I’ve never been much of a bird watcher; can’t tell you one from another except by their color, but I love watching the birds at our birdfeeders.  Birds bring a beautiful garden to life. I enjoy the fact that a wide variety of birds can peacefully co-mingle on the edges of my birdfeeder eating their fill until the next meal.  With the exception of the occasional squirrel or crow - all seems to be peaceful, like a scene out of the Secret Garden. 

I recently stumbled upon a new recipe that attracts woodpeckers, northern flickers, black-capped chickaddes and nuthatches from Birds and Blooms magazine.

2 cups lard

1 cup crunchy peanut butter

2 cups quick cooking oats

2 cups cornmeal

1 cup flour

1/3 cup sugar

1 cup raisins

1 cup wild bird food

Melt lard and peanut butter together over low heat. Remove from heat and stir in remaining ingredients. Pour into plastic molds or containers. cover and store in the freezer until ready to use.  

Actually, until you add the bird food it almost sounded pretty tasty!  Hope the birds think so.

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