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Do any flutherites feed birds in the winter? I'm looking for some new suet recipes.

Asked by Midnighttoker2 (154points) December 20th, 2009

Does anyone have any good suet recipes to attract a wider variety of birds? Also,i have some Pileated Woodpeckers in the area. Will they come to a feeder? What might attract them?

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Sebulba's avatar

the birds feed me during winter time

ucme's avatar

What’s good for Mary Poppins.

scotsbloke's avatar

I just buy the stuff from the pet store. But I feed the ikkle boids all year round!

Kayak8's avatar

I have made my own in the past and like @scotsbloke I pretty much just buy them these days—although the cost savings from making your own is significant (about ⅓ the price). Here are a few sites with recipes: link and link and link

The third link above is for a recipe that actually attracted red bellied woodpeckers. While we have pilleated woodpeckers in my state, I have never seen any near my house and I have never tried to attract them.

ccrow's avatar

I buy the chunks of suet & render it, then mix in sunflower chips. I pour it in the plastic containers I’ve saved from the commercial suet cakes. Sometimes mix in nuts, but usually don’t. I have had red-bellied woodpeckers come to it but they seem to prefer the higher one off my deck railing to the one on my feeder post in the yard. I have pileated woodpeckers here often but they have never come to the feeding station. They just go on the trees.

lucillelucillelucille's avatar

I do :)
1c crunchy peanut butter
1c lard
1c birdseed
½ c sugar
1 c cornmeal or flour
2 c oats-you can also add dried fruit to it if you want.Heat and mix in a pan ,then pack into molds.I use small plastic bowls,and make the cakes about an inch thick.Then freeze and use as needed.I put mine in a suet cage.I have been getting woodpeckers,nuthatches and chickadees so far :)

75movies's avatar

No way. They already shit all over my deck during the summer.

Bobgardenguy's avatar

Get them in the store the birds seem to love them. Square suet and a bag of seed.

28lorelei's avatar

I just buy suet from a store. No pileated woodpeckers in the area, but it attracts downy woodpeckers and hairy woodpeckers.

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