I saw a couple of hummingbirds in my yard the other day and I decided they needed a feeder, so I gathered a few things out of my recycle bin and fired up the glue gun.
I cut the bottom off the frosting container. This will be the base. Then I glued three pieces of straw into the base for the H-birds to get a sip.
Next I had to fill the base with glue, just leaving a well in the bottom for the food to flow to the straw. After I built up the glue, I sealed in the maraschino cherry lid with its ragged hole in the middle. Then seal in lid so that no rain water will leak down into the well.
Time to decorate! My flower petals are from a potato salad lid, but I could have also used the frosting lid. I needed some more sparkle, so I added some flattened marbles and beeds.
To hang it, I used some of the techniques from the solar lanterns, which you can see
here. Then I finished it off with a fish line net to hang it. Within hours of hanging it, I have Hummingbirds! Yayness!
