Bird Feeder and Sugar Water Recipes

Yippee - Isabella's mum is coming in to help us make bird feeders every few weeks, all through the winter so we can look after our native birds.  Jess said we also wanted to make nectar feeders to put on the posts that Craig put up for us.

Maybe we can make bird feeders this week and sugar feeders next week?

Here is an information sheet from the Otago Museum.  It has a great recipe, information and all the plans we will need. Click on the image to make it bigger.

Feed the Birds

Nathan and Jeremy were part of the Bird Feeding Team in our inquiry.  They decided that it was important to support the food chain of our native birds until we could establish some more native trees that would feed the birds.  

They searched the internet to see what our native birds needed to eat.  They searched again to find a recipe for bird feeders then organised the ingredients and parents to help.

Three lots of different feeders were made and they attracted thousands of small birds.  The team had to then identify the birds as wax-eyes or silver-eyes. To do this they checked with two different sources - Mrs Winter, the librarian and the Internet.

The issue then became - how do we attract the tui and bellbird rather than just the wax-eyes?  We will also have to keep making bird feeders throughout the whole winter to feed all the birds that had started to visit outside our class window.

Making Bird Feeders

Bird Supermarket

Bird Feeders - support their food chain for winter

Chloe's group thought that it was important to support the food chains of the native birds during the winter.

Bird feeders - empty

We came to school today to find the waxeye birds had eaten all the food. We will have to make more for the holidays.

Bird Feeders

Birds at school

Our feathered visitors

Birds at Springston

Bird Feeders for Waxeyes