I use anything that is left over and mix with seeds etc. Bacon fat seems to be favoured by the finches here...
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Chaps,
No-one hates wasps as much as me but on an ecological note they are important for pollination early in the year and there were reports last year of a poor show for both wasps and bees.
I'm all for wasp traps in late summer but not earlier in the year. What do you think?
No-one hates wasps as much as me but on an ecological note they are important for pollination early in the year and there were reports last year of a poor show for both wasps and bees.
I'm all for wasp traps in late summer but not earlier in the year. What do you think?
For the longtailed fans amongst us 
Still searching for the beardy Jon
Red
(Toddy the blue tits loved the insects - saw the long tails on the regular fat balls)
Still searching for the beardy Jon
Red
(Toddy the blue tits loved the insects - saw the long tails on the regular fat balls
)Nice one Red, that didn't take you long. Looks like your having some good weather up there...
You will need to look in the reed beds for the beardies...
You will need to look in the reed beds for the beardies...
Nice one
He looks all puffed up in his feathery duvet, doesn't he?
The ones around here always seem quite peachy pink coloured over their breasts.
Funnily enough, and it's the first time I have *ever* seen it, a wren came to peck at the crumbled stuff.
I have a lot of wrens in the garden, but they usually skitter along through the hedges and the ivy and among the stones at the edges of the ponds.
I think the recommendation is to use any animal fat but not the vegetable stuff for fat balls.
Oh, and, rendered lard is really, really messy stuff Good old fashioned suet or the contents of the frying pan if it goes hard is excellent.
cheers,
Toddy
He looks all puffed up in his feathery duvet, doesn't he?
The ones around here always seem quite peachy pink coloured over their breasts.
Funnily enough, and it's the first time I have *ever* seen it, a wren came to peck at the crumbled stuff.
I have a lot of wrens in the garden, but they usually skitter along through the hedges and the ivy and among the stones at the edges of the ponds.
I think the recommendation is to use any animal fat but not the vegetable stuff for fat balls.
Oh, and, rendered lard is really, really messy stuff
Good old fashioned suet or the contents of the frying pan if it goes hard is excellent.cheers,
Toddy
It was a day of writing training courses and doing some testing on the side
So after about 6 hours of 'putering I needed a stretch - the little guys were all up and down the hedge so I grabbed the Canon
Thought of you Jon when the buzzards were stacking up overhead too (see the "Thermals" thread Strangely Toddy she had just spent ten minutes preening and getting his feathers "just so"
She must be a she - I could almost hear her saying "oh, if you are going to take pictures just let me change and do my hair"
Red
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