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berries such as elderberries, cherries and dogwood.
Most of you familiar with jays know that if you put out whole, raw peanuts, they will draw the jays in your area like a magnet. Offer whole peanuts in what is known as a plat* form feeder. A platform feeder is simply a frame about 2-feet square made from a 1 x 2-inch board.
Completely cover the bottom of the frame by stapling a piece of wire screen just like that in your storm door to it. A handful of peanuts can then be placed on the screen. Legs can be added to the feeder or even a roof.
At our backyard platform feeder we offer raw peanuts but we break most of them in half so other birds have a chance to grab a few. If left whole Jays will usually take one whole peanut, stuff it down its ' throat, then fill its mouth with another, then quickly fly away to bury them. Once buried the bird will find a leaf and cover the nut. It is amazing to watch.
If making a platform feeder is something you are not comfortable attempting to do you can also present the peanuts directly on the ground of on a flat surface. Blue jays also enjoy whole or shelled black-oiled sunflower seed and striped sunflower seed as well.
Suet is also a favorite backyard feeder food. There are special suet mixtures that are commercially made that contain nuts, fruit, seed, and even insects. Place these in special feeders that enclose the suet in wire mesh and watch them discover ' this new treat. There is a huge variety of suet cake recipes available, for more information the local library would be a good place to start. Here are two homemade bird cake recipes to get you started. The recipes are:
1 cup crunchy peanut butter
1 cup lard 1
2 cups quick cook oats
2 cups commeal
1 cup flour
1/3 cup sugar
Melt the peanut butter and lard and add remaining ingredients and • cool. • — - •
2 cups fresh ground suet
1 cup peanut butter
2 cups yellow com meal
2 cups fine cracked com
Melt suet in a saucepan over low heat. Allow it to cool thoroughly, then reheat it.
Add peanut butter, stirring until melted and well blended.
Add dry ingredients to the suetpeanut-butter blend, and mix well.
Pour into forms or suet-feeders, and cool until hardened.
These recipes are examples of things you can do to attract birds to your yard. These can be prepared at a reasonable cost and you can add things or omit things as long as you enjoy yourself I am sure the birds will appreciate your efforts.
Happy Birding!
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