Have you heard? Well, everybody knows that.....

That's right....the bird is the word!

You're singing it in your head now, aren't you...😂

January 5th: National Bird Day

Created by the Avian Welfare Coalition in 2002 to create awareness for the plights of birds, today is a day to celebrate our feathered friends. 

To honor the day, Middle and I built and painted a bird feeder!

Yesterday while the littles were napping, Momma broke out the craft sticks and hot glue gun. Since Middle's not quite to that age yet where he can be trusted with hot adhesives, I put together a simple feeder.


What Middle is great at and loves to do, is paint and our little feeder needed some sprucing up. Middle got a brand new art smock (no more wearing Momma's old running shirts!) and brushes from Santa this year, so it was the perfect project to break them in!


Doesn't he look like a proper little artist now!

Surprisingly, he didn't immediately mix all the paint together on the plate as he normally does. Maybe it was the "big kid" brush, but he took each color individually and painted the surfaces of the feeder.


And our finished product....


We picked up a suet cake to place inside. The base is open between the sticks, so we're likely to have a lot of loose seed fall out with a good gust of wind. We also have a moderately sized population of cardinals that hang around the house who will love the suet.

Today is a bit gusty (our American flag was blown out of its holder this morning!) so I'll probably hold off hanging the feeder up outside until it calms a little. I don't think our poor little structure will survive a day like today. We'll be sure to update with some pictures of it outside, and hopefully being visited by some birds with im-peck-able taste, when we're able. 

UPDATE! We hung out the feeder a few days later, and now, two weeks exactly, we've had our first feathery visitors! The pictures aren't the best, I really wasn't prepared. I just so happened to glance out the window and see them hopping in and out.





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