pepper suet

The easiest way to put bird suet out for your backyard birds is to use a suet cake. These cakes, about the size of a sandwich, fit nicely into most suet feeders. The come in a variety of “flavors” to attract different species of birds. Cherry, blueberry, and the everpopular “insect” flavors of bird suet cakes are some of the favorites.

Suet is a great food for birds (or squirrels at times) that will help in the wintertime to keep them well fed and warm. Suet balls can be used without a feeder, or they can be served up with a suet ball feeder.

Suet bird feeders are a great resource for the backyard birder who is wanting to help their birds get through the tough winter months. Suet is a high energy food source, and keeps well in the cold of winter, making it ideal for helping birds whose warm weather sources of food are hard to find in wintertime.

Squirrel proofing a bird feeder can be a daunting task. There are a whole host of squirrel proof feeder designs around these days, but the common theme seems to be a mechanical blocking mechanism of some sort.  Pepper bird suet feeders take a different approach that works surprisingly well.