How to Make a Natural Bird Feeder

Bird watching can bring hours of enjoyment and can entertain indoor cats for hours too. An excellent way to attract birds to your yard is with bird feeders. Bird feeders do not have to be expensive or showy. Birds can easily be attracted to your yard with a bird feeder made of table scraps. Plus, this is a great way to put food waste to better use rather than placing it in the trash or garbage disposal. This way you and the birds benefit!

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Use the peel of half an orange. Just make sure that instead of peeling the orange as a whole, you cut the orange in half and scoop out the fleshy fruit leaving the half of the orange peel whole.

2. Cover the inside of the orange peel with a layer of peanut butter.

3. Sprinkle the peanut butter with a bird seed mix. Small birds like the titmouse and nuthatch will be attracted by the peanut butter and the peanut butter keeps the seed mix from falling out of the orange peel.

4. Place the orange peel bird feeder in a flower bed or in a hanging basket. Birds will eat the peel and all.

Tips & Warnings

• Attract orioles replacing the peanut butter with a small amount of orange marmalade.
• Keep squirrels out of the feeders by placing acorns on the ground under the feeder. The squirrels will stay busy with the acorns and will be too happy and distracted to bother the bird feeder.

[inquisitgeek]

on 6/11/2009 Great article - thanks!