#Homemade cardinal bird feeder full#

Just remember that some peanut butters contain a sweetener called Xylitol which can be toxic for dogs, so be careful around dogs. Instead of a store bought suet cake, you can mix peanut butter with bird seed to fill the holes. * Depending how hard your wood is (I soooo want to make a joke here) you might want to use the drill press and Forstner bits which make drilling into the wood a lot quicker, but I realize not everyone has a drill press and fancy Forstner bits just lying around the garage. If you see Tippi and a huge flock of birds around town, I'd move the feeder inside for a few days! Run twine through the hook and attach it to a tree or pole in your yard.Įnjoy watching your bird friends devour the treat you made for them. Nothing soap and water can't fix, but I did want to warn you that this stuff is sticky. This might also be a good part to say if you plan on using your fingers you might want to use gloves or a plastic bag to keep the greasiness off your fingers. I tried to compact it as much as possible using a combination of the spoon and my fingers. This part can get a little messy, so lay down a towel or paper towels first to keep your tabletop clean. Take spoonfuls of the suet and pack it into the holes. You do not want to melt it completely, so just soften it enough you can work with it. If your suet cake is not soft to the touch, you can heat it up in the microwave for a few seconds.

Drilling a small pilot hole first makes it screw in easily. Screw your eye hook into the top of the log. In this photo you see 3 holes, but if you would rotate it you would see the other 3 holes. You can space them however you like, although try not to have two holes on opposite sides of the log in the exact same place (or you will basically be drilling straight through the log). I drilled 6 holes spaced randomly on the log. You can also use large branches from your yard or small pieces of firewood.ĭrill holes in your log with your bits approximately 1' deep. I took some birch poles that I found on after-Christmas clearance and cut them in half (I don't know why they think birch poles are only for Christmas, but I was happy to find them for less than $1 a piece). Drill with Spade Bit or Drill Press with Forstner Bit*.Log approximately 2 - 3 inches in diameter and 1.5 to 2 feet long.

#Homemade cardinal bird feeder full#

You can read my full disclosure policy here.) DIY Log Bird Feeder (This post contains some affiliate links for your convenience. So I decide to make my own bird feeder, hoping it would be less expensive (it was) and would't attract the wrong crowd (I haven't seen the ugly birds try to fly off with it in their mouths so far). These rogue scrawny yahoos were not my friends. It had mealworms and other bugs in it and was a special treat for my loyal and trustworthy bird friends who make winter in Ohio just a little more bearable. I had bought the bell at a specialty bird store for my pretty Cardinals, my delightful Blue Jays and my friendly Woodpeckers. Tippi Hedren would have been running for cover. It was like a scene out of The Birds movie. I came home from the grocery store the other day to 1,500 black and gray scrawny looking birds devouring my $7.95 birdseed bell.