New Product: Suet balls and feeder

If you use suet cakes for bird-feeding, sometimes you may have to force the odd cake into a standard-sized feeder. That shouldn't happen with this new tubelike feeder. The suet has been formed into balls. All you have to do is drop the balls into the feeder and let the birds peck away!

The feeder consists of a powder-coated metal mesh and base and a poly lid with a safety snap to keep the assembly in place. A wire hoop completes the assembly. You can hang the feeder from a shepherd's hook or a tree limb. (A shepherd's hook with a squirrel baffle is probably the best method; that thwarts ravenous squirrels.)

The suet balls come in a pack of four, which is plenty to fill the feeder. We're offering them in two flavors: peanut and hot pepper. The former contains small pieces of peanut; the latter is blended with chili pepper oil. Backyard songbirds don't mind the taste of hot pepper suet; similar products are used successfully against squirrels, which find chili oil or cayenne pepper too hot for their palates.

The feeder is ideal for finches, titmice, nuthatches and woodpeckers. The birds easily reach through the mesh to gobble up the suet.

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