Illustrations by Alan Batley

How to make an orange birdfeeder

Help the birds in your garden stay full this autumn with this fruity feeder.

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Jo Price

Published: October 6, 2015 at 7:57 am

Illustrations by Alan Batley

Mix lard together with birdseed until you’ve created a smooth paste.

Cut an orange in half, then remove the flesh using an ice-cream scoop.

Thread a length of string or wool through the orange skin to make two hanging loops.

Top the mixture off with grapes and raisins, then hang it up on the branch of a tree.

Jo Price

Deputy editor, BBC Wildlife Magazine

Jo Price is the deputy editor of BBC Wildlife Magazine. She trained as a journalist at Cardiff University and has been a member of the BBC Wildlife team for nine years, working in various roles. Jo commissions exciting natural history content and interviews experts for the magazine’s Wild Times section and discoverwildlife.com. She enjoys wildlife gardening to support an array of species, including a few hedgehogs: creating a hedgehog highway has resulted in the prickly mammals visiting her suburban garden to forage and hibernate. Jo spends her weekends exploring local nature reserves, Magor Marsh and RSPB Newport Wetlands, and going on countryside walks and bike rides with her family.

How to make an orange birdfeeder

Mix lard together with birdseed until you’ve created a smooth paste.

Cut an orange in half, then remove the flesh using an ice-cream scoop.

Thread a length of string or wool through the orange skin to make two hanging loops.

Top the mixture off with grapes and raisins, then hang it up on the branch of a tree.

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