Discover suet ball alternatives and why you should avoid the cheap suet balls on the market. The filler ingredients in these ...

The Red-Bellied Woodpecker is a common visitor at backyard feeders, but do you know how to distinguish male from female? This video shows a great comparison of the two. Notice that the red on the head ...

Dozens of birds love suet, especially woodpeckers. But backyard bird hosts face a confusing array of packaged suet combos. How to choose? In short, it's not by price. True suet is the fat that ...

Often thought of as a wintertime bird food, suet can also be fed with surprising results even in warm months. Use suet to attract Western tanagers, grosbeaks, woodpeckers (and their babies), bushtits ...

This fiery hot pepper seed blend is packed with nutrition for all of your backyard birds, but the critters you want to keep at bay, like squirrels, raccoons, and bears, will find the hot pepper ...

Summer marches on, with fledglings showing up at feeders searching for high fat foods to bulk up for the approaching winter or to migrate south. Suet is a high-energy, pure-fat substance that birds ...

Bird feed is all well and good, but sometimes you want to give the backyard birds a different treat or attract a type of bird to your feeder. Enter suet. Particularly good for birds in the fall and ...

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“Feeding Wild Birds in America” by Paul J. Baicich, Margaret A. Barker and Carrol L. Henderson explains how the practice of bird feeding has evolved over the nineteenth and twenty-first century.

Last week, I reviewed the different seeds to consider when feeding wild birds. Suet is another important food to offer, especially as the nights get colder. Here I will review, again, the basics of ...

Winters, whether mild or harsh, are challenging times for birds. Food is in shorter supply just when birds need lots of energy to help them survive the cold. That's where suet feeders come in. Birds ...