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Home » Animals and Nature » Make your own bird feeder

Make your own bird feeder

Modified: Jun 30, 2023 · Published: Feb 22, 2013 by Emma Vanstone · This post may contain affiliate links · 1 Comment

Winter can be a tough time for birds. Food is in shorter supply, and if an icy frost creeps over, it can harden nuts and berries and make it impossible to eat them. Birds can starve to death after three days if a frost or snow continues, and many rely on bird feeders as their only source of food.

This is a super easy and fun way to make your own food for birds.

It is important to remember that if you start putting food out, you need to commit to it as birds start to become reliant on where their food source is.

Pinecones for a homemade bird feeder

How to make a pine cone bird feeder

What you need:

Pine cones

Butter/lard

Good quality birdseed.

Instructions

First, you need to find some pine cones, which require a nice little nature walk!

Pour some birdseed into a tray or pot.

If you intend to hang the pine cones, tie some string around the bottom. If not, you can leave this bit out.

Smear the lard into the crevices of the pine cone and roll the pine cones in the seeds so they stick.

Pine cone bird feeder - autumn science for kids

Take out to your new bird feeders to your bird table or hang them in the trees.

Bird table in the snow

More Easy Bird Feeder Ideas

Rainy Day Mum has a great suet ball bird feeder idea.

Red Ted Art has lots of brilliant bird feeder crafts!

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Easy bird feeders for kids to make using  pinecones, lard and seeds #birdfeeders #scienceforkids #outdoorscience

Last Updated on June 30, 2023 by Emma Vanstone

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  1. Liz Burton

    February 22, 2013 at 5:00 pm

    We love making these too. We sometimes use unsalted peanut butter.

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