Christmas Bird Count

Make a Pinecone Bird Feeder

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An easy-to-make Pine Cone Bird Feeder. This is a simple project that even young children can help make. Download the recipe: Make A Pine Cone Feeder (PDF)

For each Pine Cone Bird Feeder you will need:

• A large, open pine cone
• 1/2 cup vegetable shortening, lard or suet
• 2 1/2 cups oats or corn meal or bird seed
• A few feet of string

Food mixture: Mix vegetable shortening, lard or suet with cornmeal or uncooked oats until well blended. Optional: add dried fruit (chopped up), chopped nuts, seeds (especially sunflower and millet), and/or suet, which are high-energy bird foods.

Additional version: roll a pinecone in creamy peanut butter, then roll to coat with birdseed.

1. Tie a few feet of string to a pinecone.
2. Cover the pinecone with the mixture.
3. Roll the pinecone in birdseed.
4. Suspend it from a tree branch outside.