How to Build a Bird Feeder

While some people are incredible with their carpentry and craft skills, for others such skills prove elusive to master. Granted, certain skills are very difficult to develop, but usually it is difficult to master a skill when that skill is needed at a very high level. Any skill can exist on a basic level as well as an advanced level. There is always a beginner level for everything and on such a basic level, the ability to access such a skill is easier to reach. Such is the case when it comes to being able to build a bird feeder.

For example, for the seriously mechanically deficient, one can build a bird feeder with a milk carton. Simply cut the milk carton in half and fill it up with bird seed and VOILA! You have a bird feeder. (Actually, if you fill the other half with bird seed, you’ll end up with two bird feeders) Of course, a milk carton bird feeder looks exceedingly cheesy. Even starving birds may decide to skip out on a free meal rather than risk having a picture taken on such a $1.98 bird feeder.

To build a bird feeder of better design would revolve around making a more unique and handcrafted bird feeder that displays an amateur signature in terms of the skill that was required to create it. This does bring about the question is how a person who is not skilled with making things out of wood could possibly build a bird feeder? Luckily, there are bird feeder kits that one could purchase and assemble. While this may not actually be considered “building” a bird cage, it is still a novel way of involving oneself in the hobby of creating a bird feeder. Then again, this way to build a bird feeder is better than not building one at all.