Bird Watching: Help Identify These Birds, 1 by thebestmissy

thebestmissy wrote:
The warblers should be here another month or more. The Nuthatches and Brown Creepers like it, too. Whenever I buy suet from the store, it's not nearly as popular as my homemade suet. I can hardly keep the homemade in stock. Even when the migrators leave, the Cardinals, Chickadees, Titmouse, Bluebirds, Wrens, Woodpeckers and Bluejays like it. Since I tied my feeder to a tree and attached a twig for a perch, it has gotten a lot more visitors. Here's the recipe that I make most often:
Janie May's Recipe
1 cup crunchy peanut butter
1 cup of lard (melt both for about 1 minutes in microwave).
Add

1 cup of yellow corn meal
1 cup of sugar
2 cups of instant regular flavor oatmeal (comes in packets and takes 6 packets).
Throw in some extra peanuts if you want.
When stirring this, it should get very thick and hard to stir....that means it's right! You can form it into suet blocks and feed it in suet feeders or put it in a bowl inside a bluebird feeder. I refrigerate mine and it will last forever. I usually make two batches at a time. The sugar is a good energy source for winter suet feeding.

Here's a link to more info: http://sialis.org/suet.htm