Just in case you needed another re-use for your old glass bottles, this simple DIY bird feeder is made using scrap wood, wire, a hook, the base of a plastic bottle, and an old glass sauce bottle.
Basically you create the wooden support, upend the closed bottle of seed and secure it to the backing, then secure the base tray. When the feeder is secure you can open the bottle and let the seed flow through. As the tray empties more seed should fill it so you don't have to refill every couple of days, just sit back and enjoy the birds.
You can check out the full how to here on esprit cabane.
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A million thanks for this idea. Not only do I feel bad filling the recycle bin with dozens of glass juice bottles, I also have a neighbor who threatened to call public health if we did not remove our bird feeder. This would be perfect for an out-of-sight display! :)
Nice idea. How easy would it be to fill it?
@Emmi I don't understand why the public health folks would care? I love birds, though.
@Ethicalcannibal they probably wouldn't care. It attracts pigeons so maybe they could make the case with that. Our neighbor hates animals, plus she had bought a brand new truck for her husband (who wakes up at 4 am to go hunting and tosses stuff in the back very loudly, waking us up on weekends) and they were worried the truck would *gasp* get bird poo on it.
So bird poo would be worse than the blood and guts of dead animals he brought home in the truck bed after hunting?
@ethicalcannibal
Pigeons are bad, but rats are worse -- pigeons can't gnaw into your house, poop in your walls, and die there.
Even if you think a rat can't get to the feeder, birds make a mess and scatter seed as they eat (who ever said that eating like a bird was dainty, anyway??), which would provide plenty of rat snacks.
On my third floor deck, I probably wouldn't worry about it too much, but my friend who used to live on the first floor did have a problem with rats living under her deck and getting into her walls. The crazy part is that it was because a rabbit had nested under there, and the rat probably lived off its poops. Gross!
So, sorry Emmi, but depending on your housing situation, your neighbors just may have a valid point.
@Rapunzel LOL yeah or the pesticides he sprayed on our lawn without permission. He was already fined $300 in a neighboring town for violating noise ordinances.
@Akay I understand what you're saying but it's humans who destroyed the habitat of predators and competitors of rats and pigeons, that's why they're so abundant in the first place. I've never heard of anyone getting deathly ill from pigeons but human pollution has not only made people severely ill but has also nearly destroyed the planet.
We only used our feeder in the winter anyway, which so far as I can tell only attracted a few pigeons at most. The most I ever saw was 2. Just had to take them down before the starlings showed themselves again. Anyway, back to the topic on hand: I will defineltly try this awesome feeder, and I will not take this one down no matter who she calls! :D
KUDDOS TO EMMI!