Bird Cake

This winter I've had a chance to feed birds after living where there weren't many winter birds.

I have up to six suet feeders going during the coldest weather and have made several batches of suet cakes. But, with warmer weather, they won't be easy to use. So, we're experimenting with a greasy cornbread, laced with birdseed. The birds love it.

When we got rain this week, the cakes took a big hit, but as long as I left the feeders alone, they managed to hold up and the birds don't care. If they nibble and some saturated birdseed cake falls to the ground, there are more birds waiting to clean it up.

I have a real scavenger batch of birds and they like old bread, pancakes or dried cake. They just eat about everything.