Birds and wild animals living in nature do not have to rely on anyone's help in winter time as their domesticated counterparts might do. But no matter what, there are many people in the world who understand this and do their best to help in any way they can.
Bird feeders, which can be easily made from almost any box - such as a shoe box or a cake box - will serve as a help for birds in a cold, hungry season. The main thing is not to forget to add food there - for example, unsalted, unroasted seeds.
Most people are well aware that during the cold season of winter, it is very difficult for our little brothers to find food for themselves starting in the fall. With all the desire of a person, it is impossible to help absolutely everyone. It is most difficult to help those animals that live in remote areas or in the forest. But if you live in a village, town or city, then helping the younger brothers will not be difficult for you.
In this article we will talk about the feeders, which will be made from the material at hand, which could end up in a landfill.
If you accustom the birds to your feeder, then you will receive additional peculiar bonuses:
- Getting used to your site, the birds will live on it more often. With this, they will constantly delight you with chirping, fuss and games, thereby filling the space around you with vital energy.
- AT summer period many birds thank their breadwinners. They do this by destroying pests and insects that are present in almost all gardens and orchards.
It should be remembered that you can feed the birds in the summer..
Choosing a place for installation and material
Before choosing a place to install a feeder, it will be useful to learn those types of birds that are most common in our area. These include: tit tit, long-tailed tit, Muscovite tit, crested tit, blue tit, big tit, greenfinch, common bunting, siskin, goldfinch, common grosbeak, waxwing, bullfinch, walnut or nutcracker, jay, crossbill, small spotted woodpecker, pika, nuthatch.
It is generally accepted that the feeder should be made in the form of a house resembling a birdhouse. This configuration, in fact, is optimal for organizing bird feeding.. The advantages of this form are:
- The roof protects from snow and rain;
- The configuration, made of wood or plywood, is reliable, durable and strong;
- On your site, it will not look alien.
But you should not be limited to one form and one material.. These two parameters can be very different.
The most important condition is compliance with the requirements:
- The material for the feeder should not deform over time and be resistant to natural factors. Simply put, it is not advisable to make a birdhouse out of cardboard, since it will not withstand wet weather.
- It is possible, in extreme cases, to build a feeder from packages from under dairy products (ryazhenka, milk, kefir and others) and juices. Tetrapack and similar cardboard packaging are more moisture resistant than ordinary cardboard. But this feeder can not be attributed to durable. But this is a favorable temporary solution that will last you a whole season, weather permitting. But you need to be aware that this will serve as an excellent dining room only for birds of small breeds. Large breeds of birds will not fit in them because of their size.
- The material must be selected stable and durable. This is due to the fact that it must withstand, in addition to climatic conditions, also the weight of the bird. In some breeds, it can be significant. It should be taken into account that the material will also wear out due to the claws of the feathered one, since they will sit in the cut-out window.
- The edges of the window should be devoid of sharp points. If they are there, then your bird may injure its paws.
Gallery: bird feeder made from improvised materials (25 photos)
Where should you place a house for birds
An important point is such a factor as the location of the dining room for birds. By avoid installation in locations where they are difficult to reach. For example, do not place feeders in dense branches and other similar places.
And you should also pay attention to the fact that cats could not approach this place. As you know, all over the world they are excellent hunters. Many of them start in the country, in the village, in the arrays of private construction and in cottages.
Experts advise to place a dining room for birds in places where it will be clearly visible.
Popular and most common ideas
Consider what are the most popular do-it-yourself feeder options. There are many such options. Each person has their own idea for designing a bird dining room. But despite this many options, the goal is to feed and help the birds in a difficult period.
wooden house
Such an idea can be realized without much difficulty on your own. It is not necessary to have special knowledge and skills. In such design and construction, mostly unnecessary or improvised boards, logs or their pieces and other wooden elements are used. The main task is to firmly connect the veneer or boards to each other.
Wooden feeders can also be used to feed chickens and other domesticated birds.
Plywood feeder
A similar type of plywood dining room can be effortlessly made at home with your own hands. For this you will not need special conditions or tools. But you will need to find drawings for construction. If you do not want to search, then it will not be difficult for you to draw a drawing according to the desired dimensions yourself. This is quite easy to do.
Bunker feeder
This type of people borrowed from Agriculture. Its main advantage is the exclusion of discrimination of any breed of birds. Surely every person noticed that if one breed of birds settled near the feed, then they try not to let another breed in.
It is for this reason that it is very important to limit the area where birds can feed. In such cases, self-made bunker feeders are used, which, in other words, are called anti-sparrow.
Feeders made from plastic bottles
Such a bird's dining room is considered the simplest and most common type. Even a child can make it. To make it, you just need to cut a couple of holes in the bottle (one is possible) in order to pour food inside and for birds to get there. During the manufacturing process, do not rush. Be as attentive as possible. Holes should be symmetrical and even.
The most common types of bottles are:
- Mineral water or drink bottles, the volume of which is 1.5–2 liters;
- Large bottles from under drinking water- more than 5 liters.
Let's consider in more detail each option proposed above. If you use a bottle in the manufacture, the volume of which is 1.5 or 2 liters, then you should make the same holes on both sides, which will have a square, rectangular or round shape.
With the option where a large bottle is used, you can make a visor. It will cover the hole, thereby protecting it from raindrops and snowflakes getting inside. To make it, cut out a U-shaped hole, and do not cut off the upper side. The cut out part of the bottle is bent up, thereby forming a visor. You can do the same on both sides of the bottle.
In order to make it more convenient for the birds, you can make two small holes under the main openings and insert a long stick into them, on which they will sit before entering the feeder. Regarding the lower edges: it is desirable, for greater safety, to paste over them with electrical tape or tape in several layers. You can use fabric adhesive plaster for gluing.
by the most simple option is the manufacture of a canteen for birds from a 5-liter bottle. To do this, you will need strong scissors or a knife.
With a horizontal arrangement of a plastic bottle, holes are cut in place of the neck and bottom. If you place it in a vertical position, then from 2 to 4 holes can be made from several sides. But this is only in the case of rectangular or square bottles. And as for the round one, you can cut 2 or 3 holes in them. By the way, a large bottle can serve as the basis for a bunker feeder. It should also be noted that it is best to place the holes at a height of more than 5 centimeters from the bottom.
Such a dining room is attached very easily: either by the handle, which is integral part lids, or by the neck. In this case, a thin wire or twine is used. But this is only for vertical options. When fastening horizontally, two small parallel holes are made with a sharp object and a rope or wire is threaded through them.
Poultry canteens from packages of juice or dairy products
Almost every person has such boxes in the house. As a rule, we throw them away, thinking that they are ordinary garbage. The technology for making a dining room from such a box is very simple and resembles the technology for making bottles.
Your actions, in order to make such a feeder, should be as follows:
- Using a felt-tip pen, marker or pen, mark the place where the hole will be located;
- Using a sharp knife or scissors, cut out the marked holes;
- Glue the bottom of the window with adhesive tape or adhesive tape;
- At the top of the package, make a hole into which you will thread the wire or rope for fastening;
- Hang the resulting feeder from a box of juice or milk to a branch so that it does not fly off in the wind.
To make such a dining room sway less when the wind or birds land, hang a small brick or some other weight from the bottom. The same can be attached to a plastic container.
It must be remembered that there are cases when the feeder is attached to the wall.
Bird canteen made from a shoebox
As we said above, such a dining room will not serve you long time. This is due to the fact that the material from which it is made is cardboard. But remember that there are boxes made of moisture-resistant cardboard. And you can also make protection from bad weather yourself by pasting the entire box with tape. This, of course, will increase the service life, but remember, such as plastic or wood, it will not.
As for the technology, it is very simple. Make a few holes in the box and on the lid and fix them. You can also fix the components using tape.
Other options for making bird dining
All of the above options were the most common. But there are also alternative options. The first is the feeder, which is made of tableware. You can also make a bird drinker out of it. It is also very necessary for the birds. Such original products are made from a saucer and a cup, and by adding a deep plate, you can get a drinker and a feeder at the same time. Some manage to make a bird's canteen from old plastic buckets. But the disadvantage of such a dining room is its large dimensions, due to which it is not possible to place the structure everywhere. But the disadvantage, oddly enough, is also a significant advantage: they can feed big birds, several pieces at the same time and more feed can be added.
And also exotic options include canteens made from food nets or pumpkins. You can use regular compressed food for feeding parrots.
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Angelica Moore
A cold, sometimes rainy autumn has come. It became warm in apartments and houses. But here our smaller brothers suffer from cold and hunger. So my daughter and I decided to take care of them a little and make a bird feeder. After all, they need our care in cold weather. For the manufacture of we need feeders: a cake box, a plastic bottle (you can use milk, a rope (for attaching to a tree, a wooden stick (in order to sit on it birds, adhesive tape, decorative paper, scissors, glue gun.
First, we cut a hole in the lid from under the cake with such a diameter that the neck of the bottle entered it.
A milk bottle was glued to the bottom of the cake box with a glue gun, in which a “door” was previously made for birds
We put the bottom part into the top of the cake box and twisted the lid, through which we passed the rope for fastening to a tree
It remains to choose a name for feeders. Daughter wanted it to be " Bird Restaurant". We chose the most beautiful decorative paper and cut out the necessary letters
Then these letters were glued to the resulting feeder. And also our feeder we wanted to decorate with a bow. " Bird Restaurant"Ready! Now feeder can be hung on a tree.
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How to make a bird feeder
A bird feeder is an item that every family can afford. This is communication with wildlife, and creativity, and generosity, and care - all that parents dream of instilling in their kids. But the most important advantage of the feeder is that even a child can make it quickly and easily! Winter is coming, let's take care of our feathered brothers!
There are some of the most popular options for "Bird Restaurants"
The simplest is from a cardboard box. It is better if the cardboard is factory-laminated, such a feeder will last a long time.
Option one - shoe box
2:75We take a box for shoes. The lower (deep part) will be the "dining room", and the lid, respectively, the roof. We cut out entrances with a size of 5-6 cm with scissors so that the birds can conveniently get into the feeder. And you will also need four wooden sticks that can be glued with pva or tape into the corners to raise our “roof”.
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The second option is a candy box
The easiest option is a house from a candy box. The base will be one part of the box, the roof will be two covers of the same size.
The third option is cardboard
You can make a real palace for birds out of cardboard, you just have to give free rein to your imagination.
6:1557One piece of advice: pre-laminate the cardboard with transparent tape.
Another simple, popular and most durable feeder is made of plastic bottle. For the manufacture of a transparent house, bottles from 1 to 3 liters are suitable. You can also make a large bird house from a five-liter bottle.
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The easiest option is a plastic bottle
We take a plastic bottle. On both sides we cut out windows-entrances. They can be glued with tape or tape so that the edges are not sharp, and it is more convenient for the birds to hold on. Or you can just hold candles around the edges with fire or lighters will melt and become rounded and pleasant to the touch.
10:1533We make several holes in the bottom with a hot knitting needle - so that water can escape during rains or thaws.
10:196Also at the bottom in the "walls" of the bottle we make symmetrical holes for sticks-perches.
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The feeder can be attached to the tree with a string or tape for jumpers between the windows or for the lid. To do this, we make a hole in the lid and insert the cord. This feeder is easy to hang from any branch.
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Feeder from a juice or milk box
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Wooden feeders
22:559 22:562The most beautiful, solid and creatively diverse option are, of course, wooden feeders.
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You can make them from any tree, from twigs, from slats of boxes and plywood. If you don’t have suitable wood, and it’s too early to give a hammer to many hands, you can buy a designer-feeder in the store.
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Do not forget to feed the birds only correctly! You will learn what you can pour into the feeder and what not!
And finally, some more interesting fantasy options
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In conclusion, I would like to say that making, for example, a garden bird feeder, will pay off for you with interest. Indeed, by feeding birds in the garden or at the dacha, you thus fight harmful insects and increase the yield of your garden several times. And the more feeders you make, the more birds you will attract. Just don't forget to feed them in time!
We hope this article has been helpful to you. Of course, today you can see many beautiful bird feeders on sale. But the one that you make with your own hands, both you and your feathered friends will like more. And if you engage in this useful and noble work together with your children, then this time will be spent with undoubted benefit for them as well.
46:3384 46:4Unfortunately, according to statistics, birds often die of hunger; they can find less and less food on the streets, especially in the winter season. To help the birds, you can make a feeder with your own hands, for example, together with a child who will be interested in this activity. You can put pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, millet, oats in the feeder. In winter, you can add nutritious nuts to the feeder.
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Option 1: Tin Bird Feeder
An interesting idea for a bird feeder, which is easy to make from improvised tools.
Instruments:
Preparation method:
- Cut a wooden stick into several pieces, 8-10 centimeters long.
- Make sure that the lid in the jar is cut off evenly, if there are sharp edges, they must be bent.
- Using a glue gun, glue the stick to the jar so that the bird can sit on it and eat like a perch.
- Wrap the jar with ribbons several times, pour food into it and hang it on a tree.
Helpful advice:
- Tin cans can be painted in bright colors with paint, so they will attract birds more and be visible from afar.
Option 2: Cardboard bird feeder
The easiest and simplest version of the feeder, which can be made from a juice box.
Instruments:
Preparation method:
- Rinse the juice box well without detergents and leave to dry.
- Using a knife or scissors, cut two holes on opposite sides of a square or round box.
- Paint the box in the desired color, wait until the paint dries.
- Slightly below the holes, make two cuts.
- Insert a wooden stick into the cuts so that its ends stick out on both sides so that the bird can sit on them.
- Make two cuts in the upper part of the box, insert a rope into them.
- Fill the bird feeder with bird food and hang it from a tree by a rope.
Helpful advice:
- So that the product does not get wet during the rain and does not become unusable, the box can be pasted on all sides with adhesive tape several times.
Option 3: Bottle Bird Feeder
The original feeder, which will be very easy to fill with food.
Instruments:
Preparation method:
- Cut the bottle in half.
- Make holes in the bottom of the bottle so that the bird can sit down and eat.
- Turn the upper part of the bottle upside down, insert into the lower part, not reaching the bottom by about 0.5 centimeters.
- When food is poured into the top of the bottle, it will be dispensed from the bottom.
- Make holes in the feeder, thread the rope and hang it on a tree branch.
Helpful advice:
- To prevent the bird from getting hurt on the sharp edges of the bottle opening, they can be sealed with electrical tape or plaster.
Option 4: Self-filling bird feeder
A very convenient feeder in which you can fill the feed and it will replenish itself as the bird eats.
Instruments:
Preparation method:
- Cut off the first bottle at its upper part.
- Make several holes near the bottom of the bottle so that birds can sit on them and eat.
- Make holes in the top of the bottle through which to stretch the rope.
- Leave the second bottle whole, use a funnel to fill it with food, about half.
- Turn over and insert with the hole down into the first, cut bottle, not reaching its bottom by about 0.5 cm.
Helpful advice:
- Several holes can be made in the bottom of the first plastic bottle so that water flows through them during a thaw.
Option 5: Bird feeder with spoons
An interesting idea of a feeder in which the birds sit on a spoon and eat food from it.
Instruments:
Preparation method:
- In a plastic bottle, make two holes perpendicular to each other at different heights with a knife.
- Insert a spoon into each hole.
- The hole from which the spoon sticks out is slightly widened so that the bird can independently get food from there.
- Make a hole in the cap of the bottle, stretch the rope and tie it.
- Screw the cap on the bottle and hang it from the tree, filling it with food.
Helpful advice:
- When making a feeder, you can insert not 2, but three spoons, the main thing to remember is that the grain level should be higher than them.
Option 6: Cardboard Bird Feeder
A good option is to use an old unwanted shoe or candy box.
Instruments:
Preparation method:
- Poke a few holes along the edges of the cardboard box with knitting needles. Pull the rope through the holes in the box.
- In the lid of the box, also make holes and stretch through them the rope that passes through the base of the future feeder.
- Fix the lid over the box at the desired height with glue and tie the feeder to the tree.
Helpful advice:
- It is good if the cardboard is durable or laminated so that it does not get wet in rain and snow.
Option 7: Edible Bird Feeders
A unique version of the feeder that the bird will eat immediately sitting on it.
Tools and food:
Preparation method:
- Put the lard in a saucepan and melt at a low temperature.
- Mix all dry ingredients with lard, knead thoroughly so that they are all soaked.
- Leave the mixture to dry slightly.
- Form a ball from the feed, put it in the net, from under the fruit.
- Put the feeder in the refrigerator to completely freeze and harden.
- At the end of the net, stretch and tie a rope.
- Hang an edible feeder by a rope from a tree.
Helpful advice:
- You can make several such feeders by hanging them on a wooden pole next to one another. You can put butter, pieces of fruit in the feeder.
Option 8: Pumpkin bird feeder
An interesting version of the pumpkin feeder, which will also be eaten by birds.
Instruments:
Preparation method:
- Rinse the pumpkin, cut two holes in it opposite each other, remove the pulp and seeds.
- Put a plank at the bottom of the pumpkin so that later the food gets soaked for me, lying on the pulp of the vegetable.
- Tie a rope to the tail of the pumpkin, hang it on a branch.
- Pour food on the plank.
Helpful advice:
- Alternatively, you can cut off the top of the pumpkin, scoop out the pulp, and stuff food inside it. On top of such a feeder, you will need to make a lid so that the food does not get wet during wet weather.
Option 9: Wooden Bird Feeder
It is more difficult to make such a feeder, but the birds will be able to use it longer, as it is stronger.
Instruments:
Preparation method:
- Using a jigsaw, cut out all the parts that are useful for the feeder from plywood.
- Among them: the bottom of the feeder, 4 boards for the sides of the bottom, 2 boards for the roof, 2 for the sides on one side of the feeder and 2 on the other.
- Glue the sidewalls to the bottom of the feeder on all sides so that the feed does not crumble in the future.
- Glue the front and back walls to the bottom of the feeder.
- Insert the side walls of the feeder so that there is some distance from the bottom at the bottom.
- So subsequently the food will spill out to the bottom of the feeder.
- Glue one part of the lid to the walls of the feeder, put the second on the hinges to the first.
- So you can always open the lid and add food.
- Nail all the details to each other with nails.
- Treat the entire feeder with fine sandpaper, open it with a protective varnish or impregnation for wood.
Helpful advice:
- Before starting work, you should make a sketch on paper of how the feeder will look like, so it will be easier to assemble it. Holes for nails should be drilled before hammering them in so that the wood does not crack later.
Option 10: Feeder - garland for birds
An excellent treat for birds, which is the easiest to make.
Instruments:
Preparation method:
- String bird food on a rope: bacon, dried fruits, nuts, crackers, bagels, etc. Make several of these.
- Use a knife to make several holes in the wooden plank.
- Insert the ropes with food into the holes of the strap and tie them.
- In the middle, insert a rope into the hole in the plank and tie the feeder to a branch on a tree.
Helpful advice:
- You can string the food on the wire, bending its end into a ring, so the bird can sit on it more easily than on a soft rope.
Video
Winter time is a serious test for birds. Every day it becomes more and more difficult to find food. Take care of the birds - hang a feeder made with your own hands from the simplest materials at hand, which we usually throw in a landfill. We took photos and original ideas making feeders that do not require special skills and complex drawings.
By accustoming the birds to the feeder, you can watch the entertaining bird flurry and secret life feathered.
Some of them defend their rights in a fight with relatives, others enter into competition with other species, but without exception, all carefully look around so as not to miss the attack of a small hawk, which is very interested in the visitors of the feeder.
A simple bird feeder will bring great benefits to birds Materials for making a feeder can be very diverse, but there are some general rules construction:
- the feeder should be, first of all, convenient for the birds, there should not be any difficulties when extracting food;
- the roof and sides will help protect the food from snow, rain and wind. From exposure to moisture, the food can deteriorate and become moldy, which means it will turn into poison for birds;
- it is desirable that the material from which the feeder will be made is resistant to moisture, otherwise this design will not last long and a new one will need to be made;
The feeder should be safe: not have sharp sides and be located high enough above the ground - walls and corners should not be sharp and prickly;
- feeders for small birds are made small so that larger and more aggressive species do not encroach on their food;
- it is better to place feeders on tree branches or attach them to the walls of outbuildings at a height of about one and a half meters, so that cats do not offend the birds, and it is convenient to add food to feathered friends.
Advice. Birds get used to a permanent feeding place and are ready to travel many kilometers to the feeder. Therefore, feeding must be constant, otherwise the birds may die.
Plywood bird feeder
You can buy a feeder in a hypermarket, or you can make it yourself in a few hours. A plywood feeder can be made open, with a flat or gable roof, provide a bunker compartment if you can not constantly monitor the amount of feed in the feeder. Of course, you will need drawings, fortunately, there are plenty of them on the Internet with ready-made sizes of parts for cutting. Choose the design that you like, the drawing will facilitate the work and ensure that the end result is exactly what is shown in the photo.
Lightweight and durable plywood feeder When choosing a drawing for a future feeder, consider the bird population in your region. Jays, pigeons and magpies can eat all the food, leaving little titmouses hungry. To prevent this from happening, make the size of the openings of the feeder so that large birds cannot reach the feed.
So, you will need a hammer, an electric jigsaw, nails of a suitable length, water-based glue, sandpaper, plywood, timber 20 x 20 mm. Consider the simplest feeder.
Wooden bird feeder ideas and drawings
Wooden feeders are attractive because they will last a long time, keep their shape well - this is due to the properties and reliability of wood. To make such a feeder, you will need at least minimal skills in working with tools and a drawing. The board for manufacturing should be 18 - 20 mm thick. Consider the option of making a feeder, which you can do yourself or take a photo as a basis for a drawing. We will need a 4.5 x 2 cm timber for the racks, a 25 x 25 cm square of plywood for the bottom, two pieces of 35 x 22 cm for the roof, nails, self-tapping screws and glue.
Feeding trough made of wooden beams 
Such a feeder can be installed permanently on a dug-in pole or drill two holes in the ridge, screw in a screw with a hook and hang it on a wire. Several birds can fly up to the feeder at the same time, the food is protected from the wind by the sides and the roof, the feathered friends of the garden will like such a cozy dining room.
Finished wood feeder If there is a gazebo on your site, hang a simple feeder without a roof there. It is enough to make a side and a bottom. If you want to paint the feeder or open it with varnish, then use water-based compounds so as not to harm the birds.
Advice. To prevent the tree from splitting, the tip of the carnation must be made blunt, and a hole must be drilled under the self-tapping screw before screwing in.
Making a cardboard feeder (suitable for children)
One of the simplest feeders. The cardboard option is interesting in that it can be made in a place with children and at the same time have a great time with them. This would be a great craft for kindergarten or elementary school. There is a lot of room for creativity here. Cardboard is a great option, it is only afraid of straight water. But if you want to play it safe and make the feeder more resistant to moisture, then you can glue the outer elements of the feeder with wide adhesive tape, especially its upper and lower parts. In the forest or in the park, such a feeder can easily last all winter and part of spring.
Cardboard feeder collage. Photo livemaster.ru/topic/179659-delaem-kormushku-iz-kartona The set of tools and materials is minimal, and if you don’t have something from this list, you can always find a replacement for it. So we need these materials and tools:
- A pair of cardboard sheets, (A4 format or more) ;
- Ruler;
- Adhesive tape (for structural reliability);
- Stationery knife;
- A tourniquet or a piece of nylon rope to hang the feeder;
- Pencil or felt-tip pen;
- Glue for cardboard or glue gun;
- Hole puncher.
If such a feeder is going to take the prize as the best craft in your kindergarten, then you have to sweat a little in terms of external design. Here our cardboard will give odds to any Tetra-Pak (this is a milk or juice bag), you can draw beautifully on it and decorate it in every possible way. Undoubtedly, the prize from kindergarten will be yours!
pumpkin feeder
But here, as they say, words are superfluous - everything can be seen in the photo collage. I would like to add that such a feeder looks very attractive and unusual and will be a real decoration of your garden, this is due to the shape of the feeder and its color, which looks great against the background of white snow. 
This option is also suitable for making with children. And such a beautiful, bright craft in kindergarten will definitely not go unnoticed.
Bird feeder out of the box Tetra pak) from juice or milk
You can make a feeder from a milk bag or a tetra pack from under the juice, like this. This is even for a child. For this you will need:
- a clean juice bag;
- a piece of nylon rope or wire to hang the feeder;
- adhesive plaster;
- marker;
- scissors or stationery knife.
Bird feeder from a milk bag First of all, we mark and cut holes on opposite sides of the tetra pack. To make it convenient for the birds to take food and fly out. We glue the window on the underside with adhesive tape for the convenience and safety of the birds. We pierce a hole under the holes with scissors and insert the cardboard folded into a tube, which remains from cutting the holes above. In the bent corners we make small holes for the wire or rope. And tie to a branch.
The feeder can be attached to a tree trunk. Such a feeder will not sway in the wind. For this, feeding slots are made not on opposite sides of the package, but on adjacent ones. On the opposite side, we fix the wire in the slot and fasten it to the tree.
Tetro pack horizontal feeder You can make a feeder out of two juice bags. We cut the first package along the narrow sidewalls, leaving the top not cut. We cut off the third part from the second tetra pack and cut a hole on the front side of the package - this will be the stern board or the bottom of the feeder. We combine the bottom with the first package so that we get a triangle. Parts can be connected with glue, wrapped with tape or pierced at the bottom of the sidewalls to insert tubes for cocktails.
Bird feeder from plastic bottles 1.5 - 2 liters
Consider some variations of the execution of the feeder with your own hands from plastic containers.
Option number 1. The simplest feeder
Symmetrically, on both sides of the bottle we cut out two holes: round, square, rectangular or in the form of an arch. Jumpers should remain between the holes. If you make a slot in the form of an inverted letter "P" and bend the plate up, you get a visor from the rain. You can stick a band-aid or fabric tape on the bottom edge of the hole - the edges will not be pointed and the birds will sit comfortably. We make symmetrical holes in the lower part and insert the stick - the result is a feeder with a perch.
A simple plastic bottle feeder You can attach such a dining room for birds on a tree by wrapping a jumper with tape, rope or other suitable material, as seen in the photo. If you make a hole in the bottle cap and insert the ends of the twine, and then tie them into a knot, you get a loop that can be thrown over the branches of garden trees.
Be sure to make the edges of the plastic feeder safe - seal the cuts with electrical tape Option number 2. Bunker feeder.
This design is rational in use in that the feed can be poured with a margin for several days. The feed, as it is eaten by the birds, will automatically fill up on the feeding ground itself.
Bunker feeder made of plastic bottles You will need two bottles of the same volume. We mark one bottle with a marker before cutting. We make holes at the bottom, as in feeder No. 1, and remove the upper third of the bottle. We make two symmetrical holes at the top - a ribbon or twine will later be attached to them for hanging the feeder. In the second bottle, we cut several holes at the narrowest part - food will spill out of them. Do not immediately make large holes, it is better to expand them later. We fill the bottle with food, tighten the cork and insert the bottle into the first bottle cut off by a third.
Option number 3. Feeder with spoon
We make a hole in the cork and insert the twine for hanging. Then we symmetrically make two holes the size of a spoon. Above the bowl-shaped deep part of the spoon, we cut a hole in the bottle, slightly expanding it so that the birds can take food. We fill the feeder and hang it up.
Feeder with spoon Advice. With a red-hot needle or small nail, make several holes in the bottom of the feeder to remove moisture that has got inside.
Bird feeder from a plastic bottle 5 liters
Probably, in every house there is an empty plastic five-liter water bottle. Make a feeder in one evening to feed birds in winter period from this material is very simple. Such a container will hold much more food than a smaller plastic bottle, as can be seen in the photo. Several holes will allow you to comfortably feed several birds at once.
Feeder from a five-liter plastic bottle It's very simple and fast option, invite your children or other family members to take part in the manufacturing process: find a ribbon or wire to tie the finished feeder to a tree branch, prepare a treat for the birds. Prepare a clean bottle, a sharp knife, secateurs or a clerical knife.
We cut the hole based on how we plan to fix the container on the tree:
- horizontally - cut a wide hole from the side of the bottom of the bottle and the same from the side of the neck;
- vertically - at a height of 5-7 cm from the bottom of the container, we cut several square holes or three rectangular ones.
Materials needed to make a feeder It is convenient to tie a bottle by the neck to a branch with wire or twine. If the feeder is made in a horizontal version, then make two holes on the wall with a knife, through which pass the twine for tying. To prevent the feeder from swaying in the wind, put a quarter of a weight brick on the bottom, and load a treat on top.
From a five-liter bottle, you can also build a bunker feeder. To do this, you will need a five-liter bottle and two 1.5-liter bottles, a marker, a stationery knife and a rope.
You can place the feeder under the roof to make the birds more comfortable 
With a little ingenuity, you can create unusual canteens for birds from the simplest plastic bottles that will decorate your site.
Shoe box bird feeder
Everything is simple here. We take a dense shoe box with a lid. We make a round hole in the lid. The hole needs to be moved slightly from the center to the bottom edge of the box (a little different in the photo), this is necessary so that the birds can get to the food that will lie at the bottom of the box.
We make a small hole in the upper part of the box and insert a tourniquet or rope into it. Tie an old pencil or stick to the end of this rope. We will then tie the other end of the rope to the branch of the tree on which we plan to hang the feeder. Then you can wrap the box with wrapping paper, but this is for the aesthetic component, you can not do this.
We make a roof from ordinary cardboard and put it on glue. Next, we glue the lid to the box itself with tape, as in Figure 3, 4, and also thread the rope through the lid.
At the moment when we hang the finished feeder on a tree, the roof may peel off from the box, but this is not scary, it cannot go anywhere, because. rope will hold it.
And in the picture below is an even simpler version of the shoe box feeder. But there is no need to explain anything, everything can be seen in the photo. The whole box is simply rewound with tape, which, by the way, is very practical. And in our opinion it turned out - original and unusual.
Cardboard box bird feeder
To make a bird's dining room with your own hands, the simplest material will fit, which is stored in abundance on the balconies of most families: boxes from electrical goods, cardboard packaging from food products. Choose thicker cardboard with a laminated coating, the laminate will slightly increase the life of the feeder. Although, as written above, wide tape can be used for these purposes. The advantage of this design is that there is already a bottom, walls and roof of the future feeder, which needs to be slightly modified by cutting square or rectangular holes on the sides.
Even a schoolboy can make a cozy feeder from a mailbox You will need a nylon cord, scissors or a clerical knife and adhesive tape. Since cardboard is a very short-lived material and is afraid of moisture, the finished feeder wrapped with tape will last until the next season. Having cut through the side holes and fastening the cord, you can hang the feeder and fill it with treats for birds that will not take long to wait. Put sand or some pebbles on the bottom so that the structure does not shake much with the wind.
If you cover the cardboard feeder with paints, then it will last longer. You can do it a little differently. We glue the lid of the box perpendicularly so that the lid serves as a stern stand, and the second part of the box is a side and a roof. We glue the structure with adhesive tape. We make two hooks from the wire: we bend a piece of wire in half and pierce the “ceiling” of the feeder with the ends, twist and bend from the inside. By connecting the hooks, you can hang the feeder on a branch. As you can see in the photo. Now pour the food and wait for the guests.
Bird feeder on the window (with suction cups)
These feeders are very interesting option for the general development of children, and adults too :). The feeder is attached to the window, or rather to the glass, with the help of suction cups. Usually such feeders are also made transparent in order to fully enjoy watching the birds. If you have suction cups, you can make such a feeder yourself, for example, from the same plastic bottle, but you must admit that after all it will not be as aesthetically pleasing as ready-made version from the shop. Children will probably start taking pictures of it all, and photos with yellowed, cloudy bottles will, to put it mildly, not so hot. Purchased options look very nice.
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