I use a peanut suet cake and the Pine Warblers are all over it, along with the Red Bellied Woodpeckers and the occasional Tufted Titmouse and Eastern Towhee. Watching the disfunctional family drama of the Pine Warblers at the suet feeder is pretty funny...
We are located in Ocala, FL and our house shares a fence with the Marjorie Harris Carr Cross Florida Greenway, not too far from a nature preserve and a wildlife management area, all connected by protected forest. I feel pretty fortunate. It's not everywhere you can see 2-4 Towhees sneaking under the fence to steal ground throw everyday!
I have a friend that has a butcher shop and I get large chunks of suit from him and hang it in a wire cage I made. I also hang a few of the cakes,like a mix of both.
I had suet cakes out yesterday.. the starlings came with their babies & swarmed them and the cakes were totally gone in just over an hour! It was kinda cute to see them pick off bits for the babies but not so cute how fast the cakes disappeared!
I bought a pure suet cake recently. I wanted something without seeds in it to keep the house sparrows and starlings from claiming it all. Since I put it out, not a SINGLE bird has shown any interest in it. Is there something I should do that I'm not doing or vice versa?
Nothing eats mine, I’ve tried 4 varieties and nothing. I bought 8 pounds of the suet nuggets and the evil House Sparrows and Grey Squirrels devoured it all in under a week. The Chickadees are obsessed with my Finch sacks so unless a Woody Woodpecker shows up I’m not buying anymore suet. 🤷♂️
@@MarksBackyardBirds I just came in from outside and snapped about 70 photos of a juvenile Downy having his way with one of my suet log. Just when I had given up!! 🙏
