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✓ FEEDER FOR BIRDS OWN HANDS - STEP-BY-STEP
✓ HOW TO SPIT THE FEEDER FOR BIRDS IN YOUR HANDS - PHOTO
✓ OWN FEEDERS - TIPS AND IDEAS, VARIOUS DESIGNS

SPIRIT FEEDER WITH HANDS

During carpentry, harvesting firewood for the winter, or working in the garden to clean and clean the area from unnecessary plantings, small saw cuts of various shapes and sizes often remain. With a good host, everything goes into business, not in the oven, of course, although sometimes you can also melt a bathhouse with the remains of garbage. But we will use them for other purposes. We knit bird feeders for the winter!

There are not many feeders. On my site, for example, eight different feeding troughs hang, and in winter all the birds living nearby are fed with us. Jays and tits, bullfinches and magpies, sparrows and woodpeckers fly to taste our treats. The most important thing is not to forget to pour fresh food so that birds accustomed to constant bait do not freeze due to hunger at an empty feeder. We must always remember the words of Antoine de Saint-Exupery that "we are responsible for those whom we tamed ...".

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MATERIALS:

1. Cut wood (any shape and size will do).

2. Rod for racks - 15-20 pcs. 1200 mm long.

3. Rod to cover the feeder - 100 pcs. short rods 600 mm long.

INSTRUMENTS:

drill, drill number 6, pruning shears, cutting knife, awl, round-nose pliers.

FEEDER FOR BIRDS OWN HANDS - STEP-BY-STEP

Photo 1. The edges of a saw of any shape are processed on a grinding machine, so that during operation not to get splinter. Then with a drill No. 6 we make holes around the perimeter, departing from the edge of 10-15 mm. The weave will be circular, it is more convenient for him to have an odd number of holes.

Photo 2. We insert the top of the rod for racks into the holes made until the butt is stuck, but at the same time leave 120-150 mm of the butt part outside.

Photo 3. Turn the product over and clamp the tops between the knees, so it will be more convenient to work.

Photo 4. We take the first comel and start it for the second in the front and for the third in the back. And so we do with all the little ones that stick out from the back of the saw.

Photo 5. To get the last comel, you need to raise the first with an awl and tuck the last under it.

Photo 6. We put our blank on the table and continue weaving. It is necessary to make a small side so that seeds and food do not spill out of the feeder in strong winds. We take three rods of 1200 mm and weave a rope already known to us into three rods. We put the first rod behind one of the racks and braid two racks in front, one in the back. We put the second rod under the first for the second rack and weave two in front, one in the back. We put the third rod under two (first and second) behind the third rack and also braid the racks (two in front, one in the back). We continue to weave with the left twig (two in front, one in the back), braiding so two or three circles. If necessary, we extend the rod and on the last circle we hide the tops of the rods in weaving.

Photo 7. Then we braid all the racks by simple weaving in one rod (one in the front, one in the back), leaving a window at the place chosen in advance for entering the feeding trough. At the racks extreme to the window, we turn the rod 180 ° and continue weaving.

Photo 8. Through 7-8 rows weave all the racks in a circle. For convenience, you need to tie the tops of the racks. From this point, weaving begins to take a conical shape. As you approach the top of the feeder racks in the gaps combine.

Photo 9. At the end of weaving, the racks come together. They are tied with a rope, wire or rod.

Such feeders weave very easily - even a primary school student will cope with this. Therefore, in the autumn holidays, you can arrange a master class with the children, and then hang the items in the yard to the delight of yourself and garden birds.

HOW TO SPIT THE FEEDER FOR BIRDS IN YOUR HANDS - PHOTO

NOTE: FEEDER SHOULD NOT BE EMPTY

I noticed that in late autumn titmouses fly to the place where the feeder hung last year. But if the summer resident, having taught the birds to eat in one place in the fall, then does not appear on the site all winter, the inhabitants of the garden in the frost may not have enough strength to search for other food. Therefore, if it is not possible to periodically feed the birds, it is better not to start doing this at all.

At our dacha, where we try to visit regularly, we feed the birds like this.

Unsalted bacon.

First, the pieces were hung on a string from tree branches. But they quickly became the prey of the magpies, which cut the rope with their strong beak. Then they began to tie fat to the trunk or large branches. In this case, cats have already eaten it.

As a result, they came up with the idea of using nets in which vegetables are sold. Having cut out a suitable piece of bacon, they folded it into a net, which was tied in a knot, and hung in the crown on thin branches. The titmouses really liked it.

The main thing is to hang such "feeding troughs" better on the shady side (in the sun the fat quickly becomes rancid).

Grain mixture.

We buy it on the market and pour it into five-liter bottles with holes cut opposite each other (if one hole, the feeder will turn into a trap). Pour food inside the container.

We pass a perch through the bottle, on which the birds can sit. Tie pine branches with soft wire from above to the container. Birds really like these feeders.

OWN FEEDERS - TIPS AND IDEAS, VARIOUS DESIGNS

OWN GARDEN FEEDER

Last winter I decided to make a bird feeder. I ran into a problem - a small one fits a little feed and I have to periodically fill it up. If you make a large house, then there is no guarantee that the birds will peck the food completely, they can scatter some of it or it will be covered with snow. As a result, I assembled an automatic version with replaceable cartridges, I think it will be perfect for summer residents who, like me, visit their estates on weekends.

It took: a board with a cross section of 12 × 2 cm, 1 m long, a piece of hardboard wood screws, small carnations, plastic bottles - one with a volume of 2 liters and several with a volume of 1 liter (for cartridges).

I cut off a workpiece with a length of about 40 cm from the board. I stepped back 5 cm from one end and drilled a hole in the middle with a feather drill d 25 mm. I cut a groove in the center of the other end (photo 1). This is the foundation.

I made a shelf from the same board. Cut the workpiece to a suitable length. I drilled three holes d 25 mm in it, as shown in photo 2. Then I cut out the wood between them with a jigsaw (photo 3) - I got a feed tray. From the bottom to the shelf I nailed a hardboard strip with small nails. The finished shelf was screwed to the base with self-tapping screws (photo 4)

In a plastic bottle with a volume of 2 liters, I cut out a part just above the middle, this is a cartridge holder, a liter bottle freely fits into it, but at the same time it keeps in the area of narrowing (photo 5).

The holder was fixed on the base with screws so that the cartridge installed in it did not reach the tray by about 1,5-2 cm.

I hung the feeder on the wall of the shed and loaded a cartridge with feed into it, additionally prepared a few more so that, jumping into the dacha, quickly change containers as needed.

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2 Comments

Vera Nikolaeva, Volzhsk, Mari El
2023-01-14 (17:38) #

In winter, we come to the site every two weeks - to visit the house and pick vegetables. And also add seeds to the birds in the feeders. Most often, tits fly to us. Or rather, they do not fly, but live. And our treat will be eaten, and the twigs will be checked - all unnecessary winter residents will be pulled out. And some don't even leave us for the summer.
Our feeders are very simple. In one and a half liter plastic bottles, the husband cut out windows-holes at the bottom and screwed them onto plastic plates.
It turns out that the bottles are on a plate. It remains to pour the seeds there and screw the lid. The birds sit on the plate and peck at the food, and a new one is poured in its place.
Sometimes we tie pieces of unsalted fat to the branches. They tried to hang it on strings so that the crows would not get it, the note is very smart and always found a way to get to the fat. Therefore, we decided not to bother, let everyone get refreshed.

Gennady Sudnik, Osipovichi.
2021-12-10 (17:04) #

DIY sandwich feeder

On the Internet I saw a feeder made of wood saw cuts and a glass jar. This option seemed interesting to me, I decided to make a similar design with my grandson. We were satisfied with the result.
In a pile of firewood I picked up a block of a suitable diameter, a little larger than a glass jar. From the block I cut off two rounds 10 and 5 cm thick. The narrow saw cut will be the bottom, in it in the center I drilled several blind holes about 2 cm deep close to each other with a feather drill. The saw cut was cut thicker with a jigsaw so that a part that looked like a gable roof was obtained.
In each cut, I drilled four through holes at the same level, in which the granddaughter stretched the ropes. Then he filled the jar with food, set it between the bottom and the roof with the neck down. The finished feeder with a glass "core" was hung on a tree.