Birdfeeders

I read lots of articles about making suet holders at home, buying suet at the local butcher shop (it is the hard fat found near the beef kidneys and loins) and creating your own mixture of suet, seed, etc. I really don’t see any point in doing any of this, for ready made suet feeders are quite inexpensive and buying suet cakes that are even made not to melt on hot days is even cheaper! Woodpeckers, chickadees, titmice, nuthatches, starlings, jays and mockingbirds all love suet. If there is a way to perch near the suet, even more birds will feed from it. Suet feeders have a wonderful other use as well. In the early spring, I set up one suet feeder that I fill with short pieces of string and yarn, lint from the dryer, small twigs, etc. and watch the nest builders eagerly take my offerings.