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How-To: Tequila Bottle Hummingbird Feeder

Haley Pierson-Cox from Red-Handled Scissors is a maker of crafts, a lover of cats, an avid swearing enthusiast, a cross-stitch book author, and a general purveyor of quirk. She's also sometimes an irritable cartoon named Tiny Cranky Haley. https://www.redhandledscissors.com

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June 26th, 2014

Turn pretty glass bottles into gorgeous garden-ready gifts for your feathered friends with this tequila bottle hummingbird feeder tutorial!

Raspberry Pi Helps a Healing Bird

By Matt Richardson

Matt Richardson

Matt Richardson is a San Francisco-based creative technologist and Contributing Editor at MAKE. He’s the co-author of Getting Started with Raspberry Pi and the author of Getting Started with BeagleBone.

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July 30th, 2013November 11th, 2015 4

Jorge Rancé needed to keep an eye on a healing bird so he used Raspberry Pi to keep tabs on his progress.

Valero Doval’s Aerofauna

By katiewalkerwilson

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September 15th, 2011

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.

How-To: Papercraft Oscillating Woodpecker Toy

By Matt Mets

Matt Mets

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October 5th, 2010

Over at CRAFT, Rachel Hobson spotted the directions to make this awesome papercraft oscillating woodpecker toy.

Fulled Sweater Stuffed Tiger

By Laura Cochrane

Laura Cochrane

"To oppose something is to maintain it." –Ursula Le Guin

Currently: NEO.LIFE Alum: Instructables and MAKE

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June 24th, 2010 2

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 […]

In the Makers Market: Stoplight lens bird feeders

By makemagazineuser

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April 6th, 2010 2

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.”

Migratory birds

By Chris Connors

Chris Connors

Making things is the best way to learn about our world.

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January 10th, 2009

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 […]