I added a new bird feeder to my feeding station. That’s #9. I’ve been wanting to add it for a couple months. It’s a piece of tree branch from a pruning job on one of our trees. DH carved out nice quarter-sized areas around the branch and added a hook for me. I filled the holes with a peanut butter/suet mix/bird seed mix.
This is my first attempt with making any kind of recipe for bird food. We had some bacon last night and that’s waht started the whole thing. I didn’t want to just toss out the bacon fat, so I decided I’d mix up a batch of the suet/peanut butter stuff to make a log or cake out of. While I did that, though, I was thinking about how I’d like to put some in the log. DH had the misfortune of walking by at that moment and voila! I now have my log feeder. I also have a ton of the peanut butter mix left over, so I’ll also be making a cake out of it by adding more seed and corn meal until it’s thick enough to be shaped. My plan then is to put it into my other currently empty suet cage.
Now I have to wait for one of my woodpeckers or flickers to discover it, I guess. The starlings get aggressive around the suet, but I think they’ll be out of luck with this feeder.
