I really enjoy feeding the birds but have no money for suet cakes. Instead, I take 2 pieces of wheat bread, spread with peanut butter on both sides and a little in the middle to hold the bread together, and put it in the suet holder. The birds love it, and it is fairly cheap. They see us coming with the bread and wait for us to put it in the suet holder. It's gone in just a few minutes! They especially love it now that they are raising babies.
By Rosa
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Be sure to go light on the peanut butter. It is gooey enough to clog their little nostrils which are tiny holes on the top of their beaks.
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Try feeding your robins, bluebirds, and Brown Thrashers ... pretty much all feeder birds this recipe in a mixer - 4 cups cracked sunflower seed, 4 cups yellow corn meal, 1/2 of a 40 oz peanut butter jar or 20 oz. (heated in the microwave makes it easy to pour), heat vegetable shortening and pour in enough to make either one big ball or about 12 baseball size balls to feed bluebirds as well as almost all other birds. Even a couple of robins eat multiple times a day. Because of the peanut butter and vegetable shortening, the ball is somewhat waterproof and lasts about a week.
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