Step 5: Setting and Hanging Your Bird Feeder After the pinecone is thoroughly coated with birdseed, place it in the refrigerator to help the peanut butter set, making it easier to handle.

Nourish avian friends with a bird feeder made out of large pinecones, peanut butter or suet, and birdseed. The wreath, pictured here as balsam, can be assembled from boughs after recycling your ...

For nut-loving birds like towhees, grackles, crows, jays, ravens, wrens and doves: Hanging Peanut Wreath Bird Feeder, $19.95 on Amazon ...

Cut shapes from stale bread with your cookie cutters. For example, use a star or driedel cookie cutter and cut the shape into the stale bread. Then spread the peanut butter and roll in the bird seed.

The peanut wreath feeder from Wild Birds Unlimited you simply load with peanuts in the shell, which is a Blue Jays favorite. They prefer to grab-and-go, taking the entire shell to a tree branch ...

The wreath I turned into a bird feeder was fashioned by tightly twisting together leafless yet green, foot-long, grape vines around a wire frame. A bent coat hanger served as the frame, and I used ...

“It's great to get the birds their nutrition but customers are going through the expense of the bird seed to watch the show,” he said. Joyce fills most feeders with a no-mess blend of seeds ...