Peanut butter Pine Cone birdseed treat
A fun, easy activity anyone can do from all ages. Make a delicious bird treat by using pine cones, peanut butter and birdseed. These delicious bird treats are ideal for getting children involved in bird watching.
Supplies needed
Peanut butter (smooth)
Bowls (2)
Plastic knives
Bird seed (all purpose)
String (any coloured yarn)
scissors
Wax paper
Tray
Newspaper
Preparation
Put birdseed in a bowl
Put peanut butter in a bowl
Place wax paper on a tray
Place newspaper on table for easy clean-up.
Procedure - Step One
Tie your string/yarn around the top of the pine cone. Procedure - Step Two
Take your plastic knife and cover the pine cone with the peanut butter. Be sure to cover it completely and not too thick. Procedure - Step Three
Place peanut butter covered pine cone in the birdseed bowl and roll the pine cone around to cover the entire pine cone in seed. Procedure - Step Four
Take it out and gently shake the excess seed off and then place on the wax paper tray.*Repeat steps 1-4 for as many pine cones desired.
Procedure - Step Five
Find a suitable place to hang them ex. tree branches, bird feeders and enjoy watching the birds eat your delicious treat.Note: These delicious bird treats can be frozen and used at a later date. Wrap them in wax paper then place in a bag and put in the freezer. This treat can be used ALL YEAR round.
Want Some More Bird Feeding Ideas?
Jerry Baker's Backyard Bird Feeding Bonanza: 1,487 Tips, Tricks, and Treats for Attracting Your Fine-Feathered Friends (Jerry Baker's Good Gardening series)
Turning a boring backyard into a lively bird sanctuary is cheap and easy with the 93 homemade birdseed recipes featured in this valuable guide. Packed with almost 1,500 tricks and treats, this handbook reveals how to attract specific species-orioles go gaga for grape jelly, bluebirds flock to mealworms, and woodpeckers arrive in droves for corn bread-and ensure that they'll keep coming back for more. By using inexpensive materials and standard household items, bird enthusiasts can create creative tube feeders, a varmint-vanishing sauce, and a crowd-pleasing birdseed without breaking the bank. Seasonal suggestions for enticing birds year round and instructions for 24 fun and easy do-it-yourself projects are also provided along with 62 full-color bird profiles.
The Backyard Bird Feeder's Bible: The A-to-Z Guide To Feeders, Seed Mixes, Projects, And Treats (Rodale Organic Gardening Book)
Similar in layout and content to Roth!s Attracting Birds to Your Backyard (Rodale, 1998), this book is both enjoyable to browse because of its color photos, line art, and call-outs and useful as a home reference because of its alphabetical arrangement. Conveying an enormous amount of information on attracting, feeding, and observing birds, the entries vary in length from half a page to multiple pages for broad or complex topics such as the benefits of fruiting plants (trees, blueberry shrubs, strawberry plants, etc.) as a source of both food and shelter. Despite some overlap with his previous title, Roth presents enough new information, techniques, and anecdotes to make this work fun, worthwhile addition likely to be as popular as similar works by John K. Terres and Mathew Tekulsky. Recommended for public libraries."Bonnie Poquette, Shorewood P.L., WI
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Projects for the Birder's Garden: Over 100 Easy Things That You can Make to Turn Your Yard and Garden into a Bird-Friendly Haven
Experience the gratification of watching birds gobble seeds and other treats from your homemade bird feeder. Look on with delight as a mother bird tends to her babies in the protective hideaway of a birdhouse you have lovingly constructed from a dried gourd. Create a sunflower plantation, a bird teepee, a tent-style twig feeder, a pedestal birdbath. Follow the step-by-step instructions in this book, and your yard will quickly become an enticing playground, breeding ground, and feeding ground for colorful songbirds. And that's not all-there are also projects specially designed to attract beautiful hummingbirds and butterflies to your garden.
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Bird Watching With Jacob.
Our property is well treed and provides an abundance of protection for our fine feathered friends. Our bird feeders bring the birds into camera range. We will document with photographs the birds on our property. Bird Watching Books For Children.
About Birds: A Guide for Children
Various species of North American birds fly, swim and run across the pages of this picture-book field guide. for beginning birders. Lucid text provides basic information on general bird habits--"Birds may flock together"; "Birds use their bills to gather food"--while lifelike watercolors offer visual clues to their natural habitats. The crisp illustrations carefully highlight the physical markings and relative sizes of birds for easy identification in the wild. For more advanced readers, a succinct afterword repeats the illustrations in black-and-white miniature and expands the book's text with more specific data. This volume is a true treat for the ecologically minded and especially for budding ornithologists. Ages 3-8.
Beginning Birdwatcher's Book: With 48 Stickers
Easy-to-read fact-filled book helps young birdwatchers record sightings of 48 common North American birds, among them the blue jay, American crow, ruby-throated hummingbird, mourning dove, barn owl, and red-headed woodpecker. Each page includes space for sticker image of bird, plus information on size, habitat, nesting and eating habits, number and color of eggs, and range.
Backyard Birds (Peterson Field Guides® for Young Naturalists)
Grade 4-7-Field guides that offer tips on identification. Backyard Birds features types "...you are likely to see where you live"; Birds of Prey, the "...swift and often silent hunters..."; Bizarre Birds, North American birds with a unique characteristic; and Shorebirds that can be found "...near the bodies of fresh water and salt water in North America." Each guidebook includes a rather subjective selection of about 20 creatures. The organization of material is different in each title: the backyard birds are grouped by color, the raptors by size, and the bizarre birds by such characteristics as odd bills. The shorebirds are arranged by where they are likely to be seen-the air, water, ground, or grass. A two-page entry for each creature instructs readers on how to recognize it and provides a solid introduction to individual characteristics. Although the information is clear, there are some omissions. For example, three of the texts stress the importance of knowing the size of the bird as a clue to its identification but neither measurements nor range maps are included. However, bright, full-color photographs and drawings clearly indicate distinguishing features.
Red-winged Black Bird.
Invasion!!
Jacobs bird treats attracted quite a crowd today. A flock of red-winged black birds stopped by for a meal. At one point there were between twenty and thirty here. During nesting season red-winged black birds can be found in marshlands sitting on top of cattails. So needless to say it was a new experience for us to have these birds at our feeders. I guess you never know what will show up when you feed.
Rose-Breasted Grosbeak.
The rose-breasted grosbeak is 7 to 8.5 inches long. The female has coloring similar to a sparrow and can often be seen at our feeders. The male is black and white with a red V on his breast and is much more illusive to find.
We constantly hear the rose-breasted grosbeak singing even during nesting season. The colorful male often sits on the nest to incubate the eggs while the female collects food. These two odd traits make the rose-breasted grosbeak vulnerable to predators such as squirrels, jays and cowbirds. The rose-breasted grosbeaks' diet consists of fruit, seeds and insects.
Bird Watching Aides.
Nikon Action 8x40 Binocular
These 'wide view' binoculars make it easy to focus on your bird. You can easily adjust the focus with one hand for that long distance identifcation.
Coleman Bird Finder
This handy device helps you to identify birds by their song. In addition it is ideal for bringing birds closer so you can get the perfect picture.
Nikon Eagleview 8-24x25 Zoom Binoculars (Silver)
These are one of the best selling binoclars on the market. These binoculars allow you to zoom in on your bird with easy one hand operation.
Audubon Bird Call
This is a fun birding accessory for everybody. With practice you can sound just like your favorite bird.
Bushnell Image View 10x25 Roof Prism Binocular with VGA Digital Still Camera
These binoculars allow you to get close to the action and have the additional feature of allowing you to take a picture. Then download your adventures to your computer for viewing any time.
Downy Woodpecker.
The downy woodpecker is a frequent visitor to our bird feeding station. As you can see she prefers suet over the peanut butter pine cone treats. These birds are quite brave and will come to the feeder even if we are outside on the deck.
To the left is a male downy woodpecker.
We often hear the downy woodpecker drumming. This activity is commonly thought to be feeding or nest building but in fact is a warning to all other birds that they are in his territory.
Downy woodpeckers eat seeds, berries and wood-boring insects.
Paint Your Own Bird Feeder
Paint-A-Bird Feeder
Nurture your little one's artistic talents while teaching them about nature with our Paint-A-Bird Feeder! A simple coat of paint gives an instant lift to your wooden birding station. Create a special look that your feathered friends will be sure to enjoy. This set comes complete with wooden feeder with hanging chain, waterproof acrylic paints, and a paintbrush.
Blue Jay
The blue jay is one of the louder guests we have at our feeders. This bombastic visitor makes sure everyone knows he is coming with his distinct skrieching. The blue jays' loud aggresive behavior means he usually has the feeders all to himself.
While the blue jay likes Jacobs peanut butter pine cone bird treats, his size prevents him from landing on them. If he can reach the treats from a nearby perch he will dig in. If not he is just as content to eat from our suet cage or just eat seeds from another feeder.
American Robin
The robin is not known for coming to feeders simply because seeds are not their primary source of food. Robins instead prefer insects and worms. I caught this robin resting in a tree.
This is a robins' nest that fell from a tree after nesting season. It is made of string, straw, grass, bits of paper and mud and is remarkably sturdy. This photo was taken by Jacob himself. He has been practicing with the digital camera.
A few years ago Jacob found this baby blue robin egg that fell from a nest. From this young age Jacob has had an interest in birds.
Red-breasted Nuthatch.
The red-breasted nuthatch often visits Jacobs' peanut butter pine cone bird treats but has been hard to photograph. The red-breasted nuthatchs' habit of grabbing a seed and then flying off to eat it meant having to be quick with the camera. We persisted however, and finally got some shots.
The red-breasted nuthatch has the unusual trait of moving down a tree head first or upside down. It is able to get food missed by woodpeckers. Woodpeckers move up the tree head first. The red-breasted nuthatch likes to eat seeds and insects. Red-eye Vireo
Watch Out For That Window!!!
Sometimes when bird watching the action can get closer than you expect. Recently one morning Jacobs breakfast was interupted by a thud. It seems that this red-eye vireo left one of our bird feeding stations and flew into our bay window. The bird was left laying on the ground stunned. My husband gently picked the bird up to get him out of harms way until he regained his senses. Shortly after the video clip below was taken, the red-eye vireo flew off into the bush. Red-eye Vireo
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Build Your Own Bird House
Build & Paint a Bird House
Create an attractive bird House that your feathered friends will be sure to enjoy with our Build & Paint a Birdhouse. This kit comes with everything you need to build and paint your birdhouse. Includes pre-cut wood pieces, nails, glue, hooks, hanging chain, four colors of acrylic paint, paintbrush, and building instructions. For ages 8 and up.
We Have Thieves!
Birds are not the only creatures that love Jacobs' peanut butter pine cone bird treats. For a while we were wondering where the pine cones were going. They would just disappear. It turns out the culprits were squirrels.
Red squirrels and black squirrels alike love the peanut butter pine cone bird treats. The bird treats are of course ideal food for squirrels. Seeds are a large part of a squirrels diet and they crave peanut butter for its' high energy.
Learn More About Science and Nature.
Great Sites To Help Educate Children.
- Easy Fun School
- An interesting and informative article on bird watching with children.
Jacob Would Love To Hear What You Think.
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Rajays
Oh Wow! Insightful, personal touch, unique info, excellent readability layout and product placements. This is an excellent example of a great lens! And I like the peanut butter pine cone birdseed treat too. :) Posted February 21, 2008 |
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N376
Exceptional! Posted February 20, 2008 |
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WebBizGirl
This is a wonderful lens! It deserves the highest rating. Please come visit my lense and rate it! Thanks! /www.squidoo.com/birdwatchingforrelaxation Posted February 03, 2008 |
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JJ37
Five stars! Come visit my lens, Create a Backyard Habitat - a Hobby for the Whole Family, to see how our family helps nature! Our bird feeder photos will be added soon! Oh - please don't call the squirrels "thieves" - they need to be fed too! Posted October 29, 2007 |
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DogWhisperWoman
5* My friends bird liked drinking water out of a glass from time to time. Dog Whisper Woman Posted October 05, 2007 |
