(Left) Jerry Cooley helps Shawn Cooley fasten a Coca-Cola bottle to a wooden board to make a bottle bird feeder at the Cape Girardeau Conservation Center on Wednesday.
(Left) Ella Malizzi screws together two boards with the help of her brothers David and Kai Malizzi in the bird feeder workshop.
Andrew Welker blows into a Coca-Cola bottle while he waits on his sister to make the bird feeder.
Evelyn Welker works on her bird feeder's outside structure before she puts on the bottle.
Naturalist Cameron Johnston watches over two workshop attendees while they build their bird feeder on Wednesday.
David Malizzi fills up a Coca-Cola bottle with bird feed for their newly built bottle feeder.
Shawn Cooley crews two boards togethers to make the bottom of the bottle bird feeder at the Cape Girardeau Conservation Center on Wednesday.
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