Upside Down Suet Bird Feeder Plans Easy to Find?

Monday, March 7th, 2011 at

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Upside Down Suet Bird Feeder Plans

looking for it and you just can’t find it. Regardless, I did find this little set of free plans for an upside suet feeder. It’s a bit late in the season to go on and on about suet feeders, but I just love them and the colorful birds they attract. If you live in the northern states and put your suet feeder into a shady area of the yard this summer, it will probably do just fine. If you live in Florida like I do, you’ll do best if you make a dense suet cake, keep it in the shade as much as possible, and check it periodically to make sure it hasn’t gotten rancid.

Suet feeders are a Godsend to the birds struggling to find food in the winter time up north. Not only does the fat keep the metabolism high in the birds keeping them warm, but it is very nourishing to them as well. Suet is solid white beef fat and you can probably get some from your butcher for little or no cost. I’ll be covering exactly how to make a suet cake in a later article, so for now

Pesky squirrel hanging upside down on a basic caged suet feeder.

Pesky Squirrel Trying to Raid a Basic Suet Feeder

just know that you can make very inexpensive suet cakes for your backyard birds.

The birds that eat suet generally eat insects or worms so the animal fat, suet, attracts them to the feeder. The colorful birds like the cardinal, the blue jay, blue birds, the woodpecker and others like the suet. The pesky little starlings do too, but they don’t

Two little bluebirds at suet bird feeder enjoying the suet cake contained within

Bluebirds at a Basic Caged Suet Feeder

like to hang upside down to eat, hence the need for the upside down suet bird feeder. The cage itself dissuades the starling as well.

The suet bird feeders are almost always a form of cage into which the suet is placed. It is this cage that seems to be the only way to keep the squirrels away. The squirrel has a very difficult time raiding the upside down suet feeders too. The picture of the squirrel on the basic suet feeder cracked me up, so I had to share it with you.

Suet cakes with peanuts or peanut butter work really well to attract the colorful birds as do suet cakes with bird seed within, or just mix it all up because they seem to love it. There are so many more

kinds of suet feeders available, lets just agree to meet again soon so I can share with you the upside down suet feeder as well as the window suet bird feeder.