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Bird Treats and Bird Pie for our Feathered Friends
2 cups ground suet, about 1 lb.
1 cup bird seed, sunflower seeds, or cracked corn
Melt suet in a double boiler. Set aside to cool and thicken slightly. To make bird trees, use a Wilton mini tree pan. With hands, form cooled melted suet into tree shapes the approximate size of cavities in tree pan. Press suet into birdseed, then into mini tree pan. Refrigerate until hardened.
Unmold.
Place in mesh bags or wrap in nylon net and hang on tree branches for the birds. Makes 45 trees.
To make a bird pie: Double the above recipe. When hardened slightly, reheat. Add 1 cup of seed and pour into a pie pan. Sprinkle remaining seed on top Refrigerate until firm. Be sure to set pie off the ground where birds are safe eating.
"You can cage a bird, but you cannot make him sing."
- French Jewish Saying
The hummingbird, the loon, the swift, the kingfisher, and the grebe are all birds that cannot walk.
