Jan 13th, 2010
How to Make a ‘No-Lard’ Bird Feeder
My Dad is always nagging me to feed the birds. I’ve always resisted because, well, enticing the poor little mites into the garden with the promise of food only for them to be then hunted down and eaten by my evil house pets is not my idea of benevolence. But… it is snowing and they do look terribly hungry and a little bit bored too. So I thought, let’s help the little chaps out.
So I decided to look online for an easy-to-make-at-home bird feeder. I found a recipe, and it erm… required the following: Lard, Suet and bird seed. Well I have the bird seed but since I don’t live in the 1940s I’m all out of LARD! Who the heck has lard in their cupboard anymore - people who are on a ‘die quickly’ regime? Anyway, let’s not get this out of perspective.
Another one required a pine cone that you smear with peanut butter and then stick seed to. A-ha! now we’re talking. I didn’t haven’t a pine cone (don’t get me started on that one too) but I did have, wait for it… an Apple!
So I made some holes in the Apple, put a string through it. Smeared it with peanut butter and…
rolled it in bird seed. Well it looked good. Whether the birds will appreciate it remains to be seen.
