Create a natural log feeder.
Making bird feeders with crisco. Step 5 let dry. Making homemade suet is just as easy as making hummingbird nectar or creating a custom birdseed mix for your backyard flock. Step 3 roll the pinecone in nut butter and spread it over the pinecone using popsicle sticks. Wrap a string or thin metal wire around a pinecone to hang.
Use cooking grease like crisco to coat the pole. Suet is the perfect bird food for the winter months when birds food sources start to dwindle. You can also coat the outside of the pinecone and then roll in some birdseed. Step 4 once covered in nut butter roll the pinecone in the birdseed.
It is also more affordable than purchasing commercial cakes bells plugs or blocks. Here s how to make suet for your backyard birds. Using smaller seeds like millet milo and nyjer will ensure that everything sticks better but mixed seed or black oil sunflower seed will work too so long as they are well attached. Create a pinecone feeder.
Lift the edges of the wax paper to move bird seed into the center and continue to roll the pine cone until it s well coated. Roll your pine cone in bird seed until it is well covered. Once the tube is mostly covered gently roll it in the birdseed. Step 2 have children choose a pine cone.
Instead place the bird feeder that you already own on a tall metal pole. Add more bird seed if necessary. Suet is essentially a solidified mix of fats which birds eat to stay warm. Suet is especially loved by nuthatches woodpeckers wrens chickadees cardinals and most insect eating birds.
Use a tray or plate to hold the bird seed a small mound should work cut a paper towel tub in half so that one tube makes two feeders carefully add nut butter or crisco to the outside of the paper towel tube. Using a nice section of log with bark still intact rig it to hang and drill some 1 inch deep holes. They ll likely slip down the pole with the greasy like substance all over their feet. If you lather on the right amount of oil squirrels will have a hard time climbing up the pole to get to the bird seed.
Step 1 put the nut butter and birdseed into separate bowls.