Bird feeders plans are astounding to help you build your favorite bird feeders. There is nothing like bird feeders to make your garden or backyard come to life and attract many species of birds. There are some dissimilar models for you to build if you want to attract definite kinds of birds.
Suet Feeders
This is a great bird feeder to attract bigger birds such as chickadees, cardinals, woodpeckers or blue jays. Suet is absolutely a piece of animal fat that you put inside a container covered with wire. The holes has to be big adequate to allow the birds to pick at the fat. This is great food to feed the birds while the winter months.
Building a suet bird feeder is easy with two small plates of wood attached together with 6 inches long wood sticks, a rope to hang it with and some wire with holes of a half of an inch wrapped around the sticks, creating a caged area on the middle to put the suet.
Hopper Feeders
This is the most often sen bird feeder and it is easy to build one in any version you like. A large platform at the bottom can keep the seeds from falling on the ground and get wasted. The produce consist in a tiny house with walls and a liftable roof for easy refilling. Making small openings allow the seeds to spill slowly onto the bottom tray.
This kind of feeder attract a lot of dissimilar range of birds such as blue jays but also squirrels, especially if they are suspended under a tree. Try to put your feeder in a place where the squirrels cannot entrance it too easily.
Tube Feeders
The tube feeders you can buy at the market are made of plastic and will not last very long. Soon the plastic will break with the cold and you will have to get new ones. Construction one with wood is a great idea. To do so build a long rectangle box and drill one inch holes all around it. Adding perched under the holes will attract a large range of small birds that cannot cling as absolutely as woodpeckers and finches can.
To attract larger birds, attach a bottom tray under the tube to obtain the seed to they will land and feed there.
There are many more models you can make yourself for a fraction of the cost of what they sell for in sell stores.
