Bird Feeder Bird

Make a bird to feed your birds! Inspired by the wild parrots of Telegraph Hill calling out in droves to wake me in the morning, I made a parrot to feed them.
Using bread as a base and peanut butter as the glue, I covered this bird in seeds that parrots like best. Find out what your local birds like to eat from a pet shop, and attract them to your yard!

Step 1 Materials

• bird seed
• peanut butter
• bread dough
• coat hanger or other heavy gauge wire
• baking sheet
• dowel (opt)

Comments

[hvnlyflwr]

I would love to make one for my parrots....but I would have to replace the wire coat hanger with a safer wire for them. I can just see them destroying the whole thing in a day or two. LOL

[awang8]

Sweet! (Literally) But do birds like peanut butter?

[hvnlyflwr]

Yes, my parrots love peanut butter! They also love raw peanuts that I buy just for them. :)

[scoochmaroo]

They do! Parrots do anyway. And they love peanuts. A simple internet search will tell you everything you want to know about your local birds. Plus probably a whole lot more.

[The Fishfrog]

jesus do u life in london? telegraph hill?

[scoochmaroo]

Nope, I live in San Francisco.
We've got a Telegraph Hill too.
And there was a movie made about the wild parrots that live there!

[The Fishfrog]

ooo its because theres a telegraph hill right near my house in london. you can see the london eye and the hoses of parlemont from there.

[mynameisjonas]

yeah, and It is also a good source of nutrition for them.

[zjharva]

when i was a small kid, at the nature center near me, we would make pine cones covered in peanut butter then seeds

[I am in the shed!]

Good one!... but keep an eye on the local bird population - they may start to get confused and eat each other! ;-)

[chello2k9]

I'm salivating over this, peanut butter is amazingly good on warm crescent rolls so I can only image how it taste in bird form

[tinker234]

ok wow weird to watch a bird eat a bird but my freind had a hamsterer that ate it stomach clean ouut he died but brought back the memory

[Cooldeal]

I love birds with a passion. I am always enthused when bird attractions like this bring birds into our living areas. That should attract quite a good variety of them. Yum.

[poofrabbit]

I can see so many uses for this for different critters, the possibilities are endless!

[WhyHello]

Genius! I"m gunna do it with my broz rats :)

[=SMART=]

Bird-on-Bird Cannibalism !!! Haha looks really good though, great instructable

[Lorellai]

snicker!

[evil666]

coool

[Pwag]

This greatly appeals to my dark sense of humor.

[noahh]

This is fantastic, but the coat hanger concerns me. what if they eat all the way to the center and get scratched or something? I don't know much about birds, so this might not be a problem, though.

[scoochmaroo]

It's worth keeping an eye on. It would be best to use the same bread to coat more peanut butter and seeds on for a while. But once they get to eating the bread, it's probably time to replace!

[finfan7]

This is an excellent project. For an extra bit of fun hang one coated in deli turkey next to it.

[Bicycleman]

Hope you post a pic of birds feeding on it! cool instructable!

[scoochmaroo]

I would LOVE to get a pic of the parrots feeding on it. But I haven't been able to catch them in the act!

[crafty_crayons]

cooool real creative

[I_am_Canadian]

Cute! Thats actually a really cool idea... I would make a good gift.

[Weissensteinburg]

That's such a great idea!