Fat balls for birds 

Once the autumn has come we start to store supplies for the cold winter days that are going to come, but do not forget to put some things away for our little noisy friends that are visiting our gardens. Not all the birds migrate to warmer countries when the colder days are coming, so you can care for them on frosty days by offering them food, water and shelter. They will help you back next spring by eating bugs from your garden and enjoy you with their songs. If you have already built their winter shelter is time to prepare them some food if you do not want to buy it form specialized stores or pet-shops. Breadcrumbs are not exactly the best food for them so you can feed them wit seed mixtures but this can mix with their excrements and become unsafely for them to eat them. So a good choice to feed them is to make seeds balls, of course you can find them in pet-shops but why not to make them yourself.

 

Ingredients

- 250 g vegetal fat
- 170 g oat flakes
- crushed nuts or hazel nuts
- wheat meal
- sunflower and pumpkin seeds
- hashed raisins or any other kind of dried fruits
- millet
- wheat seeds
- any other kind of seeds that you can find

Melt the fat. Mix alt the other ingredients in a bowl and keep away 5 tablespoons for later use. Pour the fat over the mixture, stir and let it get cold. When the mixture start to harden take small quantities and form small balls keeping your hands wet to avoid the mixture to stick to your hands. When forming the ball make sure you fix a piece of rope into the ball so you can hang the ball. Spread that 5 tablespoons of left mixture over a piece of paper and roll over the balls into it. Let the balls get completely cold and store them in a dry, cold place until you will serve them to the birds.