How to build a bird feeder

Birds are not afraid of the cold. Hunger and lack of food destroy many birds. Wintering birds need our help!

I wanted to help the birds. I took a candy box, tied strings diagonally, hung it in the garden and put food in it. The nimble, nimble sparrows quickly found the treat and pecked off all the food. But this feeder is not convenient, it sways when there is wind and the birds are afraid to fly up.. And I shared this with my dad. We took the book and found several types of feeders. We looked at them. We chose No. 7, dad says it should be made from plywood, but we have the material. I liked this feeder because it has a roof and the birds can not only feast on food but also hide from bad weather. We made a sketch of the future feeder. And the work began to boil. My dad and I took plywood, sawed it off to a size of 30 cm by 33 cm, this will be the bottom of the feeder. Dad nailed slats of the same size along the edges of the plywood. To prevent the food from falling apart.

Next we started making the roof. I measured, and dad sawed off 4 identical posts and nailed them to the bottom of the feeder. The roof will be attached to them.

We cut out 2 identical rectangles measuring 37x22 cm from plywood, fastened them in the form of a triangle with a lath and nailed them to the posts. The feeder is ready. You can hang it in the garden and start feeding the birds.

We have studied what treats can be prepared for wintering birds.

Safe work rules:

Securely secure the workpiece when sawing.
Saw only with a serviceable, sharply sharpened saw.
Do not allow the saw to skew when sawing. Do not make sudden movements with the saw.
Do not keep your left hand close to the saw blade.
Place the saw on the workbench with the teeth facing away from you.
Do not blow away sawdust or sweep it away by hand. Use only a brush.
Work only with a working hammer with a well-fitted and wedged handle.
Do not stand behind your friend's back. working with a hammer.
Hit the head of the nail so that the direction of the blow coincides with the axis of the nail so that it does not fly out or bend.

Birds are the most numerous class of terrestrial vertebrates.

On the territory of our country, approximately 750 species from 18 orders are found - about 8.5% of the species of the world fauna.

The importance of birds in nature

The importance of birds in nature is great. Many of them feed on insects. And insects reproduce very quickly. The offspring of one fly in 5 months can reach the astronomical figure of 7,600,000,000 pieces. And the offspring of aphids can cover the entire globe with a continuous layer in a year. This doesn't happen because birds come to the rescue.

Birds of prey bring no less benefit, saving fields and meadows from rodents.

Birds carry seeds, some of them pollinate plants.

A large number of bird species are the object of commercial and sport hunting.

Poultry plays an important role in the economy: chickens, geese, ducks and others.

Summer has flown by and autumn has arrived. A difficult time is coming for the birds, food is becoming less and less, because insects are disappearing, the crops in the fields have been harvested and plowed. herbaceous plants are withering, except for rowan and viburnum there are no fruits left on the trees.. In winter, many birds would not be able to find food for themselves and could die. That is why in the fall they fly to warmer climes, where food can always be found. These birds are called migratory.

But not all birds fly away. Birds that remain for the winter are called wintering birds. These are tits, sparrows, jays, woodpeckers, crows, magpies, pigeons and other birds.

In villages live country or field sparrows, and in cities - city sparrows. They differ in behavior and plumage. The city sparrow is noisier, larger, more impudent, its plumage is modest, gray.

The village tree sparrow is more timid. Smaller in size, but more elegant than its urban counterpart. He has a white neck, black spots on his white cheeks, and a brown cap on his head.

Very voracious sparrows. To feed themselves, they fly across fields and gardens and destroy not only larvae and insects, but also damage the crop.

A sparrow builds its nest next to a person’s dwelling - under the roof of a house or barn, in a hollow tree, behind the window shutters. The sparrow is a poor builder, so its nest is simple and not beautiful.

Tits are beautiful birds, as tall as a sparrow. They have a green back, gray-blue wings, white cheeks and chest, a yellow belly, and a black cap on their head.

Tits feed only on insects in summer. In winter, they fly to human houses for help. And here they will peck at everything we give: bread crumbs, cereals, grain, pieces of lard and meat.

In early spring, the tit begins to build a nest, at this time the animals molt, so it makes a nest of wool, down and feathers. A titmouse sits in such a nest, like on a feather bed.

Tits hatch chicks twice in the spring, each time there are 10-11 eggs in the nest. When the titmouse hatches its chicks, the future father carefully looks after it: he brings food every hour. And when the chicks appear, both of them take care of them.

Bullfinch – Old Russian from the word “snow”. The bird is named so because it flies to us from the north along with the first snow. There is another interpretation of “snigir” (and this is how this word was written before) derived from the Turkic “snigg”, which means “red-breasted”. Over time, it changed to the modern spelling “bullfinch”, as this bird became popularly associated with snow. The first snowball has passed - wait for the bullfinch.

The bullfinch's breast is red, bright like the side of a ripe apple. The head looks like a black cap, the back is bluish-gray (bullfinches - females are more modestly colored).

Flying from tree to tree, bullfinches enliven the monotonous snowy whiteness with their beauty. Bullfinches live in deep and quiet coniferous forests. They make their nest on fir trees not high above the ground. The bullfinch's nest is made of thin twigs, the inside is carefully lined with grass and moss

With the onset of winter cold, bullfinches fly away from their native forests to gardens and parks, closer to people. They grow on rowan trees, maples, and viburnum bushes; they pick the berries and peck the seeds, calling to each other with a melodious whistle; Having eaten, they sit on branches and sing simple, creaky songs.

Bullfinches are leisurely flocking birds. They are very trusting and easy to catch. They get used to humans quickly and can live in a cage. But in captivity they lose their beautiful red color and turn black.

Each pack has its own leader. Having processed one tree, the flock flies to the next one. He does everything on the command of the leader: he slightly raises his wings, shows everyone, to do this he jumps on a branch, turns in different directions, a white spot is on his lower back. This is the command: “Take flight!”

The name of the bird comes from the old Russian word “klestit”, which means “to squeeze”, “squeeze”, “squeeze”.

The beak of this bird is curved crosswise, it seems to be compressed, squeezed.

The crossbill is the “northern parrot” because they skillfully climb trees, clinging to branches with their paws and crooked beaks.

For crossbills, winter is also a difficult time. But not because they need to look for food. Crossbills feed on seeds of coniferous trees, and there are many of them in winter.

It is difficult for crossbills because it is at this time of year that they have chicks. Amazing thing! In December - January there are frosts, and there is life in the crossbills nest.

Crossbills are very noticeable in the forest. As tall as a starling. Old cockerels are pink, and females are grayish-olive. Crossbills - spruce trees - are commonly found in our forests. They can be observed throughout the winter.

The crow is a symbol of dexterity, cunning, deceit, omnivorousness, and theft. In some fairy tales, the crow is a transformed woman, as well as a thunderbird (caw is associated with thunder, the sparkle of the eyes is associated with lightning).

Crows are smart birds. They claim that they can count to five, imitate the calls of other birds, and in captivity they can even learn to “talk.”

The ability to imitate human speech, and possibly longevity, contributed to the emergence of ideas about the raven as a wise bird.