";s:4:"text";s:2305:" In the column Since You Asked in every issue of BirdWatching, Contributing Editor Julie Craves answers readers’ questions about birds and bird behavior. Just a note: These recipes are great for winter suet feeding. Excellent bird suet!
Infact, multiple studies show that wild birds usually receive as little as 25% of their daily intake from feeders, and many common birds received an even lower percentage. The cakes are a little more challenge in their holders, I think. Some packaged suet comes in no-melt varieties, but even these can spoil or become soft and foul a bird’s feathers in high heat. In my bird feeding arrangement, the birds go for this suet before they go after the small cakes.
It may be because they just land on this one and go at it. Clean your feeders regularly. This suet comes in different blends that may … Or, switch to a hummingbird feeder in summer. Keep suet in cool places. Super suet cakes and bars are easy to crumble onto bird tables without getting messy fingers, whilst our super suet fat balls are a consistent hit all round and fit nicely into suet fat ball feeders. This is especially during nesting season. There are other types of suet that you can use in summer that the birds will eat and is good for them. You can still feed suet to the birds in the summer that doesn’t melt like the winter suet would. Our Super suet recipe is fantastic for feeding birds all year round as it doesn't melt, even in summer. A common, completely untrue belief is that feeding birds in the summer will make them lazy and always on the lookout for handouts, instead of trying to seek natural food sources themselves. You may have other bird species coming in to your feeders depending on where you live. Put suet in the shade.