Suet is a welcome addition to any feeding station and will attract a greater variety of birds to your backyard. Birds have a high metabolic rate and suet is the most concentrated source of energy you can offer. Suet has traditionally been presented during cold months when the insects birds are accustomed to eating are not very plentiful. However, suet can be offered year-round. The birds that visit your suet feeder will reward you by eating the insects in your garden during spring and summer!
Common birds that eat suet include:
Wrens
Woodpeckers
Chickadees
Mockingbirds
Titmice
Northern Flickers
Warblers
Nuthatches
Robins
Starlings
and even Bluebirds!
Suet is most commonly offered in wire cages but can also be offered crumbled on a platform feeder or smeared on the bark of a tree. Since most of the birds that eat suet cling to trees looking for insects, it is a good idea to hang your feeder close to a tree’s trunk about 5 or 6 feet from the ground. If you need to deter Starlings from eating an entire cake of suet in one setting, try our Upside Down Suet Feeder. Clinging birds are generally not bothered by having to feed upside down but the Starlings sure don’t like it!
Wild Class offers several types of suet feeders and suet cakes to delight your suet-seeking birds!
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