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Feed the Birds
1 cup suet (ask for it in the meat department of your grocery store)
1 cup peanut butter
3 1/2 cups cornmeal
3 large pinecones
3 12 inch pieces string or ribbon
small amount birdseed
Melt the suet in a saucepan over medium heat on the stove. Add the peanut butter to the suet, stirring until it's melted and blended in with the suet. Then take the saucepan off the stove.
Add the cornmeal to the mixture and blend until it looks like dough. When the dough has cooled, use a spoon or your fingers to pack the dough into the openings of pinecones. Roll the dough-covered pinecones in birdseed.
Tie a string or ribbon around each of the pinecones, leaving one end long enough to tie onto a tree branch. Hang your seed ball bird treats outside and watch your hungry feathered friends eat like a bird!

Homemade Hummingbird Nectar Recipe
Thanks to Cheryl for sending this in.
"I have always made my own Nectar for the hummingbirds as a 3 to one ratio of water to sugar. For example 3 cups of water to 1 cup sugar, and then I boil the mixture to prevent it from spoiling.(This will fill 2 feeders). I have also seen recipes that call for a 4 to 1 ratio, but I prefer to make it with the 3 to 1 ratio. Do not use honey or artificial sweeteners it must be sugar. You will cause malnutrition with honey or artificial sweeteners. I always have lots of hummingbirds around who really enjoy this nectar. (I have heard that red food colouring will ruin their kidneys, I don't know if this is true or not so I do not add it to the nectar just in case it is true, I just make sure the feeder is red.)"

Milk Jug Feeder
MATERIALS:
milk jug rinsed well and dried
yarn for hanger
scissors
bird seed
INSTRUCTIONS
Cut a hole in two sides of the jug at least 3 inches from the bottom. Punch a hole in the lid of the jug; put one end of the yarn through the hole and tie a knot, so it can't go back through. Use the other end to tie the feeder to a tree in your yard. Fill the bottom with bird seed, and watch all the birdies come to eat.

Peanut Butter Dog Biscuits
1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
1/2 cup all purpose flour
1 Tbl baking powder
3/4 cup milk
1 cup peanut butter
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Combine flours and baking powder in mixing bowl. In a separate bowl, whisk together peanut butter and milk until smooth. Add to dry mixture and mix well to form a ball. Turn dough out on a floured surface and knead lightly. Roll out to 3/8" thick and cut into 1-2" squares. Bake on an ungreased cookie sheet for 15 minutes or until lightly brown.

Pooch Munchies
3 cups whole wheat flour
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 cup shredded cheese
1 egg, beaten slightly
1 cup milk
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Place flour and garlic powder in a large bowl.Stir in oil. Add enough milk to form a dough.
Knead dough and roll out to 1/2” thick. Use cookie cutters and place on greased cookie sheet.
Bake for 12 minutes until they start to brown. Cool and serve.
If you want these to be hard and crunchy, turn oven off and leave the biscuits inside for at least five hours. Store in air tight container

Suet Cakes for Birds
1 c Crunchy peanut butter
1 c Lard
2 c Oatmeal
1 c Flour
1/3 c Sugar
Melt lard and peanut butter in microwave. stir in remaining ingredients pour into 9 x 13 pan. put in fridge until hardened cut into squares or size that accommodates your suet feeder put in freezer container and freeze until ready to use. This stuff won't melt in warm weather.