Comments on: Soda bottle outdoor bird feeder converter kit

By: hyrcan

hyrcan — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:21:18 +0000

Innovative? You’ve got to be kidding me.

One man’s unitasker is another man’s “innovation” I guess.

You want green? Don’t by a manufactured component when a couple wooden dowels (or some sticks off the ground) and some twine will do the trick.

Or better yet. Here’s an idea.

Don’t by plastic bottles.

By: Patty

Patty — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 03:01:03 +0000

I’ve got to say that is pretty innovative, very resourceful. But I’ll also admit that with birdfeeders being so cheap nowadays its hard to get the motivation to make your own. Plus I’m so into hummingbirds and I haven’t found a homemade hummmingbird feeder just yet! I’ll stick to http://www.birdfeeders.com till then but if anyone has any suggestions please post !

By: meredith

meredith — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:43:46 +0000

I have this also. The Nnice thing about it is the fact that I was able to ditch the bottle once the squirrels took a liking to chewing the bottle. I was able to recycle the bottle, use another without having to replace the whole feeder.

I found mine at a local “Birds Unlimited”.

By: Jen

Jen — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:55:43 +0000

I have this and used it until the squirrels chewed and destroyed the bottle. I’m sticking with sturdier birdfeeders and recycling my bottles.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:51:54 +0000

‘Have you spotted any simple, uncluttered, green designs recently? Tell us about them in the comments.’

Might I offer this as a submission?:

http://www.junkk.com/junkkdeta.....tsapf=1828

It’s called the RE:tie and is basically a redesign of a tamper-evident bottle closure that ends up giving you a free cable tie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XisE-UCEC4U

http://junkk.blogspot.com/2008.....cited.html

We have been evolving it, and in its new incarnation it confers extra disability-aid advantages to those with poor grip.

There are some other ways to reuse on http://www.junkk.com as well for those seeking to, or be inspired in turning re:fuse into re:sources.

As we like to say.. ‘rubbish needn’t be a dirty word’.

By: Rebecca (seven2seven8)

Rebecca (seven2seven8) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:20:06 +0000

I just wrote about a neat product I found this weekend on my little bloggy-blog. I’m so excited about it!

It is a set of perpetual calendar magnets by Lone Elm Studios, and I have mine on my fridge (instead of the perpetual board). No paper to recycle, and I can actually reuse post-its (even if the sticky wears off, HEY, I HAVE A MAGNET).

Am loving it! I found it in a local boutique, but you can also find it here:
http://www.onecoast.com/produc.....P_ID=80106

By: Marie | green your apartment

Marie | green your apartment — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:59:13 +0000

I know most commenters aren’t liking this but I thought it was cool as the 2-liter bird feeders I made were not presentable enough that I could hang them from my apartment balcony and not get cited for an “unseemly decoration”. This, however, I could do.

By: Red Coyote Hunter

Red Coyote Hunter — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:01:53 +0000

Does not this belong on your Wednesday post? Single use, bird feeder? Come on.

By: Erin Doland

Erin Doland — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:51:12 +0000

@PK — It’s fixed now, but that was really weird. The link worked fine for most of the day — then POOF! Bizarre.

By: PrarieGal

PrarieGal — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:27:30 +0000

Yes it’s a unitasker, but I’m not sure what you want your bird feeder to double as? Plus if it’s always in use, it’s always in your tree and isn’t creating clutter.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obi.....tterer-20/

By: PK

PK — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:02:41 +0000

Link in the first paragraph to amazon is teh broked. Which is a damned shame, since I’d love to pick one of these up.

By: Loren

Loren — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:59:11 +0000

Sorry THIS post.
http://www.re-nest.com/re-nest.....ows-100638

By: Loren

Loren — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:58:33 +0000

There are some birds that do not migrate. Where I live Cardinals, Blue-Jays and Goldfinches stay all through the winter. The bird feeder gets a lot more attention in the winter than when it is warm outside and food is more plentiful.

I saw this post on Apartment Therapy this morning, it recycles water bottles into window planters, I’d like to try something similar in my kitchen.

By: michelle

michelle — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:42:40 +0000

yeah, this looks like a unitasker to me. I like that it’s good for the environment but I honestly wouldn’t want all the bird droppings that the bird feeder would cause around my home. alternatively, there are people taking capri sun and coffee bag pouches that can’t be recycled and turning them into tote bags: http://www.vcstar.com/news/200.....ing-funky/
I think that’s a better way to keep something out of a landfill. . .

By: L.

L. — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:29:57 +0000

What Tom said.

By: tabatha

tabatha — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:24:28 +0000

don’t the birds fly south for the winter?

By: Celeste

Celeste — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:09:28 +0000

This has been out there for a long time. I like it because you are supposed to take apart and clean the whole birdfeeder every year, and I always thought the vinyl tubes were hard to get clean. This model lets you just recycle the plastic and start fresh. You could even change it out this way during the year.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:49:57 +0000

For a moment I thought it was Wednesday. This unitasker seems like clutter to me. We learned to make 2 liter bottles into bird feeders in like 2nd grade. You don’t need any special tools. Just cut off the top and tie it back around with some wire to form a bowl shape. Viola.

A quick search for ’soda bottle bird feeder’ will yield many results: http://www.a-home-for-wild-bir.....eeder.html

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:42:44 +0000

Wow…so simple, yet so cool. I’m impressed.