Winter is coming and our birds will need to survive it. Let's take care of them! Consider several options for how to make a feeder with your own hands.

1. The feeder should be with a roof, as rain can wet the food or cover it with snow.
2. The opening of the feeder should be wide - the birds are afraid of closed spaces.
3. Choose a practical moisture-resistant material for making the feeder.
4. The feeder should not be too light, as it is swayed by the wind and the food may crumble. If it's too light, make it heavier. This can be done with a piece of plywood or linoleum. Put it on the bottom of the feeder strictly according to size.

Wooden feeder

You will need: hacksaw, hammer, nails, plywood, bars 2:2 cm, thin wooden board.

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Blueprints

Drawing No. 1

Drawing No. 2

Drawing No. 3

We present to your attention several options for making wooden bird feeders. You can create an ordinary dining room feeder, a small castle or just a birdhouse. And if you are a jack of all trades, then the feeder can be decorated with wood carvings, creating beautiful patterns.

Grain feeders

You will need: food (raw), egg, oatmeal, flour, honey, gelatin, thick cardboard, scissors, thick thread, pencil, needle, molds.

Recipe #1

1. Draw any figure on the cardboard. It can be a heart, a circle, a triangle, a square ...
2. Cut out with scissors.
3. Pass the thread through the needle, and make a hole in the cardboard figure, creating a fastener.
4. Prepare the glue. To do this, mix: 2 tablespoons of oatmeal, an egg, 1 teaspoon of honey and a little flour.
5. Leave the mixture for 30 minutes.
6. Apply glue to the cardboard base.
7. Mix the grain mixture with the glue mass.
8. Apply the mixture to the cardboard base.
9. Place the grain feeders in the refrigerator for several hours.

Recipe #2

1. Dissolve gelatin in warm water.
2. Pour food into it.
3. Divide the mass into molds.
4. Insert threads for fastening.
5. Send to the refrigerator for several hours.
6. Hang treats on tree branches.

Candy box feeder

You will need: 2 candy boxes, glue, 2 laces.

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1. Spread the edges of the box with glue.
2. Insert the edge of the box into another box in such a way that you get a triangle.
3. Glue the base of the box to the triangle.
4. Let dry 10 minutes.
5. Thread the string through the top of the box.
6. Tie a knot.
7. Tie a feeder to a tree branch with a second string.

Juice box feeder

You will need: box of juice or milk, scissors, string.

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plastic feeder

You will need: plastic bottle with a capacity of 5-6 liters, scissors, wire.

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1. Take the bottle and scissors.
2. Step back 3 cm from the bottom of the bottle up and cut out a rectangular window.
3. Put a piece of plywood or linoleum strictly according to the size of the bottom of the bottle.
4. Take the wire, wrap the neck of the bottle.
5. Attach the feeder to a tree branch.

Birdseed

Making a feeder is great, but you need to know exactly what you can put in it.

Birds can be fed raw seeds, millet, oats, millet, buckwheat, crumbs of a stale white bun, small pieces of dried fruits, mountain ash, viburnum.

Birds can't be fed crumbs of fresh white and rye bread, cakes, cakes, chips, salted and roasted seeds, nuts and oatmeal.

Thanks to your care, the birds will survive in the winter. In turn, they will delight you with their songs in the spring. Birds are very important, as they are not only pleasing to the eye, but also perform a huge sanitary and health work!

Marina Suslova

« Feed the birds in winter

Let from all over

They will flock to you, like home,

Flocks on the porch."

Winter is a hard time for birds, especially if the winter is cold, harsh. It is necessary to help the birds in winter, to do for them feeders and don't forget to put in them feed.

feeders for birds can be made from various improvised materials: cartons, bottles, milk cartons, juice cartons, etc. I suggest making feeder- an owl from a milk carton.

Manufacturing feeders:

materials:

milk carton;

self-adhesive film of green and yellow colors;

lids for juice of different sizes.

Tools:

glue gun and glue stick.

We glue the milk carton with self-adhesive film on all sides.

Making eyes out of juice caps. First, we glue 2 large red lids to the box with a glue gun, then glue 2 smaller lids inside, after sticking a yellow self-adhesive on them.

Glue white circles onto the yellow self-adhesive with glue-pencil. Got eyes.

Under the eyes we glue a beak from a yellow self-adhesive.

Cut out large holes on three sides

Using scissors, we make a hole on both sides of the roof and thread the cord.

feeder ready for feathered friends!

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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, from plastic bottles, from cans, from a wooden block 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!

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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 easiest plastic bottle feeder
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 good fellow will sit on the edge of a bottle or a perch, take the seeds, peck and throw the husk back into the seeds or nearby. 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 pipe"

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 salted fat, fried seeds, smoked meats, 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

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

It is always interesting for everyone to watch how birds arrive to eat in the feeder, this process is especially of great interest to children. But for everyone, this is just an interest, and for the birds themselves, this is a necessary way to survive, especially if there is such a season as winter and there are very few or simply no worms and other living creatures at all. So let's help the birds survive in the cold season.

To do this, we just need a juice box, which is not so difficult to "get". Moreover, such the feeder will not take up much space on your balcony and it can be done at home with your child. Such a small bird feeder from a juice box will be able to protect bird food from adverse weather conditions, and therefore will be relevant in winter and summer. Let's have some juice soon and see how to make a bird feeder that will thank you!

Where to start creating a feeder?

How to make our feeder out of the box? Easily! But before you start making it, the juice packaging must be thoroughly washed to prevent odor. After thoroughly washing the juice pack, make an indent from the bottom of a 2-3 centimeter to get a threshold that will prevent the seeds from falling out of the feeder in the wind. After you have done this, take a ruler and draw a horizontal line, which will be the future threshold, its width should be 6-7 centimeters. You can do more, it all depends on your ideas and imagination. Well, the size of the juice box itself, of course.

However, there is no need to do less, it can make it difficult for the birds to access the food that will be in the feeder made from an empty juice container.

After you make a horizontal line on the future dining room for birds, take 2 vertical lines, which will be the side walls of the doorway, their height should be at least 8-9 centimeters. You can make a hole in the future doorway:

• square;
• oval;
• in the shape of a pentagon, which looks like a house with a hanging roof.

In the end, it all depends on your imagination and the size of your juice box.

The basic process of creating a dining room for birds

When you decide on the shape of your doorway and make a markup on the juice box, take a utility knife, scissors or any other cutting tool and cut out the doorway. Use tools that will cut straight through the cardboard, not "saw" it, so that the edges of the cardboard are as even and tear-free as possible to minimize wetness and swelling of your future feeder, which you will make from a pack of juice.

After you cut it out, in your future feeder you can, if desired, tape the sharp edges of the doorway or any other sticky tape. But this is not a necessary operation, it will just make the edges of the doorway not so sharp and strengthen the cardboard from the effects of adverse weather. In order to make it convenient for the birds to sit down and eat food from your feeder, you can glue a perch at a short distance from the nut, which can be from anything:

• a branch from a tree;
• regular pencil;
• ballpoint pen case.

A variety of materials can fit this part.

After all this, you need to decide on the fastening of your "point for distributing bird food". For this find the center on the top of the juice box and make a small hole in it. To make it easy to find the center, simply draw two diagonal lines from corner to corner with a pencil and a ruler. If you make a hole in the front or back, or anywhere else on the box, the box will hang unevenly and cause some of the food to fall out in the wind.

Once you find the center point at the top of the box, take some length of string or wire you need and make a thick knot at one end, or bend the wire and thread the other end through the hole you made at the top of the box so the feeder can be hung from a branch tree or on your air conditioner or satellite dish hanging outside your window. After all, it could just be a nail driven into the wall on your balcony. The main thing is that predatory animals cannot get to the bird feeder, therefore hang it at a sufficient distance from the floor or the ground!

When you do all this with the future feeder, you can start decorating it, especially if you are doing it with children, then this process should bring them a lot of pleasure. Also, your feeder will look good! To decorate your bird feeder, use films, colored fabrics, buttons, and so on. Do not use watercolors, felt-tip pens and other colored items that will begin to spread from moisture. They simply from adverse weather conditions will fall into the food for birds. Remember that you want to help the birds, and not vice versa, harm them! It is best to use bright and saturated colors, because birds pay more attention to bright colored things than to ordinary ones.

Follow the feeder. It's fun!

Although now you have learned all the details of how to make a feeder out of the box, it’s far from worth quitting on this. You have more interesting things to come.

After you've finished decorating your juice box feeder, fill it with food. Food can be absolutely anything, for example, bread crumbs, cereals, apple slices, seeds, nuts. After filling the feeder with food, you can safely go and hang it in the garden, in the yard, on a nail driven into the wall on your balcony or on the air conditioner hanging outside your window. All in all, hang anywhere, but remember that predatory animals should not get to your feeder from under the juice package!

After a while you will see how the birds will start showing their interest in your feeder, which you made from nothing more than an ordinary empty juice box, which was not so expensive compared to how many birds thanks to this feeder can survive in the winter when there are no insects or worms outside.

Keep an eye on your feeder, remove bird feathers, droppings and old food from it in a timely manner to prevent the spread of diseases between birds. Pour new bird food into your bird feeder so they will come back to it again and again and it will give you and your children a lot of fun!

Pay attention to those birds that come to eat from your "charity canteen", remember their feather coloring, any other signs, and, perhaps, over time, you will begin to distinguish between those birds that flew to you for the first time from those that eat from your feeders every day.

Wild animals and birds that live in nature cannot count on the fact that in winter someone will help them in the same way as their domesticated "brothers". However, many people understand this and try to provide all possible assistance during the winter cold.

Benefits for you and the birds

Caring people are well aware of how difficult this time is for our smaller brothers, since starting from late autumn, it is becoming increasingly difficult for many of them to find food. Of course, with all the desire, it is not so easy to help those of them who live in the forest or in a remote area. However, if you live in a city, town or village, then everything is in your power. Today we will talk about bird feeders. It is quite possible to make them, and we are talking about using improvised means, old packaging and containers, as well as other materials that, in any case, would most likely be thrown into a landfill.

By the way, having “trained” the birds in your feeder located on the site, in addition to the feeling that you are helping them, saving them from hunger in the difficult season, you get some kind of additional “bonuses”:

• Birds will get used to your site and will begin to live on it and next to it more often. Thus, they will constantly delight you with their games, fuss and chirping, filling the surrounding space with vital energy.
• Quite often it happens that in the summer the birds return a kind of debt to you, destroying the numerous insects and pests that live in almost every garden or vegetable garden.

Wood is a reliable material!

In today's article, we have provided photos of many options that will help with ideas on how to make a bird feeder with your own hands. As a rule, in order to implement the project of such a feeder, you do not need complex projects and drawings.

Attention! You can feed birds not only in winter, but also in summer, especially if you live in a country house or in a private house.

Before considering the basic ideas for making feeders, let's talk about some of the features of the choice of material, as well as about the places where you can hang or attach such a homemade structure.

Choice of material and installation location

Before choosing a place for a feeder, it will be very useful to learn the most common types of birds that live in our latitudes.

1. Nuthatch; 2. pika; 3. small spotted woodpecker; 4. crossbill; 5. jay; 6. nutcracker or walnut; 7. bullfinch; 8. waxwing; 9. common grosbeak; 10. goldfinch; 11. siskin; 12. common oatmeal; 13. greenfinch; 14. great tit; 15. titmouse; 16. crested tit; 17. Muscovite tit; 18. long-tailed tit; 19. titmouse.

Traditionally, it is considered that the bird feeder should be in the form of a kind of house, which would be somewhat similar to a birdhouse. And in fact, such a configuration is optimal in order to organize a place for feeding birds there. Consider the advantages of this form:

• The roof allows you to create protection from rain and snow.
• Such a construction, made of plywood or wood, is strong, durable and reliable.
• It will not look alien, since we are talking about landscape design and the external attractiveness of the entire site.

However, you should not be limited only to this form, as well as the fact that only wood can be used as a material. In fact, both the configuration and the material can be completely different.

The main thing is that the feeder meets the basic requirements:

1. The material from which the feeder is made must be stable and not deform over time. In other words, a birdhouse made of cardboard or similar improvised means is not good. It simply will not withstand difficult weather conditions: rain, sleet, etc.
2. At the same time, you can, in extreme cases, make a small feeder from a container of juice or dairy products (kefir, milk, etc.). Tetra pak and similar carton packages are much more resistant to moisture than ordinary carton. However, such structures cannot be classified as durable. On the other hand, they are quite suitable as a temporary solution, which, under favorable circumstances, can serve you for a whole season. At the same time, it is necessary to understand that the feeder from the milk bag will fit only for small birds, since large ones simply will not fit in it.
3. By the way, the following conclusion follows from the previous paragraph: the material must be durable and stable, since it must withstand not only the autumn-winter bad weather, but also the weight of the birds themselves, some of which are quite massive. In addition, keep in mind that wear and tear will also occur due to the constant impact of their claws, since they will usually sit down in a carved opening (“window”).
4. By the way, since we are talking about a window, an entrance (this technological hole can be called, in fact, whatever you like), then you need to understand that its edges should not be sharp, because, otherwise, birds can injure their paws about them.

Location

In addition to the material, as well as manufacturing technology, you need to understand that the place where you install or hang the bird feeder is also an important point. So, if possible, it is necessary to avoid installation in places where birds will have difficulty accessing. We are talking about thick branches and other similar places.

In addition, pay attention to the fact that the feeder is located in a place that is hard to reach for cats, which, as you know, are excellent hunters, living in large numbers in villages, cottages, as well as in cottages and private housing estates.

Advice! Place the feeder in an open space, in places that are easily visible to birds.

Popular Ideas

Let's look at the main ideas of how best to make a bird feeder with your own hands, looking at "live" examples of how many people have implemented their projects. There can be many feeders, and the options for their manufacture are countless. However, they are all made for the same purpose. So, here are the main types of structures of this kind.

The dispenser is a very useful device for feeding birds. In addition, the bottle can be hung vertically "upside down"

Wooden house

To make such a design is quite realistic and independently. There is no need to have any specific skills or knowledge. As a rule, improvised or unnecessary boards, pieces of logs and many other wooden elements are used in such work. Taking boards or veneer as a basis, the main task is their strong connection.

By the way, wooden bird feeders can be used not only for feeding yard birds. Similar designs are also used in chicken coops, when feeding chickens and other poultry. However, this is, as they say, a completely different story.

Plywood feeder

Such a design can be made with your own hands right at home. To do this, you do not need any special tools or conditions. In this case, of course, you will have to find drawings of feeders. On the other hand, you can make a drawing with dimensions yourself, since there is nothing particularly difficult in its development. For more ideas, we recommend that you familiarize yourself with the photos and examples of finished work.

Bunker feeder

This type of construction, so to speak, "migrated" from agriculture. One of its main advantages is that it allows you to exclude the "discrimination" of some bird species by others. You yourself probably noticed that often a flock of birds alone, for example, sparrows or tits, takes an advantageous position in the immediate vicinity of the food (seeds, bread crumbs, grains, cereals, loaves, etc.) or even in the feeder itself and tends to prevent other birds from reaching such a valuable resource.

Therefore, it becomes an important task to limit the area on which feathered friends can feed. Therefore, in such cases, homemade bunker feeders, also known as anti-sparrow feeders, can come in handy.

Plastic bottle feeders

A canister feeder is also a great option.

This type of design is extremely simple, so everyone, including children, can make it on their own. In order to make it, you only need to cut one or two holes in the bottle in order to pour bird food inside, and in fact, so that the birds have the opportunity to get inside. Of course, you need to be careful, because the holes should be, if possible, as even and symmetrical as possible.

Interesting! If you have time and desire, you can additionally decorate the feeder with natural materials, or apply inscriptions.

Let's take a closer look at the features of the work in the presence of bottles of different sizes. The fact is that the most common source materials in such cases are:

So, if you use the first option, then you can choose between two types of structures. In the first case, it is about making holes in both sides of the bottle. They can have different shapes: round, rectangular or square.

In the second case, you can make a special visor that would cover the hole, protecting it from snow. In order to make it, you just need to cut a U-shaped hole, leaving one side (upper). After that, this section of the bottle is bent up, thus forming a kind of visor. By the way, this can also be done on both sides.

For more convenience for the birds, you can make two small holes under the main openings and insert a long stick into them, on which they can perch before getting inside. As for the lower edge of the main holes, for greater security, it is advisable to glue it with tape or tape in several layers. Also suitable and fabric adhesive tape. Thus, a do-it-yourself feeder is made from plastic containers of a relatively small volume.

Even easier, you can make a feeder from a 5-liter bottle. The fact is that the walls are often straight, which allows you to cut a more even hole. Plus, more seeds and crumbled loaf are placed in such a container, and it is more convenient for birds to fly inside. For crafting, you will need a knife or strong scissors.

If the plastic bottle is mounted horizontally, then holes can be cut in place of the bottom and neck. If you plan to fix it vertically, then you can cut 2, 3 or even 4 holes from different sides if you are working with a bottle that has a square or rectangular section. This, by the way, will allow several birds to fly in and feed at once. For round bottles, 2-3 holes can be cut. By the way, on the basis of a large bottle with a volume of 5 liters and above, you can also make a bunker feeder.

On a note! It is advisable to cut the holes at a height of at least 5 centimeters from the bottom, maybe a little more.

Attaching such a feeder is quite simple: you can tie it either by the neck or by the handle, which is an integral part of the lid, using twine or thin wire. This is if we talk about vertical options. With horizontal fixation, it is best to make 2 parallel small holes (they can be made with a knife or other sharp object), passing through them the wire or rope that is needed for fastening.

In any case, this option is very affordable, since almost everyone has at their disposal unnecessary 5-liter water bottles. Sample photos show various options for how this can be done.

Bird feeder from a milk or juice bag

5 minutes - and a new feeder from a juice bag - ready

Everyone has boxes of juice or milk. We usually throw them away. The manufacturing technology is extremely simple, and in some way resembles the previous one (with plastic bottles). So, if you want to make a bird feeder from a juice or milk bag, the sequence of your actions may be as follows:

• We outline future holes using a pen, marker or felt-tip pen.
• Carefully cut them out using scissors or a sharp knife.
• We glue the underside of the opening with tape or adhesive tape.
• We make small holes for the rope or wire at the top of the package.
• We hang the resulting feeder from a tree branch, lilac or other places.

The easiest and fastest option from a milk bag

By the way, in some cases you can put a weight on the bottom or attach to it in the form of a brick fragment or something similar. This will minimize swaying in case of strong winds. This applies not only to paper boxes, but also to plastic bottles.

Remember! In some cases, you can attach the feeder to the wall.

Using a shoebox

By the way, a bird feeder from a shoe box is made in the same way. Of course, the fact that it is made of cardboard does not allow making such a feeder durable. On the other hand, some of the boxes are made of fairly durable and moisture-resistant cardboard. Moreover, you can additionally cover the cardboard with tape, which will further increase its protection from the effects of bad weather conditions. This will increase the life of the feeder to some extent, although, in any case, it will not be as durable as its counterparts made of wood, cardboard and even plastic.

The manufacturing technology itself is extremely simple and does not require any special instructions. You just need to make the necessary cuts on the sides of the box and also fix the lid. This can also be done with tape.

Other options

Of course, all these types of feeders are the most common and popular. However, it makes sense to talk about alternative options. The first of these is a feeder made from tableware.

By the way! You can also make a drinker out of dishes, which is also very important for birds.

Such original products are made from a cup and saucer. If you add a deep plate, you can make both a feeder and a drinker at the same time. Some craftsmen make feeders from old buckets, usually plastic ones. They turn out to be large, which somewhat limits the possibilities for their installation, which, of course, is a certain disadvantage. The advantage is the same: the size of such a product is quite large. This allows you to pour more feed. In addition, several birds can feed at the same time. We must not forget about the strength of such a design.