We feed our wild birds every day, many times a day, and I’ve been blogging about it for a while now too. We don’t have lard or suet in our house but I know quite a few people who do – they have it in stock only for the wild birds and they make their own fatballs from it. We buy our fatballs – they usually contain suet and dried insects or suet and dried fruit. We also feed mealworms, bread and various other things.

The only problem with using peanut butter is that where it ‘originated’, in the USA, theirs doesn’t have a high salt content, ours does. Lots of salt isn’t good for birds. You could maybe make your own peanut butter but if you do, make sure that the nuts you use don’t have pesticides on them. The other problem with peanut butter is you’ll find that squirrels (and possibly other rodential characters) will eat it instead!

Hope you don’t mind the advice!

Dripping and lard is grreeat on bread with a little salt if you don’t have butter (butter was severely rationed for several years after WW2) in the UK.

Say….Don’t feed the birds bread either! I was reading this week, it’s a killer for birds. It gets moldy and it infects their respiratory systems. It attracts vermin too. Sunflower seeds (with the shell on) are great and I find them cheap. I have a ‘fort Knox’ box that closes when a squirrel jumps on board or else the little blighters would eat everything!

Have to say though, I prefer the look of yours – did it work? Round here, I fear the local gang of starlings would make short work of it – they really are just feathered yobs!