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.
