During the winter months, it’s always nice to give an extra treat to the little birds that stick around to brighten up our gray days. Suet is a cold-weather goodie much appreciated by our feathered ...

Dozens of birds love suet, especially woodpeckers. But backyard bird hosts face a confusing array of packaged suet combos. How to choose? In short, it's not by price. True suet is the fat that ...

They can conserve their energy." Our grandparents made do with greasy gobs of goo. Today wild bird stores offer less-sticky options like suet cakes, suet pearls, suet kibble, suet logs, ready-to-hang ...

Suet is a high-fat, high-energy supplement relished by birds looking for scarce food sources in winter. It is readily available pre-made at commercial outlets, but you can easily make your own ...

I didn’t realize how much I missed seeing birds outside my house until they started to show up a week after I put up a feeder stand in Durham, North Carolina, where I am renting a town house for three ...

If you haven’t done it already, now’s the time to add suet to the list of entrees for your backyard fast-food service. I feed suet throughout much of the year, but it’s in fall and winter that the ...

“Feeding Wild Birds in America” by Paul J. Baicich, Margaret A. Barker and Carrol L. Henderson explains how the practice of bird feeding has evolved over the nineteenth and twenty-first century.

Not all entrees offered backyard birds are of the typical sunflower, thistle, millet, cracked corn and other seed offerings. Birds also relish side dishes, suet being the most widely utilized ...