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I'm looking for inexpensive, homemade bird food recipes.  Any suggestions?

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What kind are birds are you feeding?  I found this list on A Home For Wild Birds for types of household foods and the types of birds that are attracted to them:

 

Bread Products Wrens, mocking birds, thrashers, sparrows, warblers, tanagers, titmice, towhees, creepers, robins, blackbirds, kinglets, cardinals, grosbeaks, buntings, chickadees, bluebirds, thrushes
Suet (rendered from beef fat) Woodpeckers, wrens, warblers, tanagers, nuthatch, creepers, chickadees, orioles, titmice, mockingbirds, cardinals, goldfinches, bluebirds, grosbeaks, buntings
Peanuts and peanut butter Towhees, goldfinches, cardinals, chickadees, wrens, sparrows, titmice, grosbeaks, buntings, juncos
Berries Wax wings, robins, bluebirds, thrushes
Raisins and currants Wax wings, orioles, robins, bluebirds, thrushes
Nuts Creepers, towhees, juncos, thrashes, mockingbirds, warblers, woodpeckers
Apples Wax wings, mockingbirds, thrashers, wrens, cardinals, grosbeaks, buntings
Fruit Tanagers, orioles, woodpeckers, mockingbirds, thrashers, warblers, cardinals, grosbeaks, buntings, goldfinches, finches
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We have a variety of birds in southwest Ohio.  I enjoy viewing all kinds.  We have woodpeckers, sparrows, cardinals, bluebirds, robins, goldfinches, wrens, orioles, and no doubt several other species.  Thanks for the info, Stins.  I'd love to get a variety of feed out there.


Edited by captaint - 4/14/2009 at 05:12 pm GMT
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