Dear Tweeters,

Since I am too much of a cheese-paring skinflint to buy those cool suet blocks, I just eat a lot of bacon. After frying it up, I pour the drippings in a tin can and keep it in the fridge. When the weather turns cold, I just smear the solidified fat on a pine cone or a small log, and stick some seed in it. Lots of native birds like this, including Varied Thrushes. This method allows me to devour vast quantities of a food that nutritionists love to hate, all the while rationalizing that I am helping out native songbirds. Plus, it's on the Atkins Diet, Avian Version.



jbroadus at seanet.com wrote:
Maureen Ellis wrote:


"I've been having Song sparrows pigging out on my suet blocks this year,
too. Also saw a Fox Sparrow, Steller's Jays, Downy Woodpeckers, numerous
Black-capped Chickadees, also Chestnut-backed Chickadees, Juncoes,
hoards of Common Bushtits, and Flickers;"
Ditto here in puyallup, but this has been going on for years. I have been counting with the cornell backyard feeder watch and also have
Yellow rumped Warblers and Bewick's wrens all visit almost everyday.
I find that the Peanut Butter variety is not as popular with the STARLINGS - especially brands that have no seed (millet, etc.) whatsoever in them. This is the only kind I use now .


..Clarice Clark
Puyallup, WA. 98371
mailto:jbroadus at seanet.com




Yours truly,

Gary Bletsch

near Lyman (Skagit County), Washington

garybletsch at yahoo.com


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