Quick tip
Fat is energy birds need to survive.
Dough/bread is an empty filler that does more harm than good for birds.
Dry chunks of bread can choke birds, esp. juveniles.
A collection of information on how to make homemade suet bird feed, if anyone
is interested.
http://happybirding.org/hbforums/showthread.php?t=396
Tony Coomer
Prince William County
www.HappyBirding.org - North America Birding Forum.
--- On Sat, 12/5/09, Deapesh Misra <deapesh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Deapesh Misra <deapesh@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Va-bird] Vegetarian-Suet Feed !
To: va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Saturday, December 5, 2009, 10:51 AM
Hi,
My wife and I, have been thinking hard for a vegetarian replacement for suet.
My wife came with an idea which is working great. Here is the recipe:
* knead wheat flour and water so as to obtain a mass of dough
* mix in the bird seeds into the dough (we are currently using 'Kaytee Ultimate
Nut and Fruit Blend'.
And that is it, we put the dough out in a suet cage!
We have had the following birds eat from it so far:
* Carolina Wrens
* White Breasted Nuthatches
* Carolina Chickadees
* Downy Woodpeckers
It seems to us that one advantage of this system is that, when the dough is
still soft, smaller birds feed from it. And when it dries out and gets hard,
woodpeckers and wrens only continue to feed from it.
-Deapesh
Fairfax, VA
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