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Look! A Recycled Bird Feeder

Saw this nifty bird feeder on our walk home from BART just the other day. Looks like it was made out of a plastic bottle, some twine, and a few other unidentifiable plastic parts.

When I was younger, we liked to feed birds in our backyard out of old Marie Calendar's pie tins.

Bird feeders are pretty easy to make out of recycled materials. Have you ever made one? What did you use?

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That "unidentifiable plastic part" is actually a super smart product. It is designed to screw on to the bottle in lieu of the cap. It instantly transforms a 2 litre pop bottle into a feeder!
There are a couple of versions available. This one from Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/American-Science-Surplus-WILD-FEEDER/dp/B0001CUKE8
and a window mounting version from Lee Valley Tools:
http://www.leevalley.com/garden/page.aspx?c=1&p=44208&cat=2,10719,33068

posted by ahappe on May 27th 2008 at 11:59am
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uncommon goods also carries a bottle feeder kit:

http://www.uncommongoods.com/item/item.jsp?source=family&itemId=16765

posted by syen on May 27th 2008 at 3:17pm
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Lee Valley
http://www.leevalley.com/garden/page.aspx?c=1&p=44208&cat=2,10719,33068&ap=1

posted by Hollie on May 30th 2008 at 6:56pm
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whoops! it was already posted, hehe!

posted by Hollie on May 30th 2008 at 6:58pm
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my only concern is plastic is toxic especially when sun hits it and then more off gasing.

posted by LoriSF on June 8th 2008 at 7:54am
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