Attract birds to your garden
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Attract birds to your garden with these simple feeder ideas. They're cheap, easy and great activities to do with kids.
Don’t worry, no baking is required. This quick and easy treat is packed full of energy to keep birds going, especially important in cold weather. Design your own recipe or use whatever’s to hand.
If you want to avoid a sticky fat mixture, turn used cartons into seed holders.
There are a number of tricks you can try if you’d like to make things a little harder for greedy squirrels, depending on where you hang your feeders.
Try mixing chilli powder with Vaseline and smearing over the pole. The slippery mixture is difficult to grip, and squirrels won’t like the hot taste of the chilli they’ll need to clean from their fur. Mixing chilli with bird seed can also put them off but won’t bother the birds.
Thread short lengths of hose or plastic bottles on the line to either side. They’ll spin when a squirrel tries to scurry along them.
Make your own squirrel baffle by punching a hole through the bottom of a plastic mixing bowl. Tie a knot in the string the feeder hangs from so that the bowl will sit inverted over the top.
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