This is a tried and true suet recipe that i found in birds and blooms extra contributed by virginia barnard.
Bird seed cakes for summer.
Add 2 cups of bird seed and stir until seeds are completely coated in gelatin mixture.
1 2 cup lard or.
So i thought all of you might want my recipe along with a couple of tips on how i make my suet so you can have birds pecking your door down and.
Our 8 best suet cakes for birds 1.
Why feed suet in summer.
Insert a drinking straw to create a hole into the mixture for further hanging.
We live in wisconsin where it obviously isn t quite as hot but it has held up here even in direct sun.
Spray your cookie cutters with cooking spray.
The squirrels like it too but now that we re offering other food for them a little ways away they.
Keep adding seeds and packing down.
But i have to tell you if i put out a store bought suet cake and one of mine at the same time the birds will go through 3 or 4 of my suet cakes before the store bought one is anywhere near gone.
Suet packs a lot of calories into an easy to eat form.
These cakes can just be made with the basic birdseed mix or you can branch out and add in some safflower seed thistle seed black oiler sunflower seeds or fruits or nuts to bring in more types of birds as the stacker is intended to be used.
Packed full of those seeds that are all specially chosen to attract the most colorful of songbirds these.
Very berry suet cake pack of 16.
Diy birdola stacker birdseed cakes.
She explains that it works very well in oklahoma s high summer temperatures.