1. Are birds attracted to
certain colours of bird
feeders when feeding ?

2. Hypothesis- what we
think
* We think the native birds will go to
red bird feeder because we read in a
book that some like red berries!

3. Test-Method
* Make 5 bird feeders exactly the same
* Paint the bird feeders red, blue,yellow,
brown and green
* Put the bird feeders near trees
*Make the nectar
*Put half a cup of nectar in three of the same
containers

4. Materials
* Paint red, yellow ,blue green and
brown
* Wood for 5 bird feeders
* Five plastic milk containers
* Super Sticky Glue Sugar/water
* 1 cup of white sugar
* 2L of hot water

5. Nectar Recipe
*Put 1 cup of white sugar and 2L of
hot water in a bowl
*Mix till sugar is dissolved
*Put nectar in the containers and
put in bird feeders

6. Results -Nectar Feeders
* Out side the classroom 1 Wax eye on the 22/8/12 at 2.20pm by the
yellow bird feeder, it ate orange berries off the tree. 1 wax eye seen by
Mrs de Verne
*Week 2 - Zoe T’s garden nothing
*Week 3 - Zoe B’s garden No birds came
*So We decided to try another place where we knew there were birds
*Park by the school: 3 days - NO birds WHY?
*Mr Bothwell who lives by the park said the birds would take a long
time to get used to the feeders.

7. New ideas to attract the
birds
*We decided to make 2 more bird feeders We made a green
one and a brown one the same colour of the trees
*We put bird seed,little bits of chip and some pieces of fat
on the big feeders as well as nectar to attract other native
birds
*We made 5 smaller bird pudding feeders out of yoghurt
pots and hung them in a tree. We painted them blue, red,
yellow green, brown same as the big feeders and put the big
feeders close to the hanging ones

8. Hypothesis
Yoghurt pot feeders
*Birds will not be so scared of smaller feeders
and will get used to them quicker than the big
feeders The pots are not as big as the Large Bird
feeders
*We think that hanging the pots in the trees will
make them more likely to go to them.

9. Method -Yoghurt pot
Hanging bird puddings
*Get 5 yoghurt pots from the green door.
*Make bird pudding and put it in the
fridge over night.
*Paint the pots each a different colour
*Red,Green, brown,yellow, blue
*Hang yoghurt pots in a tree

10. Results for the Hanging Pot
bird puddings
*On the brown pudding 1 Wax eye came at 12:35pm on 29/8/12.
*On the yellow pudding at 2:00pm on the 3/9/12 1 Wax eye came.
*On the Green pudding at 10:30am on the 4/9/12 1 Wax eye came.
*On the blue pudding at 10:30am on the 4/9/12 1 Wax eye came.
*On the red pudding at 10:30am on the 4/9/12 1 Wax eye came.
*After 1 day there were some pecked bits out of the green and brown pot
*After the weekend we checked them again and about 1/4 of the pudding was
gone from 3 of the puddings and the others had been pecked
*We checked for 3 more days and each time we saw wax eyes on one of the
pots SO THE POTS ARE WORKING
*The birds have been feeding from the big feeders too

11. Tally Chart for the Big bird
feeders
Red Yellow Blue Green Brown
22/8/12
1 Wax eye
at 2:20
23/8/12 23/8/12
1 Sparrow 1 Cafinch
at 1:25 at 8:30

12. Tally chart for puddings
pots
Red Yellow Blue Green Brown
3/9/12 4/9/12
1 Wax eye 1 Wax eye
4/9/12 4/9/12 at 2:00 at 10:30
29/8/12
1 Wax eye 1 Wax eye
1 Wax eye
at 10:30 at 10:30 7/9/12 7/9/12
at 12:35
1 Wax eye 1 Wax eye
at 10:15 at 10:15
7/9 We can see the cube in the bottom of the green pot It is empty !

13. Conclusion for bird feeders
*Our hypothesis was wrong. The birds are not attracted to
RED feeder or any particular colour.
*What we found out We found out that Birds take a long
time to get used to big new bird feeder (usually 4 days).
They don’t take very long to get used to small hanging
pudding pots.
*The wax eyes pecked from all the little feeders and also
ate seeds from the big ones when they got used to them.
They didn’t go to the red ones first and the colour didn’t
matter when they got used to them being there. The green
and brown pots were pecked at first.