How-To: Tequila Bottle Hummingbird Feeder
Turn pretty glass bottles into gorgeous garden-ready gifts for your feathered friends with this tequila bottle hummingbird feeder tutorial!
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Raspberry Pi Helps a Healing Bird
Jorge Rancé needed to keep an eye on a healing bird so he used Raspberry Pi to keep tabs on his progress.
Continue ReadingValero Doval’s Aerofauna
Put a bird on it? Or … Make it a bird! I’ve been having a lot of fun today looking through the portfolio of Spanish artist Valero Doval, whose Aerofauna make my imagination take flight.
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How-To: Papercraft Oscillating Woodpecker Toy
Over at CRAFT, Rachel Hobson spotted the directions to make this awesome papercraft oscillating woodpecker toy.
Continue ReadingFulled Sweater Stuffed Tiger
I love seeing someone transform an idea from one medium to another. That act is a form of collaboration, and it can happen across space and time, too. Face-to-face interaction is not always necessary. Take this fulled sweater stuffed tiger, by Craftster user ptarmic wumpus (Boulder, CO). Inspired by an old coloring book from the […]
Continue ReadingIn the Makers Market: Stoplight lens bird feeders
Seller Illuminated Bird makes these lovely bird feeders from the lenses that once covered traffic lights, which she carefully reclaims, cleans, polishes, and fits with brass and stainless steel hardware. The two shown here are, immediately above, “Sunshine and Spring,” and uppermost, “Bird Feeder 101.”
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Migratory birds
Goldenrod Foundation has created this nifty animated map to show how migratory birds use Plymouth Beach in Massachusetts. Check out their interactive map showing the migratory path of some of the birds that pass through Plymouth. It is fairly amazing to see that the birds seem to fly to specific regions and towns in far […]
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