Make Your Own Bird Food

Today is , have you fed your birds today?

 

Sure you can buy wild bird food, but there are hundreds of family handed-down homemade bird food recipes you can easily make on your own.

Many of these bird food recipes include ingredients you likely have laying around the house.

Most birds will eat many things.
The recipes listed for each bird are some of their preferred food selections.

The information within this web site is free for your use.  Enjoy!

 

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(Easy Suet)

Great project for 4 year old or older - with supervision

Complexity - Medium

Time to Complete -  20 minutes

Main Ingredient - Fat scraps

Needed - 1 cup of fat scraps, chopped
              1 1/2 cups cornmeal, regular grind (not coarse or fine)


NOTE: This recipe will help feed any bird that visits suet feeders. It does not have all the qualities of our more involved homemade suet, but it's still a backyard favorite.

Step 1 - Put fat and cornmeal into a deep bowl.

Step 2 - Using your hands, mix thoroughly.

Step 3 - Again, using your hands, pack the mixture together into small blocks, keeping in mind that they will need to fit into your suet feeder.

Step 4 - Freeze any easy suet that you do not intend to use right away. Be careful to keep the individual blocks separated so you can use them when needed. Try placing a small piece of wax paper in-between the individual blocks. Then you can easily take one at a time when it's time to feed your birds.


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Make Your Own Bird Food