log feeders

[trickytree]

I have just made a couple from a log I picked up last Sunday in a local park, but was wondering about the best place to put it, and how to attach it (i.e. drill right through it and use rope, screw in a eye and hook arrangement or use chicken wire to wrap it around tree trunk etc.)

Hope this makes sense!!

I'll post pics of the fleet of woodpeckers that will soon be arriving, with the aid of your advice!!

[Lincs Yellowbelly]

I drilled a hole in the top through to the first hole, and threaded a loop of thick string through

[trickytree]

Did you then hang it from a tree??


Mine is about 3 ft long, I think I may half it before I attempt to hang it up!!

[trampas45]

i have 4. 2 have large holes for my homemade lard feed and 2 have small holes for peanuts. i hang all of them from wall brakets on my fence posts(6 foot high) using nylon cord.they are the most visited feeders in my garden.

[trickytree]

Thanks for that, just the kind of answers I was after!!

So do they spin at all?? If so, have you ever had a GSW?? I read somewhere that they prefer stationary things as they are more natural.

[trampas45]

Originally Posted by trickytree

Thanks for that, just the kind of answers I was after!!

So do they spin at all?? If so, have you ever had a GSW?? I read somewhere that they prefer stationary things as they are more natural.

plastic bird feeders move in the wind so dothe branches that they land on. i have seen them fighting to feed at them. the more they fight the more it swings. as one bird flys off another jumps on. no problems.

[Lincs Yellowbelly]

I hang mine from a tree, and the GSW do use it

[trickytree]

Originally Posted by trampas45

plastic bird feeders move in the wind so dothe branches that they land on. i have seen them fighting to feed at them. the more they fight the more it swings. as one bird flys off another jumps on. no problems.

I dont think you understood what I was asking - I was talking about would a GSW use the log feeder if it was swinging about, but it sounds like they do from Yellowbelly.

Cheers all!!

[MagpieMick]

Drill a hole up through the base with a flat butterfly bit 25mm to a depth of the bit ....Then a length of copper tube 22mm as per plumbing say 4 to 6 feet long drive this into the ground about a foot deep .... Then lift the log and slot together with the pre-drilled hole..

Most of my feeders are this way with a small bin inverted .....Squirrell proof !!!

Mick...

[nightshade]

My first logs were just laid on the lawn for a Green Woodpecker,later
I fitted a large screw in eye and hung it from a Rowan,clear of the ivy,
for a Nuthatch that appeared in the garden for a short while.A lot of birds liked this including Greater and Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers.
The ground logs also attract insects which in turn attract allsorts of birds
a small heap of baited bark mulch gives Blackbirds a field day