Make use of a recycled glass bottle and invite birds into your garden with a homemade razzing feeder . We ’ll show you how to make one while adding your own elan .
Recycled-bottle Bird Feeder
After make fleeceable - roof birdhouses , Rebecca and Jeff Nickols of Strafford , Missouri , wanted to take on more environmentally - friendly bird projects . Rebecca ’s birdie feeder is made with a fairly gullible - shabu water bottle and toilsome copper wire . The conducting wire supports the bottle and adds a flourish . A small decoration can be bind to the copper wire , like a charm on a wristband . A feeder attachment designed for this purpose will turn a feeding bottle with a screw top into a chick self-feeder .
Step 1: Gather the Materials
Rebecca suggests using safflower seed or bleak - fossil oil sunflower seeds to fill your feeder . She says safflower is a ripe choice if you have a problem with squirrel , but helianthus ejaculate willattract the wide-eyed variety of boo .
Here ’s what you ’ll need :
About 3 feet of 6 - gauge cop wire
Vise grip pliers
Glass water supply bottle with a nooky top
Spool of 20 - gauge cop wire
Ornament
jewellery plyer
Soda - bottle birdfeeder attachment
Birdseed
Step 2: Grab the Wire
Grab the ending of the 6 - gauge copper conducting wire with the vise grip , protect the pig with a piece of cloth , and make a tight curl .
Step 3: Hold in Place
confine the curled ending near the neck of the bottle .
Step 4: Wind the Wire
Wind the wire around the bottle two or three times . The wire supports the bottle , but it does not require to be close-fitting .
Step 6: Make a Curl
Turn it 90 degrees and make a heavy curl , retain the conducting wire with the vise clutches . The feeder will hang from this twist of conducting wire .
Step 7: Attach Your Ornament
reduce a length of sparse copper color conducting wire , tie the ornament , and pervert the wire onto the larger copper wire around the bottle .
Step 8: Make Tiny Curls
With the jewelry pliers , put a well-favored minuscule curl on each destruction of this lighter telegram .
Step 9: Fill and Hang
Fill the bottle with bird food and screw on the soda - feeding bottle affluent attachment . Hang your bird feeder from a branch or a shepherd ’s crook .
