If you eat, live in a house, have a tool box (nothing fancy), and maybe $10.00 in your pocket, or your piggy bank, you are ready to go. And remember, these feeders are cheap as dirt to make, so no big deal if you have to make another one.

 

The simplest feeder is a suet feeder made from a log and metal bottle caps.  Simply nail the caps to the log, add a screw eye to the top, run wire through the screw eye and it's ready to hand.  Put suet or a mix of peanut butter in the bottle caps and the birds will have a feast.

 

 

Chickadee Feeder

Materials:

1 mayo jar

1’ wire

canning lid  (without center)

1 dryer vent clamp

 

Thistle Seed Feeder

Materials:
1 or 2 liter plastic soda bottle
3 or 4, 3/16” wide, 5” long wooden dowels (or straight sticks will do)
A single-edged razor blade or X-acto knife
8” of wire or monofilament line
1 metal eye screw
hand drill and small bit

Tin Can Feeder

Materials:

1 piece of 1 x 8 (about 3/4” x 7 1/4”) or 16” board or 3/4”  x 8” x 16”   exterior plywood
1 piece 1/4” x  1/4” x 16”
1 piece 1/4” x 1 3/8” x 33” lattice
1 fruit juice can about 4 1/4” x 7”
42” #16, 17, or 18 wire
3/4” wire nails