If the neighborhood birds are on your gift list this season here are some easy recipes for homemade suet dough. Real suet from the butcher is a high calorie, high energy, nutritious fatty food for ...

Suet makes a great diet supplement for insect-eating birds during the winter when insects are harder to find. Bird-feeding supply stores sell a wide range of suet cakes, some plain, some mixed with ...

Cakes of suet in a suet bird feeder will help sustain your avian friends through the winter. My mother gave me this recipe for making cakes for a suet bird feeder. Save the fat trimmings from beef, ...

If you want to draw beautiful birds to your yard, providing a food source during the winter can help. Karen DeWitz, author of, "Look at That Bird!", shared how to make your own bird suet! For more ...

Hollie Sanders, Arkansas Game and Fish Commission assistant chief of education, is known for teaching people how to cook up delicious Dutch oven recipes. But one of her favorite treats to make is for ...

Create these DIY bird feeders using a few ingredients and a dish you might already have in your kitchen; they're so pretty, ...

Suet is a high-fat, high-energy supplement relished by birds looking for scarce food sources in winter. It is readily available pre-made at commercial outlets, but you can easily make your own ...

Often thought of as a wintertime bird food, suet can also be fed with surprising results even in warm months. Use suet to attract Western tanagers, grosbeaks, woodpeckers (and their babies), bushtits ...

Dozens of birds love suet, especially woodpeckers. But backyard bird hosts face a confusing array of packaged suet combos. How to choose? In short, it's not by price. True suet is the fat that ...

DEAR HELOISE:I clipped your suet recipe a while back and finally got around to making it last month. The birds devour it. Thank you for the recipe. My birds thank you, too. — Ken Erickson, via e-mail.

DEAR READERS: Do you want to turn your backyard into a bird sanctuary? With a little effort and a lot of love, before long your yard could be attracting a wide variety of birds. The best way to start ...

LITTLE ROCK — There are two basic kinds of bird watchers: the hard-core types for whom birding is a serious, time-consuming pastime, and casual bird watchers who simply enjoy seeing and hearing birds ...