Useful extras
August 14, 2009
Make it for the birds
Challenge Yourself for: 24 Hours
Bird feeders are a glorious way to connect with our feathered friends in your garden – or just outside your city window. Assuming you’re accepting of birds’ natural habits – they like to eat garden fruit, can be messy, and tempt cats – a homemade feeder is a crafty way to spend an afternoon – and will provide many hours of viewing pleasure. Today, challenge yourself to pin down a site and a feeder that suits your home, whether it’s on a post, tree hook, line, or the ground. If possible, use recycled materials only to construct your feeder.
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We created a bird sanctuary in our back yard. There are several feeders of different heights for different types of birds. The mice have also enjoyed it. We have a great picture of a mouse peeking up over the feeder and a baby bird on the feeder. They are just staring at each other. (Hey, as long as they stay out of my house!)
I do something similar by spreading peanut butter on an apple and hanging that in a tree or attaching it to my bird feeder or squirrel feeder, during the winter months.
The woodpeckers here love the peanut butter pine cone feeders.
I was a Girl Scout MANY years ago, and now my daughter is.
Many things that were fun, are now the “green” way to be.
Where I live in Mukilteo the Bird feeders attracts Raccoons that climb the trees rip open the feeders or hang upside down do what ever it takes to eat it all I use dark sunflower seeds, high oil content, and suet or in my Cub Scouts Troop I have have the boys make feeder by speading peanut butter on a pine cone and then rolling them in bird seed, hang them on trees, the birds get lots of high protein and on the higher outer branches the raccoon have no chance of getting them… Good Luck and Have Fun!!!!