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Bird Suet
Bird Suet is a high energy food made from
animal fat (hard fat surrounding beef kidneys) and is particularly attractive to
woodpeckers.
Bird Suet feeders are mesh containers
which hold suet blocks and allows "clinging" birds to feed through holes. The
wire cages helps keeps out squirrels and raccoons.
If starlings are a problem at your
suet feeder, discourage them by using a suet feeder with access only from the
bottom or which requires birds to hang upside down. Starlings are reluctant to
perch upside down.
Suet can go rancid, especially in hot
weather, so during the summer months do not offer suet from the butcher. The
commercially produced suet cakes are processed in such a way to help prevent the
suet from melting and going rancid.
We like
Stokes High Energy Bird Suet because of its easy-open, no-mess packaging and melt
resistant formula. It is also fortified with calcium for egg-shell and bone
development.

And if
you have a problem with squirrels, then here is a good
Squirrel-proof Suet Feeder to keep squirrels from stealing!
Types of
birds attracted to suet:
Black-capped and other Chickadees, White-breasted & Red-breasted Nuthatches,
Tufted Titmice, Downy & Hairy Woodpeckers, Red-bellied Woodpeckers,
Creepers, Cardinals, Wrens
Note: We use
eBirdseed.com
for our wild bird food source because they have free, fast shipping, a
large, high-quality selection of seed and have superb customer service (when I
had a question one of the owners, Gordon, responded to my email in minutes).
In
addition, eBirdseed.com works directly with farmers, grower
co-ops and seed processors to deliver the freshest and most nutritious
bird seed. This isn't the cheap seed at your local discount store that been
sitting in a warehouse, has lost most of its nutritional value and is full of
"filler" seed that birds don't like.
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