Christmas for the Birds

Cleaning out my fridge, I found a few old nuts, seeds, dried figs and a jar of rendered beef fat. And I had orange halves left over from squeezing fresh orange juice. So – always wanting to find a use for everything, I made bird feed mixing peanuts, flax seeds, chia seeds, and chopped up figs together.

After warming up the suet, I poured it over the mixture and had to quickly place everything in the fridge to harden. The liquid fat was dripping out of the holes on the sides. It got a little messy there. The fat hardened soon enough and everything was ready to be hung on tree branches outside.

Doesn’t this look delicious!?

It took a day or two to trust this colorful new feeder, but this little downy woodpecker claimed the offering and seemed to enjoy its meal.