Recycle Reuse old CD’s
One of my favorite summer past times is hanging flower gardens. Each spring I try to pick just the right flowers to bring color and energy to my front porch. They make me smile every time I look out the window and I can’t think of a better way to say WELCOME to my home.
For some reason the birds in my neighborhood also look forward to my hanging gardens.
Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy hearing the birds sing and watching them frolic around. They are welcome to seek refuge in any of my dozens of trees, but the hanging gardens on my front porch are not intended to be their home. Getting the birds to nest in the trees instead of my baskets is about as easy as getting Obama and Clinton to agree on who should be the Democratic presidential nominee.
I was ready to head to the store to buy those foil pin wheels to try, but now that I am focused on being green in my home office I find that thought process follows me around in everything I do. So I decided to look around and see what I might already have that would work. I did a little search on the net and found a suggestion of using an old CD.
I think I may have FINALLY found a solution.
First I tried hanging an old CD from the basket and that seem to deter some of the birds, especially the smaller ones, but the large Robin that really wanted the prime real estate got bold enough to fly in. So being determined myself, I decided to the stick 2 CD’s down in the dirt of the basket sort of making a CD tent. I think that did the trick.
I tried to photograph it above in case you are having the same bird trouble I was.
What a great way to recycle CD’s. Now the Robin can find a nice spot in a tree and we humans can enjoy the flowers in the basket.
Have a great idea on how to reuse something, please share it.
April 28th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
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