Suet is a staple item of bird food, and anyone who wants to be able to spot a variety of species from their Supremo Bari garden furniture should add it to their feed mix.
This article will provide all you need to know about feeding birds suet.
Why choose suet?
Suet provides birds with energy because it is full of saturated fat. This energy can be crucial to their survival during the winter, when the ground is hard and food is difficult for birds to find. While it’s a particularly good food item to put out during the colder months, birds enjoy suet all year round.
What are the options?
Suet for birds comes in more than one form. Among the most common are fat balls, which are balls made up of suet, mealworms, seeds and nuts. You can put these whole into special feeders, or break them up to leave on bird tables. A second popular choice is suet cakes, which are blocks that can be left as they are or broken up into chunks.
Which birds enjoy suet?
Numerous species of garden birds enjoy suet as part of their diets. Including it among the food choices on offer in your garden will help to attract blackbirds, starlings, great tits, long-tailed tits and blue tits, among others. If you are blessed with good fortune you may even see some rarer species of birds tucking in, such as the great spotted woodpecker, the redpoll or the siskin.
