Feed birds in winter, or 6 creative feeders do it yourself

The end of winter and the beginning of the spring is the hungry time for feathered. Please make them grains, berries and flakes!

Main recipe

For 3-4 rings

• 150 g of coconut solid oil or beef (pork) fat
• 1 tbsp. Spoon of vegetable oil

• About 300 g of grain mixture for birds
• Cardboard rings
• wire

1. Heat fat in a saucepan.

2. Milled fat remove from the stove, interfere with oil and grain in it.

3. Cardboard rings Put on a washing surface.

4. Apply a soft mass on the inner surface of the ring.

5. As soon as it hardens, swing the rings on the wire on the bushes or in the feeder.

Council : This mixture will have to taste in birds that love solid food (tits, sparrows and finchs). Replace some ingredients to attract as much pernata as possible. For lovers of soft feed (raspberries, wretched, droold) instead of grain mixture, use wheat bran, raisins and oatmeal. They need to be mixed with fat in the same proportions.

Bump with grains

For 2-3 cones:

• Open pinema bumps (you can use pine or spruce cones)
• Approximately 150 g of coconut oil
• 150 g grain mixture
• Small clay pot
• A little moss for floristics

1. Make a grain mass according to the main recipe (see Higher).

2. Still a hot mass in the space between the cones of the cones with a tablespoon. If you want to hang the finished bump on a tree or hang in a bird feeder, use the wire.

3. Lay out the clay pot of moss and put a bump in it.

Council : In order for closed bumps to open, you need to put them for several days in a warm place, for example, on the heating batteries.

Coconut with filling

2 pieces:

• coconut
• A mixture of oil and grains (see Recipe above: You will need a double volume)
• 2 branches (about 30 cm long)
• wire
• cord

1. Head the two holes in the coconut nut and drain the coconut milk. Split nut in the middle into two parts and remove the flesh. In the second half, also make two holes.

2. Shoot the branches in them. So that the branch does not fall out, wrap it in place, where it comes out of the walnut.

3. Prepare a mixture of grains and oils for the main recipe while it is soft, fill it with halves of nuts.

4. Finished feeders. Hang over the cord in the place available to birds.

Mobile for birds

For one mobile:

• Rod, a bit of fir twig
• 3 untreated apples
• on a ring and ball from the main recipe for den
• cord and 1.5 m of coconut twine

1. Roll the wreath of 2-3 plates. If necessary, fix the ends of the wire. Dry last year's rods for 2-3 weeks, soak in water so that they become flexible.
2. Ties to wreath whole apples, slices of apples and rings with balls made of grain mixture.
3. Make a coconut twin fastening. Optionally, add fir branches, securing them between the twigs. Suspend your mobile to the place protected from sun rays.

Learn for this chain to cord nuts and dried apples:

Council : Use only solid fruits or slices as in the picture. Too little pieces of bird swallow the whole and hardly digest.

Wreath from millet

For one wreath:

• Blank for a wreath with a diameter of 40 cm (ready or made of branches with their own hands)
• Ear of different varieties
• Several spikelets of real wheat
• wire
• tissue

1. Tie the spikelets and cobs to the wreath. Nesterly, if they appear for the edges. Wreath should not look too neat. Take the spikelets with wire, pull so that the spikes do not fall out when the birds decide to enjoy.
2. Last spikelets disguise the joints of the junction.
3. Hang a wreath on the fence in the garden or at the front door.

Council : Decorate wheat wreath with wild fruits, which can be found on a walk.

one. Raisins Love birds feed on berries (for example, a thrush or starling).

2. Peanut Gives a lot of energy and vitamins. They feed the birds in the cold months.

3. Soy grain Very rich in energy. Their plus is that there is no peel and shells.

four. Sunflower seeds - Classic feeding for birds. In striped peel harder than black. They prefer birds with a more powerful beak.

five. Grain mixes Primary the sparrows, blue and chaffins.

6. Soft feed With flakes, berries and bran eat birds, which feed on waste or soft seeds, - Skvorts, raspberries, wipes, frozards.

Asterisk from food

For 10 pieces

• 200 g of coconut oil

• about 200 g of wheat seeds
• Narrow tape for hanging

1. Heat coconut oil to liquid state.

2. Unlock with foil and spread out forms for cookies.

3. Fill the molds with a peashed layer of 5 mm. Immediately put the ribbon in the form so that it is then fixed.

4. Pour the oil, leave to cool. Frozen stars pull out of the form.

Council : You can also prepare a mixture of seed and fat and pour it into forms (see a large photo). He who forgot to immediately put ribbons, can then turn thin wire in an asterisk.