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How to Make a Bird Feeder

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You will need
Plastic bottle, Scissors, Marker Pen, Thin Cane, Wire, Gravel, Bird Seed
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Difficulty
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Steps
4 steps
In the winter months the birds in your garden can find it difficult to find enough food. You can help them by putting out a bird feeder and if you make it yourself it won't even cost you anything.

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Take a standard 2L drink bottle and mark out and cut circular holes about a third of the way up from the base. Make sure there are no sharp edges.
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Just below the holes make two small holes and push a cane through the bottle to act as a perch.
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Feed a wire through the screw cap so that you can hang the feeder in your garden.
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To give the feeder some stability you can put gravel in the base. Finally, put food up to the level of the circular holes and hang in your garden.