Keep them as simple as you want, or go all out and make up a deluxe suet treat. But you can add extra ingredients to make the cakes more appealing. You might already have them in your pantry. These suet cakes use a base recipe that only requires four easy-to-find ingredients. (I mixed this batch up on the back porch in the snow!) Plenty of commercially made suet cakes are available, but making your own means you can control the quality of the ingredients and choose your own extra additions to attract specific types of birds. For a quick and fun project, you can easily make your own suet cakes at home. (Check out Cherly’s excellent tutorial on how to render tallow.) Access to high-energy foods is especially important in the cold months when other natural food resources are scarce. Suet feeders allow birds access to quality high-fat foods, such as lard, tallow (birds easily digest animal fats) or nut butters. Most of the seeds in commercially available birdseed blends are high in fat sunflower, safflower and nyjer. ![]() Think of how quickly they move and the energy required for all that flitting about, compared to their overall size, and it’s no wonder they consistently need high-energy food sources to keep them going. With their high metabolic rates, these tiny creatures need high-fat food content. I have to tell you to put say a few inches of seeds, then nuts and finally suet pellets in clear plastic seed bird feeder does risk the bird feeder jamming, so remain cautious.Setting up suet feeders is a great way to attract birds to your backyard. However that isn't to say you can't experiment by putting all types of bird feed into one bird feeder only in which is recommended if you don't want to invest in more bird feeders - or don't have the space for too many bird feeders in the yard. You know what its better to only put wild bird food in their corresponding bird feeder to be sure of compatibility, is mix in all compatible bird feed. Suet bird feeders are not always wide gap cage feeders, whereby suet nuggets can be put in a wire mesh bird feeder in which can double up as a peanut or sunflower seed feeder.įar different to that is suet pellets are usually added to a clear plastic tube, similar to a seed bird feeder - only the port holes to feed in are less restricting to allow larger pellets to be pulled out by feeding birds. How that works is throwing bird seeds or dried mealworms on the ground for ground eating birds only - with a mix of bird feed off the ground essential.īenefit to all that is birds who struggle or are incompatible at bird feeders have an opportunity to feed in your yard.Ĭage bird feeders are in fact made in steel wiring, covered in a soft all-weather plastic coating so its safer for birds to come into contact with. If in doubt, for most people there's always an option to serve up wild bird food outside of bird feeders entirely. Suet pellets can indeed go in what appears to be a seed bird feeder, only the port holes to feed at are more accessible for pellets. Where it can get complicated is all the suet bird feeders available if its a wide gap bird feeder than it can hold suet cakes if its more flat, or suet fat balls if its long and rounded. Steel mesh wire bird feeders used to be reserved for specialist unsalted wild bird peanuts - now you can use it to hold sunflower seeds, suet nuggets or dried mealworms.Īlthough dried or live mealworms should be offered to insect-eating birds on top of a bird feeder dish or a similar platform bird feeder. ![]() Inside what is clear window plastic tube you can put what is promoted as wild bird seeds in which consist of many ingredients other than seeds, which is compatible with the port holes where birds poke their beaks in to feed. What you put in a bird feeder can only be the matching bird feed that the bird feeder is designed to be used with.
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