forming a convenient bridge for landing;
• Treat the parts of the future feeder with decorative materials (paints, beautiful stickers, film, etc.) Fig. 1 will help you with design ideas.

The bird feeder made from a plastic bottle is almost ready. All that remains is to hang the lower part of the house on the braid, making 2 holes in the workpiece with an awl. Then pull the ribbon from the inside through the top of the bottle, after making a hole in its cork. Rice. 1 will help you navigate this. Hang your designer birdhouse made from a plastic bottle on a tree branch in the park and fill it with food. Guests won't have to wait too long!

Original bunker feeder for bullfinches

The second picture will introduce you to an even simpler idea. The special feature of this feeder made of plastic parts is that it does not require too frequent filling due to the feed hopper tank. And making such a bird feeder from plastic containers couldn’t be easier—you don’t even have to cut the bottle. But what you should pay special attention to in Fig. 2 is the width of the neck of the future bird canteen. The looser it is, the more convenient it will be for you to add food. So:

• Take any plastic bottle with a wide neck (for example, a liter milk bottle) and pierce it through with wooden skewers along the holes marked with an awl. The skewers should stick out on both sides - these are landing perches for arriving birds;
• Make several such punctures at different heights so that the birds do not interfere with each other if, upon arrival, they sit on all the perches at once;
• All that remains is to make holes through which bullfinches will pull loose food out of the feeder. A diameter of 0.5-1 cm will be sufficient (if grain and cereals are poured into the bunker). Holes can be burned out over the perches with a hot nail or carefully cut out with nail scissors.

This is interesting! Look how well the skewers-perches of the bunker feeder have been replaced with wooden spoons in the figure. 3. The principle of manufacturing the structure remains the same, however, the size of the feeding window can be increased, and the landing of birds will become much more convenient. Wooden spoons can be replaced with disposable plastic ones. And don’t be afraid that a lot of food will spill onto the ground. It is enough to lightly trample the snow under the feeder so that the birds peck all the falling food.

The original bird feeder is ready for uninterrupted service for the benefit of our feathered friends. It remains to be noted that the transparent PET bottle, taken as a basis, allows you to see from a distance the percentage of the bin being filled with food. But an opaque feeder will have to be checked manually every time.

Large bird feeder and birdhouses

In general, a feeder made from a plastic bottle can feed a whole flock of hungry tits at once if it is made from a five-liter canister for bottled water. This is no longer just a bird canteen, it is a real restaurant for birds. It will be even more interesting to watch the birds that come here to feed in winter. In Fig. 4 shows options for such a product:

• You can hang the canister vertically by cutting feed windows with canopies on all sides;
• Or you can fix a five-liter bottle horizontally, cutting out a bird pavilion with a roof from it;
• Or simply cut off the top of the bottle and make a windproof feeding tunnel in a horizontal position.

However, you may have your own original ideas for execution. But from an ordinary PET bottle you can make not only a bird’s canteen. You can make an excellent birdhouse from a plastic bottle if you use an opaque container (see Fig. 5). In winter it can also be used as a feeder.

And in the spring, it is likely to have serious guests. The main thing is to have time to hang the birdhouse from a plastic bottle higher before the arrival of the starlings.

What should you treat your visitors to?

In winter, birds are not picky. They will happily eat any cereals and seeds, grains of oats and wheat, bread crumbs, dry millet and millet. You should not use wet food - in the cold they quickly freeze and become inaccessible. But bulk food is optimal for winter feeding of bullfinches and tits if you decide to make a bunker-type feeder for small birds. Pieces of lard can be used, but they are usually hung on a string or placed on tree branches.

Make several birdhouses for birds and be sure to tell your children how important it is! It will also be interesting for novice naturalists to watch tits and other forest birds flying to the feeder. Do the kids know all of them or do they still need to tell them about someone? It is quite possible that not every visitor will be familiar to you. The more interesting and educational your trips to the bird feeder with your child will be. The main thing is, do not forget to regularly replenish food supplies, since you have taken up this task. The birds will get used to it and will wait for you every day. And in the summer they will certainly thank you for your care with loud trills in different ways. In parks and squares, by the river and on forest paths. Good luck!

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A very easy feeder is made step by step from a large 5 liter plastic bottle or canister and twine. The craft will not take much time, and it will be useful not only for sparrows and tits - you will be surprised how many different birds, sometimes completely unfamiliar to us, will flock to the treat.

In the process of making bird feeders, you can use absolutely any materials. This can be wood, cardboard, foam and plywood. But the easiest way to make a bird feeder is from a plastic bottle. Even children can be entrusted with making such a simple but original design. They will cope with this task without any doubt.

In the process of making bird feeders, you can use absolutely any materials.

The process of creating a feeder is not at all complicated and quick. This requires the bare minimum of materials and time. The design takes on a very unusual look and will look ideal both on a personal plot and in a school yard. It can be made from either a liter or larger bottle.

What is necessary:

• plastic bottle;
• brush;
• acrylic paints;
• scissors;
• strong rope or wire.

Progress:

1. Cut a hole of the required size approximately in the center of the bottle.
2. Use paints to paint your future feeder, coming up with your own patterns and combining colors.
3. Leave the product for a while to allow the paints to dry.

Fix a wire or rope in the upper part, with which the structure will be attached to the tree.

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Bird feeder made from a 5 liter plastic bottle

It would seem that what could be more primitive than an ordinary five-liter plastic bottle, but you can also create a real masterpiece from it. The finished product looks so perfect and original that you can’t immediately guess what it was actually made of.

What is necessary:

• 5 liter bottle;
• white facade paint;
• stationery leather;
• twine;
• felt-tip pen;
• brown spray paint;
• varnish (colorless);
• sponge;
• gouache paints;
• hot glue;
• fir branches;
• beads.

It would seem that what could be more primitive than an ordinary five-liter plastic bottle, but you can also create a real masterpiece from it

Progress:

1. Using a felt-tip pen, mark future arched holes on several sides of the eggplant.
2. Carefully cut out these holes along the contour.
3. Using a sponge, apply white paint to the outside of the workpiece and wait until it dries.
4. Apply a second coat of paint and wait about an hour.
5. From the pieces of plastic remaining from the eggplant, cut out parts similar to tiles and paint them first with white paint, and then tint them with brown.
6. Glue the bottom row of tiles to the top of the workpiece.
7. Place the next pieces exactly above the joints of the ones preceding them.
8. Use twine to decorate the lid and handle.
9. Glue string in a circle at the bottom of the structure.
10. Use spray paint to give the top a more polished look.
11. Shade the edges with white paint.

Additionally, decorate the feeder with spruce branches and beads, and then coat everything with varnish.

Beautiful bird feeder

To make such a feeder, you will need several bottles of different sizes at once. And the process of its manufacture is not so simple. But the result is a truly beautiful, unusual design that can become the main decoration of any summer cottage.

What is necessary:

• 1.5 and 2 liter bottles;
• soldering iron;
• scissors;
• paints (aerosol);
• hot glue;
• wire;
• glue "Moment";
• furniture stapler.

What to do:

1. Cut the bottoms from three two-liter eggplants and burn their edges with a soldering iron so that they become curly.
2. Make small holes in the center of each part, and then assemble all the elements onto the wire.
3. Cut off the top of a 1.5 liter container and use it as the very top element of the structure.
4. Connect all these parts with wire and secure in several places with hot glue.
5. Cover the entire structure with paint.
6. Blend white paint along the edges.
7. Cut a small hole in the bottom of a 1.5 liter container and also singe it with a soldering iron.
8. Paint this part with spray paint, and shade white around the perimeter of the hole.
9. Connect all elements with a stapler.

Cut thin strips from green plastic and glue them with Moment glue, creating a semblance of grass.

Feeder with stands: step-by-step instructions

Just a few simple details make this design special and as bird-friendly as possible. They don't have to fly into the feeder at all, thanks to the stands made of wooden spoons.

What is necessary:

• eggplant of any size;
• wire;
• ruler;
• scissors or stationery knife;
• a pair of wooden spoons.

Just a few simple details make this design special and as bird-friendly as possible.

Progress:

1. Using a ruler, measure fifteen centimeters from the bottom of the eggplant and at this height make a through hole into which the spoon will be installed.
2. A little higher, but at a different angle, make another similar hole for another spoon.
3. Insert spoons into prepared holes.
4. On the wide side of the spoon, make the hole a little wider so that the grains spill out and it is convenient for the birds to peck them.

Tie the neck with wire and immediately secure it to a tree branch.

Ice bird feeder

To make this feeder you will also need an eggplant, but in the end result it will not be needed. At sub-zero temperatures, such a design will be a godsend for feathered friends. For the warm season you will need a more reliable product.

What is necessary:

• five-liter eggplant;
• liter bottle;
• branches of coniferous trees;
• seeds and berries;
• water.

At sub-zero temperatures, such a design will be a godsend for feathered friends.

Progress:

1. Cut the bottom off the eggplants.
2. Pour water into the larger diameter bottom, lay out twigs, seeds and berries.
3. Place a smaller bottom in the center of the future feeder so that the product ultimately takes the shape of a ring.
4. Place a weight in a smaller container so that it does not float.
5. Also place the ends of the rope into the water, which will be used for subsequent fixation of the structure.

Place the workpiece in the freezer for at least twelve hours, then remove the plastic parts.

Bird feeder house

To create an incredibly beautiful house that acts as a feeder, you will need the simplest and most affordable materials. With their help, it is possible to create an unusual and colorful decoration for a personal plot.

What is necessary:

• 5 liter eggplant;
• wooden stick;
• gray fabric;
• scissors;
• glue;
• whitewash brush;
• figurines for decoration.

Progress:

1. Cut a hole on one of the walls of the container.
2. Just below this hole, make another one, but this one will be through and smaller in diameter.
3. Stretch a stick through the through hole so that the birds have something to sit on.
4. Cover the entire eggplant with fabric, leaving the hole open.
5. Fix the brush on top, thereby forming the roof of the house.

Additionally decorate the structure with figures.

Do-it-yourself bunker bird feeder in 10 minutes (video)

You can make incredibly beautiful bird feeders from the most ordinary plastic bottle. This material is accessible and easy to work with, which is why it began to be used so widely as decoration for summer cottages. A little imagination and a minimum of costs are necessary for a new and unusual feeder to appear in the yard.

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