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Suet provides energy for wild birds, especially in the wintertime. You can render your own suet and make your own suet feed from various recipes.
5 Suet Recipes to Attract Wild Birds
Image: FotoosvanRobin
With all your holiday cooking, don't forget about the birds outside your window.
Have fun with family or just your feathered friends -- make simple recipes to attract and keep healthy wild birds to your porch, patio, or balcony.
Here are five recipes for high-energy suet:
Mammals and Your Outdoor Area
Raccoons in a tree, Quadzilla99
Perhaps you enjoy squirrels, or understand the healthy role bats play in an ecosystem. Or perhaps your small outdoor area borders on an open space such that raccoons or even foxes visit.
No matter the situation, think carefully before attracting mammals to your outdoor area.
It's Cold Enough -- It's Time to Order Your Friendly Solitary Bees
Yes, that's right -- I said bees!
Certain kinds of bees can be harmless, good for the environment, simple to encourage, and very entertaining.
Sells limited amounts of packaged orchard mason bees and hornfaced bees and a great deal of bee-related supplies. It has a great deal of helpful information, some of which is geared towards the novice and some towards the experienced bee keeper.
Supplier of orchard mason bees, supplies, and related products. The best information you're going to find for a novice!
This description is written clearly and is not very long or encyclopedic in tone. It covers basic kinds of solitary bees: carpenter, miner, cuckoo, leaf-cutter, and mason.
There is no worker class among solitary bees, but only fully developed males and females. Each female builds a nest in a protected place. Although many nests may be found close together each female solitary bee provides for her own young and gathers her own food. Like all wild bees, solitary bees are chiefly valuable as pollinators of plants.
