Recycle

The chicken's self watering container bought in 2018, has been sitting in our garage for over a year after multiple failed attempts at fixing the leak. Not wanting to toss the container out, I had a light bulb moment. I cut the container in half to create two new laying boxes replacing the existing milk crate which they never used anyway.

While in recycling mode, I tried my hand at a bit of macrame - using some old beads for decoration and a old terracotta base as the plate. The new bird feeder was hung in the crepe myrtle outside the front window. 

A few days passed before we spotted the first bird to visit, a large cockatoo. The following day more cockies came to check it out and have a feed. Unfortunately their visit proved that my bird feeder was not up to cockie standard - when landing on the edge, the cockie was too heavy and would tip the plate sideward resulting in most of the seed tipping on to the ground. Eventually the plate also fell from the hanging :( Back to the drawing board.