Wire Nesting Material Dispenser

Use a piece of wire to make a dispenser for bird nesting materials! Bend a piece of wire around the neck of a plastic bottle, remove the coiled wire and flip the wire over to bend the remaining portion around the bottle neck to achieve the diamond shape. Use pliers to twist either end of the wire into a tight coil and shape the dispenser into the desired proportion. Thread a bead onto either end of the dispenser, bend the bottom wire tip back into the bead and twist the top wire tip into a loop for hanging. Fill the dispenser with suitable nesting materials for your neighborhood birds, such as scraps of fabric or ribbon, clumps of pet or human hair, pieces of yarn, straw, twigs, pine needles or strips of bark and hang the dispenser in your yard.