Backyard Bird Feeding Peanut Butter
Our new favorite thing to feed our backyard birds is peanut butter spread. Our peanut feeders are very popular with the birds, both the shelled and whole in the shell peanuts, but we are having great luck with the wildlife peanut butter spread. Ours is on a simple wooden feeder as in the picture, with the perches as we seem to feel like this will help the non clinging birds have a bit of this special treat should they care to try it, but of course that’s all our human doing as the birds manage to cling all over stuff without our micro-managing. Check this feeder and spread starter kit at Peanut, Nut, Peanut Butter Bird Feeders.
Some people use the peanut butter spread directly on the bark of a tree. Just smear it right on there. They have great luck with this method and report to us that woodpeckers in particular love it. It is a great system to attract woodpeckers to feeding station as they are likely to hang out in the trees around a feeding station for awhile before taking the plunge into landing on the actual bird feeders. We haven’t tried this method of spreading the peanut butter mix on the trees but only because we are in the south and no matter what the time of year, we have bugs galore. Also it will probably be a pure squirrel feeder for us! Still, if this is something you can do, give it a try. Our birds are loving the peanut butter food.
Some of the backyard birds visiting our peanut butter spread are: wrens, nuthatches, chickadees, downy woodpecker, red bellied woodpecker, pine warbler and a hermit thrush.