Recycled Birdfeeders: How to!

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Foundation Learning Group 3: Solutions for recycling plastic drinks bottles

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Recycled Birdfeeders

• Used plastic bottle & top (washed)
• Drawing pin
• Small nail scissors
• Sellotape
• Sticks x4
• String (30cm)
• Birdseed

Materials Needed

• Using a drawing pin, create a pinhole on both sides of a plastic bottle, 3cm up from the base.
• This marks where you cut out a ‘1p’ sized hole to insert a stick.

Step 1

• Using small nail scissors, cut a hole where you have made your marks. Be careful when doing this.
• Then, insert a stick that has about 10cm sticking out each side. This is for the birds to perch on.

Step 2

• Repeat step 2 about 5cms up on the opposite sides so that the second stick crosses over the first.

Step

• Using your drawing pin, make a pinhole in the plastic bottle 5cm above each place where a stick protrudes. Use this as your marker to cut a larger hole (about the size of a 2p)
• You should make 4 holes altogether, one above each perch.

Step 4

• The holes should line up with the perches.
• Next you should cover the open holes with a little Sellotape. This will stop the seed falling out until you are ready to position the feeder in the garden.

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• Make 2 small holes at the top of the bottle near the neck. Thread through a piece of string about 30 cm long and tie tightly.

Step 6

• Using birdseed, fill the birdfeeder and screw the top back on, being careful to pull the string up so that it hangs.

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Step 7

• Hang the feeder in an appropriate spot that is safe from predators like cats and dogs
• Remember to remove the Sellotape from the holes (some seed may fall out but there will be enough left for the birds. The fallen seed will attract their attention.)
• Fill up when the seed drops below the feeding holes

Step 8

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Students hung the feeders around the college so we could watch the birds have their breakfast…

- Foundation Learning Group 3 Newtownards -

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