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Bird Feeder survey

rupali_k17rupali_k17 Posts: 5
edited March 2020 in Wildlife gardening
Hi all, 

I have designed an eco-Friendly (recyclable bottles), water bath, easy to maintain,weather-resistant Birdfeeder for my GCSE DT. Please find below photos. I will be really grateful if you can provide feedback.

Thanks a lot.

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    It's awful red!
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • rupali_k17rupali_k17 Posts: 5
    It can be changed to any other colour
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    A gap in the tray fence to aid cleaning would help.😁
  • rupali_k17rupali_k17 Posts: 5
    Thanks :)

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Not sure about your drainage system.  Even peanuts in a metal grid container can get mouldy here if the rain falls faster than the birds eat them.   

    Fat balls are a common feature on feeders and your system has no place for them.  Ditto fat blocks with fruits or meal worms in them.   

    Don't worry about the red.  I have standard green mesh feeders for peanuts and very bright pink metal tubes for fat balls.  The birds don't mind as much as I do.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,906
    I'm afraid my resident squirrels would make short work of the bottles used to hold the seeds/peanuts and the tray would make a convenient platform for them to land on. In theory its not a bad idea but I question its longevity.
    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    I like the idea of recycling bottles in any way possible, including your bird feeder - in my opinion that's the best part.  In a garden with no squirrels (like mine - I live in Ireland) they might last reasonably well... and of course you could replace them.  

    A couple of suggestions:  instead of budgies, could you find a photo of wild birds like chaffinches or robins?  That would be more realistic for British gardens.  Also, it appears you have used salted peanuts in your dispenser.  These are very bad for birds - they need unsalted, uncooked peanuts or they will become ill.

    Well done on your effort though.  
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    It’s not an advert ... he/she has asked for our comments on a GCSE design project. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Is it designed to sit on an aluminium folding step? Could it be placed on a pole, or suspended? I'd put in loads of drainage holes - do some experiments with how longwater takes to drain through. The budgies are confusing, yes. It's a long shot, but if you are moulding the parts, can the whole thing be made from reconstituted recycled plastic?
    Which bird food would work with this? You'd need to experiment. Any other? Maybe not.

    It wouldn't work in my garden either, re cats and squirrels. My garden would become a wood-pigeon farm. But lots of people don't have these issues in their garden, or don't mind.
  • lily6lily6 Posts: 79
    What a superb effort. You must of put many hours into the design and construction. Are you hoping for a future career in this area, if not please don't let your design and inventiveness talent disappear, you clearly have 'the eye'. Keep it up! 




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