Birds are brilliant!

There are over 9,000 species in the UK – and a lot of them can do brilliant things.
There's the Golden Eagle – it has a wingspan of over 2m!
The Peregrine Falcon is the fastest bird in the world, reaching speeds of 180mph!
Or how about the Tawny Owl?

It can turn its head 270 degrees in either direction.
You'd be very lucky to see one of those from your bedroom window.

But there are plenty of brilliant birds that you can see really easily.
If you want to get up close to some birds, you have to tempt them with some bait. Read on to find out how you can make something that's just perfect – a sunflower shower feeder!
If you make one and put it up, you'll be likely to attract birds like blue tits.
It's no wonder birds love our gardens – because on average we spend £100,000,000 a year feeding them!
But you don't have to spend a fortune on a bird feeder for your feathered friends – just Do It Yourself!

You need a shower gel dispenser with a hook, some garden wire, a pencil and an elastic band.
Start by taking the lid off the shower gel dispenser.

Wash out both parts really, really thoroughly. There should be no trace or smell of shower gel.
Next, connect the garden wire to the lid.

Pop open the lid, and place the wire across the hinge…
…then close the lid to keep it in place!

Easy.
Then bend the wire around, and up on both sides, like this.
Use the pencil to bend the wire into a hook on each side.
Then ease the elastic band over both of the hooks to make a little swing that doubles as a serving dish for the sunflower seeds to fall into.
Connect the swing to the body of the shower gel dispenser, so that you have something that looks like this.
Now fill the feeder with sunflower seeds.

You can get these from any pet shop or garden centre.
The first few will fall into the tray, but when the birds come along, they'll learn to poke their beaks up into the feeder so that more seeds will fall out when they need them.
Once you've finished your sunflower shower feeder and had some birds come to visit, why not keep a log of what you've seen by printing off our bird recorder, which you can get if you click here.