special suet cakes

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Living in the woods, I really do not get bluebirds. They eschew everything my forest has to offer, well not exactly everything. 

In November with the help of some of the homeschool kids that come to the nature center, we made special suet cakes with vegetable shortening, peanut butter, oats, corn meal, sunflower seeds and berries gathered around the Visitor Center.

I like to use recycled yogurt containers. It makes the whole process tidier and it's easy to store them with lids on in the bottom of the fridge until they are needed. And with the temperate below freezing for yet another day, they are the spécialité du jour, visited routinely by bluebirds and the other traditional backyard feeder birds, even yellow-rumped warblers.

I also maintain a heated birdbath from Wild Birds Unlimited. That, probably more than the suet is an attraction as big as Disney. Where else are the birds going to find water when it is 20 degrees outside?

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