I put in the cones a mixture of suet, sultanas and sunflower hearts. This is the same mixture that I put into holes in logs that I hang up for the Great-spotted Woodpeckers. My wife makes a great cake for the birds, she mixes into a pudding bowl, flour, bran, oats, sultanas, bird seed, sunflower hearts and many other items that she can find, she binds it all together with suet and puts it in the microwave for ten minutes. the birds go mad on it. Icing sugar and mazipan is another attraction to the Long-tail tits and the Blackcap. Now that the birds are starting to nest we cut out the peanuts, just incase they try feeding them to the young. To replace the nuts we now start feeding mealworms. The Tits are now starting to collect the dogs hair from a spring containor that we hung up beneath one of the bird tables. I think we can safely say that spring is here at last.:)

That sound's a good little dinner your serving them,
I make a groundfeed ...
Grated Cheese,
Sultana's,
Biscuit crumb's,
Seed,
Alpen,
Mixed together ... They eat it all so quick lol,
I hope your still taking some nice picture's Tanny, ;) ,
Thank's for the recipe ... I take it you mix the Suet in without melting it?,
You let the Microwave melt it?, ... Be nice a more detailed text of that Cake
Recipe of your Wife's, Thank's Tanny and Take Care,
John,

Hi John, its been a while since I had time to get involved .
As you say my wife mixes everything all together and puts into the microwave to melt the suet that binds all the ingrediants. The mixture varies with what we have at hand at the moment, but the basics are the Sunflower hearts, sultanas, mixed seed, bran, and flour. At this time of the year we don't put out pea nuts so they are not included in the cake until next winter. I am having trouble at the moment with a pesky Squirrel, it persistantly attacks the cake, thankfully it ignors the hanging feeders. Whenever I see it I dash out, clapping my hands and chase it up the lane. Each time I chase it the cheeky blighter becomes less and less afraid, and only keeps a fiew pases in front of me now. At this rate I fear it might retaliate and turn on me.
The Blackbird, Robin, Dunnock and the Wood Pigeons seem to be the main consumers of the cake at this time of the the year.

Digibinning Little Ringplover
 

My first lifer of the Little Ringplover.:) So glad I was able to get a couple of pictures to have as a memory. Thank goodness I had my camera and binoculars, plus a steady hand for a change to get these pictures. These were taken at the Inner Marsh Farm RSPB reserve, yesterday, 26th July.

Very good Tanny.You do a great job with bins and camera.