Help The Birds!

It is June and a busy time for birds. many are raising families and may be gathering up to as much as 20 times as much food as usual!! Help them by putting out a feeder, or even better, make a feeding-station. The two most common feeder types are seed and peanut feeders.  These vary greatly in quality and price. Other feeders include fat ball feeders, suet or bread feeders,  and feeders with predator protection cages. When you buy fat balls, they generally come in a green or red mesh net, ready for hanging. Handy! You can make home-made feeders and food too. Get a  small 250ml coke bottle and cut some holes in it near the base. Put in some seed, and you're done! or, scatter kitchen scraps on the lawn or put them in a special scrap basket. Melt some suet, put some seed in, stir it, pour it into a pot or coconut shell half, and put on the bird table. Great! You can put out a bird bath if you want which will attract more birds than I get! (I don't have a bird bath.) Now you have those birds coming!