Recycling is For the Birds!

[Friends just call me Ross]

How to make a nifty bird feeder out of a recycled coffee can:

 

Components: 

empty coffee can

two plastic lids

a wooden dowel or small tree branch

a piece of nylon cord

 

Start with an empty coffee can:

 

Remove label and bottom of can:

 

Find the second lid

 

Cut half moons in the two lids, run the nylon cord through the can and tie it, hiding the knot in the can

 

Place the lids on the ends of the can with the nylon cord on top, align the half moons and make little slits

in the plastic lids to run your dowel or small tree branch through

 

Shove the dowel/branch through the slits (takes some shoving, but you want the perch to be attached really tight)

 

Should look like this

 

Put a knot in the cord, as close to can as possible, for stability (make sure knot is in the middle of the can, for balance)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Friends just call me Ross]

Hang your finished feeder from a tree, fill with your seed of choice and wait for some

appreciative visitors. 

 

I was going to show it hanging from a tree, but we're having a white-out snowstorm right now and I didn't want

to get my tablet wet. 

[pnutts]

You sure it is not a squirrel feeder?

[Friends just call me Ross]

 

I've had these things hanging in my yard for close to twenty years now

and don't recall ever having a problem with squirrels.

Perhaps because they're kept so busy with all my other feeders.

I distract them, the Blue Jays and the Starlings, with corn and rejected bread from a local bakery.

Works slick.   

[Friends just call me Ross]

These feeders get rusty if you don't paint them:

 

Lots of Evening Grosbeaks visiting:

 

 

[Tortuga]

Cool, a Quanset hut for birds...