These commercial suet cakes seem very popular (to the birds, that is) all year on my feeders--the downy and the red-headed woodpeckers, the brown thrashers, the bluebirds, they're all only to be found on the suet cakes. I'd like to keep using them, but I'm now checking to be sure I'm not harming the birds while attracting them to the feeder.
I'm just back from the store where I found 'no melt' suet cakes, labeled for all season use. Checked the ends of the other style cake in the shady feeder, and it doesn't smell rancid after ~6 days (and it's almost gone). The no-melt cake went in beside about a tablespoon of the melted cake on the other feeder, but the thrasher and the bluebird are going for the melted remnants. Those will be gone soon, and I'll see how the no-melt cake does.
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Date: 2007-08-11 06:59 pm (UTC)I'm just back from the store where I found 'no melt' suet cakes, labeled for all season use. Checked the ends of the other style cake in the shady feeder, and it doesn't smell rancid after ~6 days (and it's almost gone). The no-melt cake went in beside about a tablespoon of the melted cake on the other feeder, but the thrasher and the bluebird are going for the melted remnants. Those will be gone soon, and I'll see how the no-melt cake does.