Suet for Birds

Suet for birds is best placed in a suet and fat ball feeder, which can be hung from trees, poles or feeder stations. The wire on these cage-style feeders makes them easy for small birds to grip and feed whilst also keeping the suet dry.

Suet pellets are popular with a variety of birds, but are particularly popular with insectivore or omnivore birds, these are the birds that eat insects fruit and nuts. They include blackbirds, song thrush, robins, nuthatches, long-tailed tits and woodpeckers. Due to their smaller size, suet pellets are also suitable for robins, dunnocks as well as fledglings.

Birds naturally convert fruit, oily nuts and insects that they eat into fat to use and to store when food is scarce, so by providing fat balls and suet balls, you are helping them. Birds need fat for energy, keeping them warm, flying and singing. Garden birds even use fat stores overnight when they are still burning energy to stay alive.

The suet for birds on our website are produced by hand picked suppliers that melt the highest quality tallow fat and blend it with a variety of seeds, nuts, berries and insects. These 100% natural suet treats are then poured into one of a number of shaped trays or rolled into balls and pellets and allowed to harden.

Suet feasts attract most common garden bird species into the garden and are an excellent addition to any bird’s diet, both during the cold winter months and when rearing fledglings in the spring.

Cold weather can make some suet products firmer, but this does not necessarily mean birds will stop eating them. Bird activity at suet feeders can vary throughout the year depending on natural food availability, the species visiting your garden and how much other food is available. Softer, high-energy suet products may be easier for birds to access during very cold weather. If a block is being left untouched, try offering a different suet product or placing small pieces on a suitable feeding tray.

Yes, our natural suet can soften or melt in high temperatures because this is how fat naturally behaves when heated. Unlike some lower-quality suet products, our suet contains no harmful fillers or unnecessary ingredients to make it artificially heat-resistant. During a heatwave, position your suet feeder somewhere cool and shaded where possible, keep spare suet in a cool, dry place and check the feeder regularly for signs that the food is becoming too soft.

It can take birds a few days or weeks to become familiar with a new food, particularly if they have been eating something different. Birds can be cautious about unfamiliar foods and may take longer to investigate when natural food is readily available. Keep the new food fresh and give birds time to discover it rather than changing it again too quickly. Once they become accustomed to it, you may find that activity at the feeder gradually increases.

Suet can attract a wide range of garden birds, including blue tits, great tits, long-tailed tits, great spotted woodpeckers, nuthatches, starlings and wrens. Blackbirds may also take crumbled suet from a ground-feeding tray. Suet is a high-energy food, making it particularly useful during colder weather when birds need more energy to maintain their body temperature. Offering it alongside seeds and other suitable foods can provide a varied food source for different garden bird species.