Suet cake for the birds

[dandysmom]

Originally Posted by Moli

I have loads of baby starling too Kazz, they go for the suet cake and fat balls...

Aha! Something new: what are fat balls?

[Kazz]

Originally Posted by Moli

I have loads of baby starling too Kazz, they go for the suet cake and fat balls...

Yep totaly agree will start with the suet cake and fat balls when the winter sets in as such at the moment I am only supplementing them.
Think it took them about a week to find them, then another week to settle in.

[Moli]

Originally Posted by dandysmom

Aha! Something new: what are fat balls?

More or less the same as suet cake, but in ball shapes, you get a wire holder for them...

[Kazz]

I think the difference is fat balls basicaly are that balls of fat with seed etc added whereas correct me if I am wrong Moli but suet cake seems to now come in loads of different "flavours/mixtures"

Karen

[dandysmom]

Originally Posted by Moli

More or less the same as suet cake, but in ball shapes, you get a wire holder for them...

Thanks! Didn't see any of those in the hardware store actually, had never heard of them! Think I'll stick with the suet cake for now and see how it goes. Right now, all I have is sparrows, but as the weather worsens, will have more interesting birds ...chickadees, nuthatches, wrens, as they move further South to escape the Northern winter!

[Moli]

Originally Posted by Kazz

I think the difference is fat balls basicaly are that balls of fat with seed etc added whereas correct me if I am wrong Moli but suet cake seems to now come in loads of different "flavours/mixtures"

Karen

you are right Kazz... Have any of you got gold finches, I have a whole family of them at the moment...

[Kazz]

Yes I have gold finches, hold on I'll get the book out and tell you what I have anythingnew in the garden is logged by my Dad he spends hours watching the birds ifnot watching the cricket now he logs them down, Lord knows why?

[Kazz]

No good can't find it but finches Gold, Green and Bull finches I know as well as the wrens, starlings, sparows house and tree. And various members of the Tit family

[dandysmom]

Kazz, that's what birders do, I understand! As a person who keeps garden records of when things bloom, frost dates, etc., I certainly know the record-keeping impulse. We had almost no goldfinches this Summer, no idea why; last year they were all over the place! My friend the police officer put thistle seed in his feeder to entice them, but they didn't show, and the sparrows don't like thistle seed!

[Kazz]

Yes I put out thistle seed for them they adore it.