Simple Vintage Glass Insulator Bird Feeder for Fall.
by
Laurie @ Vinyet Etc
(IC: blogger)
We live in the country and we have lots of different types of wild life, mostly though we have a ton of birds… in the fall we start putting out the suet for our feathered friends, we refill the suet cages usually every 4 days when it’s very cold. Our large bow window is like a big TV, if you’re into bird watching that is. For us it’s a never ending form of relaxation and entertainment. Maybe we should get out more… hahah. ;) Today I wanted to show you how I use some of my favourite vintage insulators to feed our friends.
A glass insulator, in this case size does not matter. You can hang a bunch of different sizes, colours, get creative and hang a variety of them, this is for your entertainment… go for it I say.
Twine, string, or any cord that appeals to you. Last year I just used jute and I didn’t do anything fancy. This year I wanted to try my hand at macrame and decided to use the jute to do that. I like the way it turned out, it’s not fancy… I liked it just as much last year too with just plain jute.
If you’d like to macrame your jute holder, any tutorial on YouTube will help you with that… that is where I got my VERY simple pattern from this year. But…
Once the insulator is secured in the hanger I filled the feeder. I filled the very bottom of the insulator (where the insulator is threaded) with black oil sunflower seeds, I find this little trick makes clean up much faster.
Then, I stuffed the top portion of the insulator with suet. We buy, already made suet, I know you can easily make your own, but that’s where we get lazy.
Then, I simply sprinkle the top and outer edge with black oil sunflower seeds. Pop on over to the blog to see if this little and adorable, if I do say so myself was successful in attracting some cute birds.
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Published October 19th, 2015 8:22 AM
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Mssmatch on Nov 03, 2015Jute has a decreased strength when wet, and also becomes subject to microbial attack in humid climates. Guess the jute I used got attacked and just broke apart!
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Laurie @ Vinyet Etc on Aug 16, 2016It's very similar jute to what I used. Mine is still holding strong, strange.
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