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Cooking for Birds: Fun Recipes to Entice Birds to Your Garden
Birds are the colourful lifeblood of any garden, whatever its size or location, and if food is on offer, the birds will come. This work brings you some of the popular bird food recipes, combined with a range of useful cookery tips and helpful hints on what to feed and when.
96 pages, Hardcover
First published May 31, 2006
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January 4, 2018
I love cooking, I love our feathery garden visitors - put the two together and BINGO! - a perfect birthday present and [quite literally] food for thought in how to use one's culinary skills to nurture our garden bird population and perhaps entice some newcomers in too.
There are about fifty recipes in all and almost invariably you're making the avian equivalent of a muesli bar (or ball). The staple ingredients are sugar (often in the form of honey or even yikes maple syrup), cereal and fat (suet or peanut butter). And mighty tasty they seem too, as you add fruit nuts seeds and the like to attract the bird of your choice.
Realistically this should be treated as a bit of light-hearted fun - especially as the ingredients are the supermarket food aisle staples - and thus (suet is a similar price, gramme for gramme as butter) this is a rather expensive way of attracting our little chums. Practical advice on say sourcing second-grade not fit for human consumption sources of suet or peanut butter are absent - a WWW search gives you some bulk sellers but the commercial suppliers bird feed products still work out cheaper I think. Also, I suspect the author is vegetarian and so recommends vegetable suet for (often insect- and grub-eating birds) slightly absurdly. No mention either of the incorporation of mealworms or other protein-packed goodies, which you probably wouldn't want in your kitchen or saucepans anyway.
Good fun overall and recommended as such.
There are about fifty recipes in all and almost invariably you're making the avian equivalent of a muesli bar (or ball). The staple ingredients are sugar (often in the form of honey or even yikes maple syrup), cereal and fat (suet or peanut butter). And mighty tasty they seem too, as you add fruit nuts seeds and the like to attract the bird of your choice.
Realistically this should be treated as a bit of light-hearted fun - especially as the ingredients are the supermarket food aisle staples - and thus (suet is a similar price, gramme for gramme as butter) this is a rather expensive way of attracting our little chums. Practical advice on say sourcing second-grade not fit for human consumption sources of suet or peanut butter are absent - a WWW search gives you some bulk sellers but the commercial suppliers bird feed products still work out cheaper I think. Also, I suspect the author is vegetarian and so recommends vegetable suet for (often insect- and grub-eating birds) slightly absurdly. No mention either of the incorporation of mealworms or other protein-packed goodies, which you probably wouldn't want in your kitchen or saucepans anyway.
Good fun overall and recommended as such.
August 14, 2025
I picked this up in a second hand shop, I wasn't expecting much - but I'm glad I picked it up! Full of ideas, it reads very well - not like a list of instructions, but more like an adventure.
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