How to help the birds in winter? We learn!

Harsh blizzard days cause many sedentary birds to experience the cold on their own. Unpredictable in recent times, the climate deprives birds of the necessary food, because of which the migrants throw their yearly habitable places and go to the southern latitudes to seek shelter.

Helping with children

In order to optimally improve and secure the lives of these creatures, many schools from primary schools conduct cognitive actions and seminars on the topic "How to help the birds in winter". So in the minds of a small schoolboy, a sense of responsibility, consciousness and prudence is formed.

To make the example not only easy to visualize, but also able to affect children's souls, it is worthwhile to spend several lessons with children, where the motto is "Help birds in winter!" In such thematic classes, it is possible to develop several practical, and most importantly, Creation of bird feeders.

We make feeders

How to help the birds in winter? You can make a feeder for them. There are many ideas. We will consider the most interesting. An excellent impulse for children (especially boys) will be a creative feeder made from automotive plastic headlights. Such a miracle will please not only birds, but also connoisseurs of innovative ideas. To create a feeder, you will need:

• Bright memorable headlight;
• A pallet for feeding;
• Rubber washers;
• Three strong s-shaped (can be fishing) hooks;
• Stainless steel cable.

To begin with, the car headlight (which, in fact, will be the "roof" of the feeder) must be washed and thoroughly polished. On the outer edge, you need to make three holes, equidistant from the center, so the fasteners will be reliable. The cable must be pulled through the holes (for sealing use rubber washers) and secure the pallet on it. To ensure that the "roof" of the creative feeder was reliable, the diameter of the headlamp should be at least 1.5-2 times larger than the pallet.

Such structures should be located in places with maximum viewing of the territory, so birds will control the approach of danger. This fact is especially worth considering when creating a mortise feeder. In the case of hinged the situation is easier - not every animal can reach the bird.

Feeder-garlands

How to help birds in winter, if there is no suitable material for feeders? In this case, your imagination will come to the rescue. Original and strikingly practical are the bowl-garland. To create them you need only a strong plate and fleecy hemp, and, of course, feeding - dried fruits, nuts, crackers. On hemp, you must carefully strudge all the available good (goodies for birds). You can make strings of different lengths, in order to give a garland effect.

To fix a design it is necessary on a plate stapler or simply to stretch in the prepared holes. In the center of the hemp, it is necessary to fix and bring out its edge, so that in future the product can be conveniently hooked onto a convenient branch.

What food to choose?

How and what to help birds in the winter, can tell any gardener or janitor. The main factor of help is still the food. In order for efforts not to be wasted, it is necessary to initially understand the appropriate composition of food for most living birds.

The most important source of energy for birds are small (raw!) Sunflower seeds, they can be combined with millet, sunflower seeds, pumpkin or local watermelon, corn. Another suitable boiled potatoes (you can combine with the interior fat, it has many useful substances).

Like humans, birds in the days of need for high-calorie and natural food. For example, unsalted fresh fat, cut into pieces that are optimal for the bird, will become an excellent addition to the seeds and dried fruits. And for nimble little bunnies, it can be hooked on ropes, since the craftsmen can tear it off on the fly.

How can you feed birds, and what not? Ornithologists' advice

How to help the birds in winter and not do harm in the meantime, the advice of experienced poultry farmers and specialists in ornithology will be helpful. To make biscuits, it is better to use a white wheat loaf: it is easily digested and does not turn into goiter, as it does with black bread. Also, the bird's stomach does not tolerate acidic and flavored food. Outside the competition, the above cereals remain.

Tips from skillful housewives

How to help the birds in winter? Understand the question of the tricks of the hostesses. The most striking example of this is a convenient and maximally safe feeder based on gelatin. For the creation it will be required: gelatin itself (a large bundle), a cereal mixture and warm water.

First you need to soak gelatin in the water. In the resulting solution, we gradually intercalate the cereals to form a thick, uniform mixture. Next, the gelatinous mass should be poured over the molds (air balls, cups), inserting into each thread (strong). After solidification, such products should be hung on the branches of trees.

Conclusion

The action under the motto: "Help the birds in the winter!" Will not only be useful, but also an exciting activity for children and adults.