How do you serve peanut butter to birds?

Readers share their favorite ways to offer the high-protein snack to backyard visitors. Watch for peanut butter to go on sale throughout the summer. When it gets colder, I stir in yellow cornmeal to make my own suet. It attracts mostly sparrows, but their songs are music to my ears during long winters. Sue Nipe SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA I drill holes in fallen branches, smear peanut butter in the holes and hang them on trees. Allan Trabant CHILLIWACK, BRITISH COLUMBIA Mix crunchy peanut butter with birdseed and mold it in cookie cutters. Trish Vowels WINSTON, OREGON I coat empty toilet paper rolls with peanut butter, roll them in birdseed and hang with ribbon. It’s an instant bird feeder that visitors enjoy. Suzanne Girsch GENEVA, ILLINOIS I teach preschool in Vermont. The children all get a scoop of…

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Birds & Blooms (Digital) - 1 Issue, October/November 2022

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