For people who love keeping birds as pets, knowing certain information about homemade bird feeders will be of great help. This can also pave way for your support to your local bird population principally when the cold and winter weathers are about to come. This is because every winter, the birds are having a hard time in searching for a food. Check around your house and next thing you know, you already found a material that can be useful for bird feeders. You will be able to make them on your own since it is very cheap and very easy to craft especially when the process is enjoyed by kids, and adults.
Homemade bird feeders are created from diverse matters and materials like food scraps to empty containers of Christmas trees. It is very easy that is why you need to know how to make a bird feeder.
There are not limits with the choices and your decisions. However, here are the following famous models of bird feeders that has been very popular among feathered friends.
These are the following materials that you are going to use for making a pine cone bird feeder – string, birdseed, suet, peanut butter and pine cone. With the use of your spoon or knife, you would want to splotch the butter and the suet on the pine cone. Completely coat the whole pine cone using the birdseed. Bind a string to the top of the pine cone and suspend it form a tree or ledge.
Bagel bird feeder is the one next in our list of famous feeders. The following materials will be used for the Bagel bird feeder – peanut butter, string, bird seed, and a bagel. Coat the bagel with the peanut butter through the use of a knife or a spoon. Roll in birdseed and bind the string to the bagel. Next, you may hang it on a tree or the ledge.
You will need to prepare an orange half or hollowed out grapefruit, string and birdseed in order to have a citrus feeder. Be sure that the half grapefruit and the orange have been hollowed out before doing the process. Fill the empty fruit with a the birdseed and poke a hole at the sides of the citrus fruit as you thread the string through it. On the place where the birds usually gather, hang the feeder on a tree or ledge.
