Swings and roundabouts here - peanut butter for humans is reasonably soft and easy to smear but that made for the birds is much harder so the first job was to stand the jar in warm water to soften it up a bit:
Next raid my collection of cones to find a nice open one:
Now for the messy job - use a knife to wedge pieces of peanut butter well in the cone and attach a length of string to hang it up:
Finally hang it under my home made log peanut butter feeder and wait to see whether there are any takers.
Why a new peanut butter feeder? Hopefully this one will be more difficult for the raiding Starlings to grab everything which is going and let the smaller birds have a chance for a high energy treat in this cold weather.
More about my peanut butter log feeder can be seen HERE.
Excellent idea. I found some salt free peanut butter in Lidl. Half the price of the bird stuff and only a bit stiffer than normal.
ReplyDeleteAdrian: I often have a browse on the Instructables site, usually the Technology section. That idea was in the Outdoor section. There is a Lidl in Mablethorpe. Years since I last shopped there. There is a new Aldi in Louth -nearer. Maybe worth me having a browse there first.
DeleteBrilliant are Lidl and Aldi. They have things I have never heard of like Quark. It is bloody vile like really sour thick yoghurt. Their veg is fine and the limited tinned stuff equally as good. Lots of stuff to try and interesting things too like gaffer tape by 3M for 99p
DeleteYou can only rely on them having stuff when it's there. Their ratchet spanners are shite Halfords are as near Snap-On as you will get. Great they are.
Genius idea John and after a few days they will get stuck in to eat I am sure.
ReplyDeleteNice for a lincolnshire lass like me to read names like Louth and Mablethorpe again.
And speaking of Louth, as a child I used to spend much of my school holidays on my Uncle's farm at Tetford in the Wolds not far from Louth.