Kitchen episodes
Experiment with different types of fat and fillings to see what birds are attracted to your feeder.If you are making a large quantity, freeze extras for later use.Harder fats will hold their shape better in cake-type feeders; softer fats will work better in container or log feeders.Hadnt thought about feeding this way, but would be a lot cleaner than the birds throwing the seeds all over pecking through the selection to get what they want but it draws squirrels who rob everything.No seed on the ground, no squirels.Will be sending this link to my daughter who is remodeling her kitchen.I watched the Kitchen Episode on Sun.morn and recorded it for her to watch.This will be a fun winter project for my parents to do together and hopefully, it will save them some money too! They have a wide variety of beautiful birds that visit their property.This is much better than the pricey metal suet feeders.And that suet looks yummier than the storebought ones.I really like to feed the birds, especially in winter.I am lucky to have a supply of kidney suet from our butcher, although it seems that they caught on and have raised the price.The birds love it and when i put out commercial cakes, they snub them nowspoiled.I work at a wildlife hospital and will use these to do projects with some day camps.The gaps in the mesh are large enough for the birds to reach in and get the seeds, and it just keeps collapsing as the suet block gets smaller, so that it us used right up.I live in a rainy area that seldon freezes in the winter.I found that a loose feeder, like the ones made in cupcake pans and simply hung by a string, will fall apart eventually.The metal cages are ok too but once the blocks get used, they get hard to reach.The onion bag is the perfect re-purposing solution.I thought the extra protein would be helpful in the harsh winters.If I use canned berries they would be soft and and sweet and attract more birds.The cup cake method is super easy.Love the idea of the rope or twine to hang it and the sandwich bags for the right size to fill my suet feeders.If anyone knows that cooked beans would be bad for the birds, please let me know.But any natural food that wont harm a cat, mouse, chicken, wont harm a bird.and they wont eat enough salt to kill themselves, other wise the shore lines would be covered in dead birds, so salted peanuts isnt going to harm the eater.I have hung the bag in a tree and i can see it well through my window.Does anybody have any suggestions to make this better? Will I get a good variety of birds? I am doing a bird sighting project.I am sure there will be many regular visitors to the bird station feeder.At present the weather is very cold, and the birds will benefit from these homemade suet feeders.Good luck to all you avid birdwatchers.I had used the bags for well over five years without a problem.It took one incident to change my mind about using these bags.On a cold winter day, a bird had its leg tangled in he netting and could not get loose.It was a horrible sight to see and hear.Luckily, I was home and able to cut the netting to release the bird.It was so stressful for the bird and for me.Fortunately, it happened in an area that I was able to reach.We had several bags filled with suet high on tree branches that my husband hung and it would have been impossible for me to reach.If I was not home to free the bird, it would have died from the cold or exhaustion, and its leg would have definitely been broken since it was twisting and turning to free itself.I see this idea used very often and I hope everyone reconsiders using these netted bags to feed the birds.It only happened once to me and after that incident, I would not ever want to take that chance again.Use the wired cages to feed the birds.I have purchased them in dollar discount stores at times, and at the end of season in clearance at a reasonable price.Even at the full price, it is well worth the purchase since they do last a very long time.The Scotts suet blocks come in a clear plastic pan and are wrapped in cellophane.Do you just remove the wrapping and leave the suet in the pan and drop it into the cage holder or must the suet be squeezed out of the pan so birds could feed from both sides.Is it something else in the bread products besides the flour that is bad.The birds dont seem to mind eating off of the rock as they usually eat the bird seed off the ground after other birds/squirrels have scratched it out of the feeder onto the ground.
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