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Bird food

#1
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4/12/09 at 8:16am
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  • Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
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I'm looking for inexpensive, homemade bird food recipes.  Any suggestions?

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#2
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4/14/09 at 9:29am
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  • Location: San Francisco Bay Area
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What kind are birds are you feeding?  I found this list on A Home For Wild Birds for types of household foods and the types of birds that are attracted to them:

 

Bread Products Wrens, mocking birds, thrashers, sparrows, warblers, tanagers, titmice, towhees, creepers, robins, blackbirds, kinglets, cardinals, grosbeaks, buntings, chickadees, bluebirds, thrushes
Suet (rendered from beef fat) Woodpeckers, wrens, warblers, tanagers, nuthatch, creepers, chickadees, orioles, titmice, mockingbirds, cardinals, goldfinches, bluebirds, grosbeaks, buntings
Peanuts and peanut butter Towhees, goldfinches, cardinals, chickadees, wrens, sparrows, titmice, grosbeaks, buntings, juncos
Berries Wax wings, robins, bluebirds, thrushes
Raisins and currants Wax wings, orioles, robins, bluebirds, thrushes
Nuts Creepers, towhees, juncos, thrashes, mockingbirds, warblers, woodpeckers
Apples Wax wings, mockingbirds, thrashers, wrens, cardinals, grosbeaks, buntings
Fruit Tanagers, orioles, woodpeckers, mockingbirds, thrashers, warblers, cardinals, grosbeaks, buntings, goldfinches, finches
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#3
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4/14/09 at 9:50am
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  • Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
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We have a variety of birds in southwest Ohio.  I enjoy viewing all kinds.  We have woodpeckers, sparrows, cardinals, bluebirds, robins, goldfinches, wrens, orioles, and no doubt several other species.  Thanks for the info, Stins.  I'd love to get a variety of feed out there.


Edited by captaint - 4/14/2009 at 05:12 pm GMT
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4/14/09 at 1:16pm
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  • Location: SF Bay Area
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Back when I was a kid, we would make those pine cone bird feeders in school. There are the basic kinds where you just slather some peanut butter on a pine cone and hang it on a string, but I think you can also make more of a paste with peanut butter, nuts, and bread pieces/crumbs ground together in a food processor or blender. Then you can take that and put it on the pine cone or I think even make it into a "bird food cake."

 

I'd recommend chopping the nuts pretty finely as some of the smaller birds could get greedy and get some nuts stuck in their throats. Might as well help 'em out a bit!

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