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Th snow, sleet and subzero temperatures that have hit Rappahannock in the past few weeks have left families little time to ihink about anything but shoveling driveways, digging out cars and repairing burst water pipes. The weather has meant inconvenience and even hardship for humans; it is disaster, however, for birds if they don’t get a little help from friends in the form of supplemental food supplies.
Sally Sharp of Washington provided the Rappahannock News with the following suggestions for dinners to serve cardinals, blue jays, finches and other fly-in visitors.
Melt suet and fat and mix with dried ingredients, two parts suet to one part dry. The dried food can be bread crumbs, chopped nuts, seeds, chopped and dried apples, peaches, raisins or currants.
The mix can be poured into half shells of grapefruit or coconuts and hung from a tree branch. It can be smeared into deep cracks in tree bark or poured over the branches of a discarded Christmas tree for the late bird who missed the worm.
The suet mix also can be poured into an old empty can or ice cube tray, cooled, then dipped into hot water and turned out for a bird cake. Or it can be hung from a tree
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