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For a high-calorie, high-protein treat that bluebirds love, try putting out a suet cake in your garden. Suet is defined as rendered beef fat, and suet cakes are a mixture of suet, seeds, fruit, and other bird-friendly mix-in. "Especially during the cooler months, suet cakes are great for keeping bluebirds healthy and fed," says Farr.
Homemade peanut butter suet dough for (blue)birds Amy's Bird Blog
1- Melt together peanut butter and lard/shortening in a microwave. In a large bowl, mix cornmeal, oats, flour, and dried fruit until well blended. Add more flour and/or cornmeal as needed to reach a crumbly consistency. 2- Allow mixture to cool and harden. 3- Scoop and roll into ยพ" balls.
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Suet and mealworms also help meet winter food needs. Water - Bluebirds need a reliable fresh water source for drinking and bathing. This is particularly important in hot weather. The bluebird diet varies somewhat between the three main species: Eastern Bluebird, Western Bluebird, and Mountain Bluebird.
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Male eastern bluebird at a large suet feeder eating nuts and berries from a hot pepper seed cake. Others in his colony are perched nearby, and often shared, with multiple birds at a time dining on the seedcake. In the wild, especially during wintertime, bluebirds will eat fruit flesh and often the seed that comes with it..
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Suet Nuggets: Instead of suet dough, you can feed bluebirds suet nuggets. Once you have prepared suet dough, cut the entire suet into square or round pieces. You can freeze them for the next time. For additional flavor, you can add currants with the mixture. Suet Shreds: Bluebirds don't always eat suet. However, if you provide suet shreds to.
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Suet is a cold-weather treat that helps birds get through the harshest times of the year. Packed with fat and protein, suet cakes can include lots of other nutritious foods like nuts, seeds, and insects.. The berry flavor attracts fruit-loving birds like bluebirds, orioles, and cardinals. This food can be offered on a platform feeder.
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Bluebirds may be more likely to try suet if it is placed in a feeder next to or mixed in with some mealworms, or during the winter (<40ยฐF or after the first freeze, when insects become inactive) or early spring. They seem to prefer it crumbled into small, pea-sized lumps. There have been reports of bluebird parents feeding suet to their nestlings.
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Commercially made suet cakes are easy and relatively inexpensive. Cakes with hulled sunflower, peanut bits, raisins, and ground up corn meal are very good. Here is a great recipe that you can make to attract bluebirds: Bluebird Suet Recipe. 1 cup lard 1 cup crunchy peanut butter 1/3 cup sugar 1 cup whole wheat flour 2 cups oatmeal 2 cups cornmeal
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Via Merchant Enclosed Bluebird Mealworm Feeder. Bluebirds like nest boxes and feeders out in the open. This bluebird feeder has a roof to offer protection from rain (which slides up for filling), clear sides for viewing, and two cups for mealworms and suet nuggets. Two side entry holes that are the perfect size for songbirds, but too small for starlings.
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How to Make Homemade Suet for Birds
Suet Cake Recipe 3 (from garden.org) 1 cup lard (no substitutions) 1 cup crunchy peanut butter; 2 cups quick-cooking oats; 2 cups cornmeal; 1 cup all-purpose flour; 1/4 cup sugar; Instructions for All Recipes. Melt the lard/fat/nut butter in a saucepan until completely liquid. Remove from heat and let sit for several minutes.
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Eastern Bluebirds mainly eat insects and berries. During the spring, summer, and fall, they can be seen surveying the ground from low perches in trees and on power lines. From here they search the ground for any insects that may be moving below. When they spot their prey, they make a dramatic slow descent, flapping their wings and tracking.
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1 cup white or whole-wheat flour. 1/3 cup sugar. Optional: chopped nuts, raisins, dried fruit, up to 1 cup. Melt lard and peanut butter in microwave, add remaining ingredients. Form into softball-sized balls. Store in freezer until ready to use, then microwave for 15-30 seconds, and crumble into dish or on platform feeder.
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3. Suet. Suet is another great food type for feeding Bluebirds. Suet is actually animal fat, mostly sourced from beef cattle and sheep, which is often processed and mixed with birdseed and other food items. Ideally, you want to use a good quality suet feeder when putting out this sort of food.
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2 cups quick cooking oats. 2 cups bird seed mix. 1 cup yellow cornmeal. 1 cup flour. Melt peanut butter and lard over low heat. In a large bowl, mix quick oats, birdseed mix, yellow cornmeal and flour. Stir melted ingredients into the dry mix. Once cool, press into molds and refrigerate. Check out the best suet feeders for winter birds.
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1. Cedar Bluebird Feeder. Even though this handsome cedar feeder was intended for serving up mealworms, it is versatile and can also be used to offer suet and other mixtures. After the feeder is installed, the plexiglass sections can be removed until the bluebirds are comfortable feeding.
