What Foods for What Birds?
Are you looking to attract specific birds to your backyard? If so, our handy bird food chart seen below can be a very helpful guide. Use the food items that coincide with a particular bird in the making of your homemade suet cake, and see what birds flock to your yard. Once you have the recipe just right, you can keep feeding the birds the same mixture and enjoy bird watching, year round.
When creating a homemade suet cake, add a few spoonfuls of the ingredients found below to your meat fat, in your You Do It Suet® mold, let set and the pop out and place in any standard suet cage in your yard. Let the bird watching commence!
What Birds Like to Eat
Blue Jay
- Sunflower Seed
- Safflower Seed
- Cracked Corn
- Peanuts
- Peanut Butter
- Breadcrumbs
Bushtit
- Breadcrumbs
- Sunflower Seed
- Wild Bird Seed
Downy Woodpecker
- Sunflower Seed
- Cracked Corn
- Breadcrumbs
- Peanut Butter
- Peanuts
- Sunflower Seed
Gold Finch
- Thistle Seed
- Sunflower Seed
- Millet
- Fruit
- Peanuts
House Finch
- Wild Bird Seed
- Peanuts
- Peanut Butter
- Sunflower Seed
- Thistle Seed
House Wren
- Bread Crumbs
House Sparrow & Painted Bunting
- Wild Bird Seed
- Sunflower Seed
Juncos
- Thistle Seed
- Cracked Corn
- Peanuts
- Breadcrumbs
Northern Flicker
- Peanut Butter
- Peanuts
- Sunflower Seed
- Breadcrumbs
- Fruit
Oriole
- Apples
- Rasisins
- Oranges
Pine Siskin
- Nuts
- Oats
- Thistle Seed
- Sunflower Seeds
- Millet
- Wild Bird Seed
Purple Finch & Red Crossbills * American Golf Finch
- Thistle Seed
- Sunflower Seed
Red Pole
- Breadcrumbs
- Sunflower Seed
Song Sparrow
- Sunflower Seed
- Wild Bird Seed
- Breadcrumbs
- Millet
- Thistle Seed
Warblers
- Fruit
- Breadcrumbs
- Nuts
Woodpeckers
- Mealworms
- Fruit
- Sunflower Seed
- Nuts