Tips for Today
Calling all Pumpkins!
Autumn is here — full of all those things we love — colorful leaves, bonfires, spooky stories, cooler weather, apples, candy, football, Halloween, and all-things pumpkin.
Perhaps, and hopefully, you still grab pumpkins for your front steps, or take joy in the childhood fun of carving Jack-o’-lanterns? Grab an extra pumpkin and fashion it into a bird feeder, or use your Halloween “leftover” Jack-o’-lanterns to make one, too. Pumpkins make a strong pedestal and re-purposing the gourds into feeders is recycling at its best.
The quick guide: Cut a pumpkin in half and hollow out the seeds. Grab some sticks for perches (to push through a side of the pumpkin), and a bit of string to hang it up. All you need after that is some bird seed. Mass Audubon and the National Audubon Society both have easy-to-follow directions will some additional tips. If you’re a video/visual person, here’s the pumpkin birdfeeder “how-to” via YouTube from The National Audubon Society.