Thistle Bird Feeder

Linda B
by Linda B
I saw a bird feeder made from a soda bottle and I wanted to make one also. I already have a bird feeder for sunflower seeds. I wanted a thistle feeder to try to attract the American Goldfinch which is so pretty at this time of year-bright yellow!
I took a bottle and melted holes in it for a dowel to go through. Then I melted a tiny hole just above the dowel for the birds to get the seeds out of. Please don't melt the bottle if you make this. Drill the holes. It's safer. I didn't have hubster or son to drill - "I don't have time now". So I was left to my own devices to figure it out. Drilling is better.
This was one really easy craft. Hopefully, the Goldfinches will find the thistle feeders soon. Hope everyone enjoyed this. i wish I had a picture of a bird on the feeder!
Best wishes, Linda
A small Coke bottle turned into a thistle feeder.
A long skinny bottle is perfect. See the holes?
See the dowel? It goes straight through the bottle.
Linda B
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  • Gsn32699056 Gsn32699056 on Jan 11, 2023

    I would put some kind of filler in the bottom up to just under the hole for the bird’s beak. Otherwise you are wasting all the seed from the hole down as there is no way the birds can get to the seed below the “feeding hole”. Don’t use rocks or even pebbles as the seed falls thru the gaps and again you lose feed. I, myself, would probably use either sand or soil to fill the bottom. Then you wouldn’t waste seed.

  • Zel84774223 Zel84774223 on Jan 16, 2024

    Yes. I have discovered a bunch of flower vase. This would a lovey way of using them up.

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