If you're making suet to attract birds to your yard, you might be tempted to use bacon grease. But while it's delicious, is ...

So, plain suet is preferable among suet-loving birds and less desirable to less desirable birds. Suet cakes should include a high percentage of fat and little or no fiber or filler Read the label.

Here's why: Birds that eat suet in winter are primarily birds that eat insects in summer; they’re not seed eaters. In addition, seed-filled cakes crumble.

Whether you have seed, suet cakes, or mealworms, you should know that there's a right way to store these perishable items.

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Suet cakes attract many different birds as well. I usually have a small water fountain going if there is an outdoors outlet. The sound of water also attracts birds. In winter that may be impractical.

Throughout the Lancaster County region, there are hands-on classes that teach things like how to make a staghorn fern wall mount and suet cakes for birds.

Suet cakes are available in many flavors and it is easily made from recipes available online. One caution when using a suet feeder: Don’t hang it once temperatures reach 80 degrees.

Most fatty suet, if kept in the shade, can be fed in temperatures below 90 degrees. Fatty suet with nuts has loads of calories, which can give a real boost to nesting birds.

As the weather begins turning colder, birds become more active around the bird feeders. Not only do they go for the birdseed, but the suet begins disappearing faster as well. Ever wonder why this ...

Here's why: Birds that eat suet in winter are primarily birds that eat insects in summer; they’re not seed eaters. In addition, seed-filled cakes crumble.