RSPB Birdwatch, Bird feeders and Duct Tape.

Next weekend is the RSPB national Birdwatch.  I intend to join in, as I have done now for the past three or four years. You can too! https://www.rspb.org.uk/birdwatch/  I do love my little feathery friends and love to watch them eating seeds from the feeder in my garden. I love the calm, loving togetherness of 'my' pair of collared doves and the excitable chattering of the huge sqwabble of sparrows that regularly fight over who should be sitting on the feeder!

This is the feeder as it was the first thing this morning 

I know, a thing of beauty, right?

There is a wonderful pinterest blog with ideas on how to create some extremely beautiful homemade bird feeding stations. My personal favourite is the feeder made from tea cups and saucers. 

Off I happily jogged to gather some crafty lil' bits and bobs. And made this somehow threatening terrifying cludge of dafuq  'quaint' bird feeding station.

If you would like to create your very own version of this interesting and modern take on bird feeders you will need the following items.

• Duct tape (VITAL)
• Old steel poles capable of giving you tetanus
• Up to date tetanus vaccines
• A big rock
• An old bottle
• The stabbiest knife you can find (I can't find my scissors)
• Some string or wool
• Old plastic saucer
• Table scraps/seeds
• A few carefully selected twigs.
• Good quality vacuum cleaner

Take one of your slightly rusty poles and use your big rock to slam the pole into your garden until it seems more or less stable. Kick it a bit to test it. Next, Take your other pole and manically cludge carefully tape it length ways to the pole in the ground. At this point it unfortunately looks a bit crucifixy ( I was worried I would somehow offend someone)

Now the time has come to hang different sorts of feeding apparatus from your rusting, duct taped cludge cross!  base structure!

A nice easy way to start is with a simple bottle feeder:

Can you see now why a vacuum cleaner is handy during this make?

Take your bottle and carefully stab three holes in the side of it with your knife. There will be rough edges, smooth these by sticking duct tape around the holes. Next choose a stick to tape to the hole you have made so that the little birdies have somewhere to land. Finally fill with seed and screw on the lid. Attach to base with any amount of duct tape or string.

Now for the hanging saucer!!

Classy AND functional

Duct tape the string to your saucer and wahey! it's bird feeding time!