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Make your own birdseed-suet mix
With cooler weather, birds are on the lookout for high-energy snacks. You can help out by feeding suet.
“You don’t need anything fancy,” says Jean Haack, a naturalist with the Ledge View Nature Center, Chilton, Wis. “Birds will do fine with just chunks of beef fat placed in a net bag, like the ones that come with onions or oranges. Secure the bag high enough so dogs can’t reach.”
Homemade snacks
You can also make a birdseed-suet mix. Haack recommends slowly heating the fat until it is soft, mixing in bird seed, and then pouring the warm mixture into a container that’s the right shape for your suet feeder.
“If raccoons take a liking to your suet,” says Haack, “you may need to feed it in a wire-mesh feeder.”
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