Make Your Yard Bird Friendly

 Hello Readers. Spring has arrived and it makes me want to get outside and enjoy fresh air and all that Mother Nature has to offer. I have a little backyard that is my little piece of the earth to enjoy. I try to make it comfortable for humans and small animals. I enjoy hearing and watching the birds (And squirrels.) in the trees. I wanted to help them feel at home to enhance my backyard and make it feel more like a little patch of the great outdoors.  

Enjoy nature and welcome the birds in your yard.  

To welcome the birds I thought the most important thing to have is snacks. Bird snacks. Humans of all kinds love snacks and animals do too. Some birdseed would go a long way to bring the birds into the yard so I can watch them and hear them sing. But I did not have any bird feeders.

  

I gathered some dishware. You can go thrifting or search in your kitchen cabinets. There are usually a few items that are not used often or at all. Teapots, teacups, pie dishes, gravy boats can all be used in your yard as bird feeders and watering containers. Let me show you what I did in my yard. 

I poured some birdseed into my teapot but it isn't going to sit on a tray or a table. It was going to be up on it's side and hang it up in a tree. 

By standing the tea pot on it's side like this it makes an opening that the birds can fly into and the rim gives the birds a place to land and take some seeds.

I blocked the spout of the tea pot with some self-adhesive foam pads. I use these under vases and pottery but they work here too. I just wanted to keep the seed from spilling out of the spout when it is hung up.

These pads. (Similar here.) were easy to stick in the spout but you could also use tape or a cork. Anything to block the spout of the teapot. 

 

The seeds are all together just inviting a bird to come have lunch. The handle of the teapot makes it easy to hang on a branch of the tree. I used a shower curtain ring to connect the handle of the teapot to the tree branch. 

You can also use an S-hook like I did with this gravy boat. It is a bit smaller than the teapot but holds seed and has enough space for a bid to sit and eat.  

I also added a tea cup. It fit right on the short branch by itself. A bird can have a delicious snack here.  

 If you do not have a place to hang a feeding dish, you can use a pie pan. Set it out to invite some bird friends to come eat...

 Or drink. Water is great to put out even if you do not have any seed to share. In the heat of summer birds can be desperate for some fresh drinking water.  

If you do not have a pie dish to use, these aluminum pans are very inexpensive. I added a large stone to help weigh this pan down. I didn't want it to blow around in the breeze. 

The lantern/candle holder can be useful too. I filled mine with small fabric scraps. The birds and squirrels can grab these tiny pieces to help build a nest. The open sides of this lantern make it easy to grab pieces easily.   

I added all of these to a tree in my yard and hope to make some bird friends soon. Thanks for reading along, now go make something fun for yourself, or your backyard friends.