Suet To Go wild bird suet

Suet To Go's High Energy Mealworm Suet Cakes list wheat flour, beef suet, mixed seeds, ground peanuts and mealworms, with beef suet making up around 25% of the mix — the ingredient providing most of the energy density that makes suet so valuable to birds in winter. Packaging is reduced-plastic and fully recyclable, which matters to a lot of garden bird feeders as much as the food itself.

Because ground peanuts feature in several of the recipes, it's worth checking the exact product if anyone in the household has a peanut allergy and handles feeders or refills, even though the food itself is intended for birds rather than people.

Suet cakes fit standard cake or block feeders and suit birds that cling and peck at a flat surface. Suet balls work in wire ball feeders and are a popular, simple option for smaller garden birds, while pellets can be scattered on a table or bird table as well as used in specific pellet feeders.

A suet log, with holes drilled through a real log shape, gives a more natural feeding surface that some birds — particularly woodpeckers and nuthatches — take to more readily than a flat cake.

Suet To Go's packaging is described as reduced-plastic and fully recyclable, which is worth knowing if that's a factor in which brand you buy for a hobby that involves refilling feeders regularly through the year.

Stocking more than one format, cakes for a block feeder and balls for a wire feeder, for instance, lets a garden support different birds' feeding styles at once, since not every species approaches a feeder the same way.