![]() ![]() ![]() Hang a wine bottle upright in your yard to invite little friends to your garden. You’ll need cedar boards, brad nails, wood glue, wine bottle, bird seed, a pencil, and some technical assistance. Learn the steps at She Knows.Īlso Read: DIY Bird Bath Ideas 6. DIY Bird FeederĮmploy your glass bottle collection in making a set of these bird feeders for your garden or balcony. It’s a bit complicated in the picture above but you’ll be able to understand the tutorial well in this video here. Fish-Shaped Bird FeederĬut out a fish design on a wood piece and secure the shape to a wine bottle using a wire. We found the idea here.Īlso Read: DIY Squirrel Proof Bird Feeder Ideas 4. Fill the bottle with bird seeds and add feeder base to the mouth of the bottle. Wrap copper wire around a bottle so that the end of the bottle has an S shape hook for hanging. Don’t fasten the roof to the top to ensure easy removal of the bottle. Tighten a wine bottle to a bird feeder channel with a clamp to imitate the feeder idea here. For the supply list and the tutorial, watch this video. Put on your safety glasses and turn a simple beer or wine bottle into one of the above bird feeders. While there are countless ways to make use of empty wine bottles, you can also make DIY bird feeders out of them.Īlso Read: 26 DIY Wine Bottle Ideas 1. I was worried about that.These 12 DIY Wine Bottle Feeder Ideas are the perfect way to utilize your wine bottle collection. The holes on the bottles are just right, not too big at all. They found the homemade thistle feeder and are having lunch! See here. UPDATE: We are under 34 inches of snow in Connecticut! So the birds are looking for food. If you found this helpful, will you pin it? Or share it? Many thanks, Happy Valentine’s Day, pretty little birds. That’s the best kind of projects, huh? Now I just hope that these holes are the right size and that the little goldfinches find these feeders soon. ![]() Plus it looks kinda cute hanging in the tree. I put a cute little sticker on it for Valentine’s Day for the birds. I also had a small bottle of Coke and I prepared that bottle the same way. I then made two more holes just above where the dowel was for the seed to come out of. The dowel goes straight through the bottle.Then I used Fabri Tac glue to glue the dowel in place. That being said, I then took a wooden dowel and put the dowel through the two holes I made. I would feel awful if someone burnt themselves taking my advice. ![]() It can also be drilled but no one around here (son or hubster) wanted to do it so I took to my own resources. I had a metal pick and heated up the end and melted a hole in the plastic bottle. I am reluctant to say how I put the holes in the bottle for fear that someone else might want to do it that way also. :) I took the paper and gummy stuff off and had this: Sometimes thistle feeders are no more than a black mesh bag, but that would be far too simple. No, I didn’t need a sunflower bird feeder (I have one). I saw a soda bottle sunflower feeder online (don’t remember where that was – if anyone knows I’ll gladly give that person credit). All the seeds were caked together at the bottom and I knew it was time to get (or make) a new feeder. If you have a thistle (Niger) seed feeder they will all flock around it. You see this little guy? The American Goldfinch?!Īt this time of year in the Northeast (Connecticut) the goldfinch is in his beautifully bright yellow phase.They look like yellow flowers flying around. ![]()
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