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Hopper Bird Feeders
Platform Bird Feeders
Tube Bird Feeders
Suet Feeders
Mealworm Feeders
Bird Feeders for Kids
Seed Preferences of Birds
Hopper Feeders are convenient because you just have to lift the lid and pour in the food. They will usually hold more than one days worth of food. The hopper feeder has trays on each side for birds to land on and the bird seed is protected from rain and snow. The wood feeder can be reloaded with seed from the top and it can hang from a tree, pole or a hook.
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Gourmet Bird Feeder Plan
Here's a uniquely designed feeder that you can load with up to 4 different types of seeds to bring a variety of birds to your feeder. Just match the birds you choose to attract with the seeds they prefer to eat.
Free Bird Feeder Plans
Make this wood feeder with a roof.
McTweet Cafe Bird Feeder
This free bird feeder plan features a top that slides up a cord, allowing easy removal of the seed bottle. Seed bottle is a regular water bottle.
Bird Gazebo
Build this gazebo for your birds and mount on a pole.
Wood Bird Feeder Plans
This was a 4-H woodworking exhibit bird feeder plan. Nice blueprints and diagram of a wooden feeder.
Hopper Bird Feeder Plans
In this bird feeder project, you will use a piece of 8"-wide cedar lap siding to build a decorative bird feeder and then mount it on a piece of scrap plywood.
Hopper and Platform Bird Feeder
This bird feeder is a combination of a platform and wood hopper type of bird feeder. It uses a piece of 8"-wide cedar lap siding to build a decorative feeder box and then mounts it on a piece of scrap plywood.
How to Build a Bird Feeder
This wood hopper feeder can be mounted on a post as diagramed or hung, using wire from a coat hanger.
Build a Bird Feeder
Here's a set of plans for a pair of bird feeders that can be made from the scraps left over from other jobs.
Modern Bird Feeder
Give your feathered friends some seriously stylish digs. Make this modern bird feeder.
Bird Feeder Plan
This project is a little more difficult than some of the others.
Large Self Feeder
Large hopper feeder on a post for your yard.
Building a Thistle Seed Dispenser for the Birds
Thistle seed is a delicacy that will attract chickadees, goldfinches, pine siskin, and other small birds. But the seeds are so tiny that most bird feeders can't contain them properly and they end up pouring out onto the ground. To eliminate this problem, this thistle seed dispenser is lined with a fine wire mesh, or screen, that holds the seeds without spilling them.
Bird Feeder
This pine bird feeder can be filled up infrequently as it can store several weeks worth of food at a time.
Wood Bird Feeder
This simple, but sturdy bird feeder has clear, plastic sides to view feed levels and holds about six pounds of feed.
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Platform Feeders attract a wide variety of birds and allows many to feed at once. They can be hung from a hook, placed on the ground, or mounted on a pole. They usually have screen on the bottom which allows water to drain, helping to keep seed fresh. Some have a roof for protection from rain and snow. Platform feeders are designed to accommodate birds of all sizes.
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Platform Bird Feeder Plans
Nice diagram for an attachable stationary platform feeder.
Victorian Bird Feeder
This Victorian bird feeder is elegant, inexpensive and easy to make. The ivy leaf scroll-work and the all-white painted finish are reminiscent of a 19th-century Victorian home. Print the plans here.
Platform and Hopper Bird Feeder
This bird feeder is a combination of a platform and wood hopper type of bird feeder. It uses a piece of 8"-wide cedar lap siding to build a decorative feeder box and then mounts it on a piece of scrap plywood.
Hex Platform Bird Feeder
This bird feeder has screen in the bottom so that the rain can run through and the bird seed will dry out really good after the rain.
Platform Feeder
This is a simple platform feeder. Put out different types of seed and see who comes visiting.
Building a Simple Platform Feeder
One excellent method for attracting birds to your yard is with a platform feeder. These easy-to-build feeders attract a wide variety of species.
Flowering bird feeders
With ground covers on the roof, these easy-to-make feeders shelter the seed naturally. Here are the plans for 3 different platform feeders with roofs and flowers.
Build a simple platform feeder with roof
This simple platform feeder has a stationary roof to protect the food from rain, snow, etc.
Easy platform feeder
A tray birdfeeder from one board - great beginner's project.
Make a Hanging Bird Feeder
Attracting bird life to your garden with this simple homemade bird feeder is an inexpensive job and one that you will enjoy for a lifetime.
Bird Table
The advantage of this bird feeder is that you can easily put table scraps onto it, rather than relatively expensive bird seed. And let's face it, the birds are happy to get anything in the winter...especially if you're a good cook!
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Tube Bird Feeders have more than one feeding station with perches that allow for multiple dining. The tube style bird feeder protects seed from weather and allows multiple birds to feed at the same time.
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Song Bird Feeder
A Large Feeder for Back Yard Bird Feeding. 19 1/2" tall. Accommodates six feeding song birds at one time.
Treat Feeder for Birds
Here is a project that you can make in about a half an hour. The birds will love it. The feeder has recessed holes to fill with a peanut butter based mixture.
Castle Song Bird Feeder
A Large Feeder for Back Yard Bird Feeding. 18" tall. Accommodates six feeding song birds at one time through squirrel proof side holes.
Log Feeder for Peanut Butter Suet
Our own easy bird feeder plan for Log Feeder for Peanut Butter Suet using a log of any length. Includes recipe for suet.
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Suet Feeders hold purchased suet cakes or suet cakes you make yourself usually in a wire cage. We have also listed some feeders here that use a peanut butter suet stuffed into holes.
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Suet Bird Feeder
Nice diagram of plans for a suet bird feeder.
Suet Bird Feeder Plans
Suet feeder plans for a suet holder with a roof.
Simple Bird Feeder
This feeder will make a very inviting small feeding station for your feathered friends who stay in your vicinity during the cold winter months. The ¼ inch wire mesh holds enough suet to last a long time.
Suet Bird Feeder
Make this simple suet feeder, insert the suet cake, wire shut, and hang outside for the birds to enjoy!
Build a Woodpecker Suet Feeder
By filling these holes with either store-bought or homemade suet, you'll bring down the most reluctant and shy woodpecker from their hiding places amongst the trees.
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Bird Seed Preferences of Birds
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| Black Oil and Striped Sunflower Seeds |
Chickadees, Nuthatches, Finches, Sparrows, Mourning doves, Bluejays, Cardinals, Titmice, Buntings,Grosbeaks |
| Cracked corn |
Blue jays, cardinals, mourning doves, sparrows, starlings, woodpeckers |
| Thistle Seeds (Niger) |
Finches, Buntings, Redpolls, Siskins, Juncos, Mourning Doves |
| Millet (White Variety) |
Blackbirds, Cowbirds, Grackles, Juncos, Sparrows, starlings, Finches, Mourning Doves, Cardinals, Buntings, Towhees, Blackbirds, Pigeons |
| Safflower |
Safflower Jays, Grosbeaks, Finches, Cardinals, Titmice, Mourning Doves, Chickadees, Nuthatches, Song Sparrows |
| Milo, Sorghum |
Grackles, Starlings, some Sparrows, Mourning Doves, Pigeons, Cowbirds, Bluejays |
| Peanuts |
Cardinals, Woodpeckers, Bluejays, Finches, Magpies, Nuthatches, Titmice, Chickadees, Sparrows & Squirrels |
| Suet Bird Feed |
Woodpeckers, Chickadees, Titmice, Nuthatches, most birds will eat some suet. |
| Mealworms |
Nuthatches, Titmice, Bluebirds, Wrens, Cardinals, Robins, Woodpeckers, Chickadees |
| Peanut Butter |
Sparrows, Finches and Mourning Doves |
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