{"id":22367,"date":"2026-05-07T15:59:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T14:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=22367"},"modified":"2026-05-19T16:15:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T15:15:20","slug":"daily_4082_-_sprucing_up_the_bird_feeder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2026\/05\/07\/daily_4082_-_sprucing_up_the_bird_feeder\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 4082 – sprucing up the bird feeder"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I tried to figure out when we added this particular feeder to our setup, but couldn’t find any old photos of it. What surprised me was the number of different feeders we’ve gone through throughout the years. Generally upgrading towards larger, sturdier ones.<\/p>\n

This one is far from pristine but still good enough, after a bit of freshening up. I re-glued the stabilizing block inside the ridge of the roof, glued and re-stapled it at the old break, and repainted all of it.<\/p>\n

My go-to paint for small random jobs where the quality of the paint doesn’t matter much is Panduro’s “hobby paint”. It comes in conveniently small jars, is easy to use, and works on most surfaces. Technically for indoor use, but eh, I won’t be sad if the paint doesn’t last me ten years due to weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I tried to figure out when we added this particular feeder to our setup, but couldn’t find any old photos of it. What surprised me was the number of different feeders we’ve gone through throughout the years. Generally upgrading towards larger, sturdier ones. This one is far from pristine but still good enough, after a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[767,18,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts-2","category-dailies","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22368,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22367\/revisions\/22368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}