When thinking of bird seed crafts, one image that comes to mind may be preschoolers slathering pine cones with peanut butter before coating them in bird seed – creating a sticky mess. An easier and less messy alternative would be creating a seed cake for birds instead.
Suet cakes combine seeds, nuts, fruit and millet to form nutritious birdseed for wild birds. High quality suet fat is melted down and any impurities removed before creating these ready-to-use seed cakes.
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Suet Cakes
Suet cakes are an effective way of attracting wild birds that love suet, including birds found around kidneys and loins of cattle and sheep, to their feast! Made of rendered beef suet (the hard fat found around kidneys and loins of cattle and sheep) combined with seeds, insects, fruits and nuts; these delicious treats provide birds with protein and fats needed to stay energized during winter months.
Heath Outdoor Products’ DD-15 Berry Blast Suet Cake provides woodpeckers and nuthatches alike with nourishment from high-quality suet, while the inviting lure of berries ensures this high-energy blend has an extremely low melting point and will satisfy their hunger for sustenance. Bluebirds, Cardinals, and Robins alike will love this tasty bird treat!
Make homemade suet cakes to attract different birds at an economical cost while customizing it with your preferred add-ins. Just ensure to use quality no-melt suet dough like this one that offers nature’s best ingredients like sunflower meats, raw peanuts, pecans and insect Suet Kibbles (such as those provided here), along with safe low melting ingredients like PB.
Seed Blocks
These seed cakes make an easy and less messy bird feeder craft! Perfect for inviting chickadees, juncos and woodpeckers into your backyard!
Just add some seed mix into a baking tin lined with parchment or greaseproof paper, beat your egg white slightly (without creating foam), and spoon onto your seed mix. Make sure it has enough moisture so it holds together when formed, but won’t melt in the oven!
Once cool, remove and cut into pieces suitable for your feeders – these long-lasting treats won’t attract rats or squirrels!
Seed Sticks
Seed sticks are an eco-friendly promotional item that promote biodiversity. Contained within these patented items are seeds encased in material designed to support their development, enabling quick planting.
Seed sticks make for easy gifts that are ideal for corporate giveaways, events, postal drops and fundraising campaigns. Available in packs featuring wild flowers and herbs, seed sticks can be customized with full colour outer print and black inner print to meet the requirements of any campaign.
Seed sticks are biodegradable sticks used for encouraging biodiversity in your garden and nearby areas. When buried into the soil, their biodegradation releases organic matter that enriches its surroundings with vitality. Furthermore, seed sticks offer an eco-friendly alternative to traditional bird feeders by eliminating packaging that has an adverse impact on resources and waste reduction efforts.
Hanging Feeders
Birds require safety and comfort when visiting feeders, so it’s essential that they be placed near natural shelter such as trees or shrubs for added security from predators and weather, while offering shaded places where birds can wait their turn at the feeder. Evergreen trees offer year-round refuge from predators as well as quick respite when a hawk flies overhead – evergreens offer year-round safety for ground dwelling species!
Other types of feeders include hopper feeders (which resemble miniature houses with Plexiglas sides that store and disperse seed), tube feeders with multiple ports and perches to attract different species, nectar feeders for fruit-eating birds such as orioles, nectar feeders designed to attract certain types of birds such as finches or blue jays, nectar feeders that specialize in fruit nectar, and nectar feeders designed specifically to attract orioles. No matter which feeders you use, its important that it stays clean and full so as to prevent disease transmission.
