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That female cardinal looks like she belongs in the...

2006-05-22T10:54:00.000-05:00

That female cardinal looks like she belongs in the Conehead family! Thanks for the reprint of the birdie crack recipe

Thanks for the recipe! I'm a little concerned that...

2006-05-21T20:04:00.000-05:00

Thanks for the recipe! I'm a little concerned that, in my suburban location, I'll be feeding mostly squirrels, house sparrows and starlings, but I'll give it a shot.

Fantastic photographs and story. Our feeders have ...

2006-05-21T11:41:00.000-05:00

Fantastic photographs and story. Our feeders have been especially busy too. I hadn't thought about the influence of the gray skies on the bird behaviors. Thanks for the clue. We haven't ever made the suet, but it does sound like a good idea. It's so interesting, we feel as much a responsibility for the birds as we do for our cat in keeping them fed and healthy. It's a funny thing, I never thought I'd be so attached as I have become.

(I am using my real first and middle names, I am the blogger formerly known as rexroth's daughter!)

Agh, I didn't think that would work. OK. Melt 1 cu...

2006-05-21T07:39:00.000-05:00

Agh, I didn't think that would work. OK.

Melt 1 cup peanut butter
with 1 cup lard (the microwave works great). Wal-Mart sells lard in tubs.
Mix dry ingredients: 2 cups yellow cornmeal
2 cups quick oats
1 cup flour.
Stir in melted lard/peanut butter. Allow to cool, and serve crumbled in an open dish.
I make this recipe, sextupled, using the biggest lobster pot I own. You see the problem.

Yes, it's birdie crack. But I am equally addicted ...

2006-05-21T07:36:00.000-05:00

Yes, it's birdie crack. But I am equally addicted to watching the birds come in, so I think of my enslavement as honest work with good pay. There's a rationale for everything,isn't there? Mojoman, here's a post with the recipe:

http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=19608656&postID=113858951367710239

If this link doesn't work for you, give a holler and I'll put the recipe up again. Since this old post, I have taken to melting the lard and peanut butter in the microwave--much faster and cleaner--before stirring in the dry ingredients. Good luck, and go forewarned. Once you've got towhees and brown thrashers and bluebirds on your doorstep, ain't no turning back. You've made your deal at the Crossroads.

Oh, my - the addictive quality of Suet Dough. You...

2006-05-21T06:02:00.000-05:00

Oh, my - the addictive quality of Suet Dough. You didn't warn me, Julie, that I would have roving gangs of backyard birds on the prowl for this treat.

After the bluebird feeder ran dry, Mr. Bluebird showed up at the "community" platform feeder for more suet dough. That's the first time he or any bluebird has come so close to my back window.

Another bird who never comes to the feeder has started visiting for this treat - a Northern Mockingbird is now making regular trips for his/her share of the good stuff.

I had intended on cutting out this delicacy once normal weather returns, and I'm now out of ingredients to make a new batch. Yet, I'm terrified of running out. There are more of them than there is of me, and I'm not sure what will happen if they organize and hold me hostage, demanding their daily fix!

HELP!
signed,
- Slave to the Backyard Bird Mob

don't you love how wrens will nest in anything tha...

2006-05-20T20:20:00.000-05:00

don't you love how wrens will nest in anything that's sitting still?

Our wrens get unruly when the suet feeder is empty.

Is that a female cardinal or a pyrulloxia? (sp) I have never seen one.

Love all your pics of babies!

2006-05-19T22:05:00.000-05:00

Love all your pics of babies!

Hi Julie,Same cold, wet weather here in Lost Cove....

2006-05-19T19:14:00.000-05:00

Hi Julie,

Same cold, wet weather here in Lost Cove. I have been going through tons of a peanut butter-lard-oatmeal-cornmeal "bar" that I make and put in our suet feeders, plus mealworms, of course. We've had pileated woodpeckers regularly at these feeders, as well as red-bellies and downies, brown thrashers, towhees, blue jays, chickadees, titmice, cardinals, etc. Our bluebirds in the pasture box fledged this afternoon -- which was actually sunny and in the 60's for a few hours, but by suppertime, we had tremendous wind, rain, and it was COLD again! Take care, Connie

Amazing birds and amazing photos! Do you make the ...

2006-05-19T19:10:00.000-05:00

Amazing birds and amazing photos! Do you make the suet dough? How? Do squirrels and other critters get into it?

Dear Kathi, What a delight to hear from someone as...

2006-05-19T18:31:00.000-05:00

Dear Kathi,

What a delight to hear from someone as hopelessly tuned in to her yard birds as I am! I'm sure the suet dough is upping baby survival in cold, wet weather.
Unfortunately, what I know about crayfish you could put in an overturned thimble. Dave McShaffrey, are you out there?

Luckily, I have finally gotten my bluebirds onto m...

2006-05-19T18:00:00.000-05:00

Luckily, I have finally gotten my bluebirds onto mealworms and Zick's Famous Suet Dough. I am convinced that supplemental feeding has helped make a success of my first bluebird "6-pack." Two days ago, I saw Papa and 3 of the fledglings, and today when I came home from work, the bluebird feeder was empty of both mealworms and suet dough.

When the weather turned colder, I upped the amount of suet dough I was feeding, and it has been appreciated. While I put most of it in an open platform feeder for all to share, I also put some in a special bluebird feeder, with Plexiglas sides and 1.5 inch round holes in each of the wooden ends, to protect the goodies from Common Grackles. My open-sided feeder attracts these big guys above all others, but I also get Northern Cardinals, Red-bellied and Downy Woodpeckers, Blue Jays, and Carolina Chickadees here.

The Carolina Chickadee has a clutch of 4 babies in one of my nest boxes (Surprise! I didn't even know there was a nest started) and a House Wren has 7 eggs in a modified gourd, though I haven't seen her come to the feeder. The Tree Swallow clutch has 4 babies and 2 unhatched eggs, but she wants her food on the wing.

So far, breeding is going well in my back yard. The only thing I am missing is a Killdeer nest. I did see an American Toad this week, which always makes me happy.

Julie: What do you know about terrestrial crayfish? I see their mud chimneys in a wet part of my yard every spring, but never see the critters. Are they nocturnal, or merely subterranean?

Kathi

I came here from Birdchick Blog a while back and l...

2006-05-19T14:54:00.000-05:00

I came here from Birdchick Blog a while back and love my daily dose of birds or some wonderful pictures of Chet Baker.

I'm a third generation birder, my gram starting birding when she traveled to Mexico in the late 40's and my mom has always been a fan of forced/forest marches. As a family, we birded our way across America and New Zealand. It's so cool to see birding families like mine!