Fat balls recipe for bird

The thing you need (makes several)

• 5 digestive biscuits
• 1 cup bird seeds or peanuts
• Half a pack of lard
• Pine cones (optional)
• String (optional)

Steps to make the bird cakes

There are many methods to make these cakes. If you’d prefer to hang them from the tree, you have to make up the cakes around knotted string or pine cones. Or make free-standing cakes that you simply simply put on a bird table or windowsill.

To help make the bird cake mixture

1. Crush the biscuits inside a mixing bowl using the rear of a wood spoon – and hang aside.
2. Perform the same goes with the seeds or peanuts.
3. Cut the lard into small pieces.
4. Mix the biscuits, seeds or peanuts and also the lard together within the bowl.

To create free-standing bird cakes

1. Take handfuls from the mixture and form into small cake shapes together with your fingers. (You ought to have enough for many.)
2. Insert them in the fridge to harden, then put on a table or windowsill ready for that wild birds!

To create hanging bird cakes

1. For those who have pine cones to hands, first make their scales have opened up out, since the bird cake mix needs space to stay. You are able to open them out by putting the pine cones inside a sunny place or somewhere warm as with an airing cupboard or on the radiator – for any good couple of days.
2. Take a number of seed mix and press it in to the spaces between your scales.
3. Next tie some string tightly round the pine cone to be able to hang the bird cake from the tree.
4. Should you don’t have pine cones, simply tie some big knots all along the size of a bit of string and squeeze the bird cake mix of these, then hang the string from the branch.

If you wish to place your homemade fat balls inside a nice birdfeeder, or are lacking time, take a look at these gorgeous globe-formed ceramic bird ball feeders within the Eden Project web store.

Why feed the wild birds?

Listed here are three good reasons to give the wild birds:

1. They’re very exciting to look at and pay attention to within the garden.
2. They’re useful to gardeners simply because they eat unwanted pests like slugs and snails.
3. Wild birds require a helping hands throughout the winter, when bugs and berries might be scarce.