Bird Seed Cakes For Summer

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.

Bird seed cakes for summer.

Check for deals reviews on amazon don t worry button opens a new tab heath outdoor products offer a fantastic 16 pack of suet cakes which are guaranteed to keep your feeders full for a couple of weeks at least. Insert a drinking straw to create a hole into the mixture for further hanging. 1 2 cup lard or. 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. Very berry suet cake pack of 16. Suet packs a lot of calories into an easy to eat form. Spoon seed mixture into mold packing tightly.

Spray your cookie cutters with cooking spray. Diy birdola stacker birdseed cakes. Add 2 cups of bird seed and stir until seeds are completely coated in gelatin mixture. Many suet mixtures even contain seeds insects and fruit bits that can appeal to a wide range of bird species including bluebirds woodpeckers chickadees and wrens this is an ideal food for summer birds when nesting adults need more calories to forage for their dependent chicks or to defend their nests from.

Why feed suet in summer. The squirrels like it too but now that we re offering other food for them a little ways away they. 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. She explains that it works very well in oklahoma s high summer temperatures.

We live in wisconsin where it obviously isn t quite as hot but it has held up here even in direct sun.