If you make a log feeder, you should add a roof to it. A garden saucer makes a good one. Here we have the big and the small one. ( photo / image / picture from Kildale's Garden )
We made a log feeder from the photo you posted previously, and it has been a great hit with both woodpeckers and sparrows. We don't have a roof, but the next one we make will, since I have two or three shallow plastic bowls that ought to work well. I just love your ideas and creativity (as do our birds!).
With putting out a newsletter each month and putting in an idea, I have to keep coming up with things.
Long may you manage to keep coming up with things Kildale. We all appreciate your posts and photographs and many of us have followed your lead when it comes to feeding birds.
I have had one for many years, my husband made mine and I have store bought but the store bought seem to have such large holes in them. I have some cedar posts that I have my husband drill in and we fill those too.
The easy way to add the food is with an apple corer like I show in our nature site. Drill the holes in the log a little bigger than the corer. Then just press it into your mix and push te pellets into the holes. ( photo / image / picture from Kildale's Garden )
I will have to make our birds some of those. The apple corer would work on the blocks of suet I get at the meat market. Then more birds could get a treat and not have to wait in line at my current suet feeder.
