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After reading the article I just had to try the recipe. We didn't have a tree. and I hadn't seen any laying around yet. However I improvised. on both the recipe and the feeder. We use a George Foreman grill for bacon. so I used the bacon grease that we usually burn with some of the trash.
Stayed fairly close with every thing else except peanut butter. I used some but it was the good stuff that we like too and the jar was nearly empty. Any way, mixed every thing together. I used an empty egg carton and suspended it from a tree limb. where we could watch it from the comfort of the house. It took about 3 days for any birds found it. It started with chickadees. then today we had a male cardinal visiting it. They can stand on the humps between the egg holes, and eat to their hearts content. It should do fine untill I can come up with a more permanent feeder.
So many thanks for posting your article.
Russ
Hey, whatever works! You should see some of the hummingbird feeders I've improvised, LOL.
I was a little hesitant about bacon grease because of the salt, etc, but I googled a little, and it comes up as an ingredient in a lot of bird food recipes, even on some "birding" sites.
Keep your eye out for a tree on the curb this week, though... It'll make a more attractive and sturdier feeder than the egg carton! :-)
