This Kettle Moraine suet log is a real cedar log bored with deep holes that you pack with suet plugs or peanut-butter suet, giving clinging birds a natural tree-like surface to feed on. Woodpeckers, nuthatches, and chickadees grip the bark and work the holes the way they forage on a trunk.
Hang it from a branch near cover, fill the holes with suet, and offer it through fall and winter when birds need high-energy fat the most. The cedar weathers naturally and the simple form makes refilling quick.
Kettle Moraine has built backyard bird feeders in Wisconsin for years, working in natural cedar and recycled materials made to last outdoors.
