Best Pinecone Bird Feeder With Bark Butter Recipes

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BARK BUTTER FOR FEEDING BIRDS



Bark Butter for Feeding Birds image

We use this in the fall and push it in to the bark of the tree and then we rub bird seeds and fruits into it and the birds love it we have a couple ladder back hairy wood peckers that come around all the time for it.... we enjoy sitting in the back yard and watching them. we have gotten our camera out and taken pics of the birds...

Provided by JoSele Swopes

Categories     Other Non-Edibles

Time 10m

Number Of Ingredients 4

1 c lard
1 c peanut butter, creamy
1 c all purpose flour
4 c yellow cornmeal

Steps:

  • 1. Mix and Serve This simple mix and serve treat attracts a lot of woodpeckers and other birds. Mix lard, peanut butter and flour. Then add cornmeal. Stir until it's the consistency of putty.
  • 2. Press the mixture into the bark of trees or on your pinecone feeders, etc....then press bird seed and fruit into the tree incase of pinecone or such roll in bird seed and or fruit.

PINE CONE BIRD FEEDER



Pine Cone Bird Feeder image

My husband and I love to feed the birds and watch them go for it...We have quite a few different birds that visit us every year...This is great for our winter birds...Rosy Finches, Gross-beaks, Titmouse, Nuthatchers and more...My hubby and I make them I have located recipes for them on line though I have these in my bird books, too...We use the bark butter on ours...We have a store here that we use Wild Birds Unlimited..family owned they are from back east and they have a book out too... No cooking or baking is needed. Great project for the kids.

Provided by JoSele Swopes @JODIE57

Categories     For Pets

Number Of Ingredients 6

MEDIUM SIZED DRIED
OPEN PINE CONE
1/3 cup(s) peanut butter or bark butter
2/3 cup(s) cornmeal
WILD BIRD SEED MIX
WIRE

Steps:

  • 1. Combine peanut butter or bark butter and cornmeal in a small bowl. Press the mixture into all the cracks of the pine cone. Roll the sticky peanut butter covered pine cone in the wild bird seed mix.
  • 2. Attach the wire to the top of the pine cone and hang it outside.

PINECONE BIRD FEEDER WITH BARK BUTTER



Pinecone Bird Feeder with Bark Butter image

I love using Bark Butter...and the birds love it too...You can add all kinds of goodies, even meal worms Enjoy watching the birds eat their treat!

Provided by JoSele Swopes

Categories     For Pets

Time 20m

Number Of Ingredients 7

1 large pine cone
1 large paper plate
1 butter knife
bark butter
birdseed
ribbon or yarn or twine
scissors

Steps:

  • 1. Cut a long length of yarn, twine, or ribbon to hang the bird feeder.
  • 2. Tie the ribbon in a knot around the pine cone near the top (about 3 sections down).
  • 3. Tie a knot in the end of the ribbon.
  • 4. Use the knife to get a large clump of bark butter on the paper plate.
  • 5. Use the knife to spread bark butter inside the pine cone and around the edges.
  • 6. Sprinkle the birdseed over the pine cone. Roll the pine cone in the birdseed that is on the plate. Hang the bird feeder on the tree.

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