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 Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 1:09 pm
My dad is good with wood, he does carpentry for extra money, we make:
* Bird houses
* Bird feeders
* And squirrel feeders, basically its wood, you hang on a tree next to the trunk, there is a long slender stick in the middle with a base for hte squirrels to stand on, and you drill a hole in the middle of a corn cob, and stick it on. Squirrels love it.
He makes them, and i paint them, hehe x3
Then he showed me his ghetto bird bath using an old satellite receiver in our backyard, we've never used it - and we cant get anything to come safely remove it.
So he took a hammer, and turned it on its back, so the open receiver part is facing up. He removed the spiky thingy in the middle and smoothed the plastic over on the inside.
We fill it with water, and see if the birds like it..
And they do! I see many birds a day, cooling off in the bath in the shade of the trees. So we're going to remove hte water this weekend, and im going to paint it blue perhaps x3
* Do you do DIY critter houses/feeders?
* If so, which ones and how?
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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 1:54 pm
Awesome! My mom discovered "birdhouse" or bottle-necked gourds a few years ago and became a bit obsessed with making birdhouses out of them...
Grow the birdhouse gourds, cut them off the vine, let them dry out completely (so that the seeds rattle around inside), cut a hole in the middle of the gourd's bulge, shake out the seeds and hang it up! whee We've had lots of birds nest in them.
Aside from that, the only bird paraphernelia I've made is the traditional pine-cone and peanut butter bird feeders xd
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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 2:10 pm
SQUIRREL FEEDER IN MY BACKYARD BIRD HOUSE MY DAD MADEGHETTO BIRD BATH WE SMOOTHED OVERWOODEN SWING MY DAD AND I MADE LAST SUMMER
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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 3:55 pm
It all looks great! (Well, except your favorite, Georgia red clay---but you solved that one!)
Is it shady where the birdbath is? If it's sunny, remember not to paint it a dark color! smile
That swing looks wonderful!
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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 4:21 pm
sunsetsmile It all looks great! (Well, except your favorite, Georgia red clay---but you solved that one!) Is it shady where the birdbath is? If it's sunny, remember not to paint it a dark color! smile That swing looks wonderful! It is very shady, my back yard is COVERED in pine trees x3 But yes, im torn between brown, the color of everything else back there, and baby blue...Kinda different. Are birds scared by certain colors? sweatdrop
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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 5:47 pm
That swing is awesome. Large quantity of do-wantity. mrgreen
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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 9:36 pm
PiercedPixie2 sunsetsmile It all looks great! (Well, except your favorite, Georgia red clay---but you solved that one!) Is it shady where the birdbath is? If it's sunny, remember not to paint it a dark color! smile That swing looks wonderful! It is very shady, my back yard is COVERED in pine trees x3 But yes, im torn between brown, the color of everything else back there, and baby blue...Kinda different. Are birds scared by certain colors? sweatdrop I've never noticed them be afraid of colors, although they do want to know where the bottom is in a body of water. So when you fill it the first time, put a few pebbles or a rock in that just peeps above the water, and there shouldn't be a problem. They will miss the big rock after that if you forget to put it back in, though.
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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 10:39 pm
Wow, those are really good! I want to go take pictures of my mom's gourds now xd So many things that I need to do @_@
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Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 6:37 am
Those are so nifty.
The most complicated I've gotten is pling bird seed mix on a suspended board of wood. It does the job.
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Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 11:25 am
where I live we don't get too many birds, they are all over at my moms place. However we do get bats and we put up bat houses in the back yard. they are pretty neat to watch at dusk
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