Blue Seal Cranberry Snap Suet Cakes for Wild Birds - No Mess Suet Feed, Food for Woodpeckers, Cardinals, Siskins, Sparrows & More - 11oz Suet Feeder, Bird Seed Cakes (Pack of 12)

Birds love this suet cake. I have in front of window and we love to see all the different kinds of birds. The cakes are eaten fast.

Usually, I cannot keep suet out long enough. It gets consumed in one to two days. But, this mix, I cant get to go away at all. It’s been out for 10 days and I imagine it will be out another 10 at least. Maybe other birds in other states appreciate it more. Not so much here in the heartland.

I was expecting to have plenty of birds after putting Cranberry Snap Suet up in my trees. I got a new wire holder and put my first snap suet inside snapping the end closed. I hung it up in my trees around 18 feet high. Its been over 6 weeks and nothing. I see lost of wild Birds around but they do NOT bother with this.

These are good quality and the birds love them. I will get these again

Blue Seal offers a variety of assorted “cakes” for birds. Though they are all listed as “suet cakes”, they are not all made with “suet” which is rendered be fat. Some of them are simply pressed seed cakes held together with corn syrup and auger auger. So if you are looking for cakes made with suet, the make sure you read the ingredients. This listing is indeed for cakes made with suet.These cakes are made in the USA. Ingredients include rendered be fat, crack corn, sesame seeds, millet, grain byproducts, cranberries and vegetable food coloring made from beets. It’s the grain byproducts which hold the suet together and make it not drip and really hot weather like traditional suet cakes. Some of their other cakes are listed as “dough suet”. These are not listed as such, and have a bit of a different consistency, but should still be okay in fairly warm weather. If you live in an area with really hot weather, then you would probably prefer the “dough” suet cakes.

I put a little of this on my railing for my cardinals that come every morning and evening. The female came to it right away and ate for quite some time. I put some in the suet feeder, and the other birds are coming to the suet feeder as well: chickadees, titmouse, sapsucker.I could see the bits of cranberry in this cake. These cakes are not 'chunky' and that's what I need. If they are chunky (full of seeds/nuts), the squirrel will be interested. When they are blended (pureed I guess), the squirrel is much less interested.These cakes are drier than some--not gooey or greasy--so easier to mess with.The price is more though than I normally pay for suet cakes but I do like this formula and that they are a USA based company.

I put this suet in my suet feeder along with the cherry suet (different brand) that I usually purchase. You can see the pictured results.This Cranberry Snap suet was already snapped into pieces when I opened the package. Unlike the usual suet I purchase, it seems to have far less seeds/fruit/grains. I believe that lack of tasty nuggets explains the preference for the other suet as this Cranberry Snap gets far less attention from the birds. I’m hoping the birds decide they like it well enough to start devouring it. On the plus side, the feeder hasn’t been ambushed by squirrels lately. So that’s a plus!

Comments: This is popular with my birds, and is outperforming the "dough" suet bars I’ve offered. I’ve occasionally seen songbirds on it, but it’s the woodpeckers that keep coming back over and over. I would get this again. That said, it’s not as wildly popular as some of the other bars I’ve offered in my feeders.Type of bar: This is a traditional suet (rendered beef fat) bar, which provides birds with energy they need to survive winter.Ingredients: Rendered beef suet, cracked corn, millet, black oil sunflower seeds, processed grain by-products, dried cranberry pieces, coloringBirds I’ve seen eating it: Hairy Woodpecker, Downy Woodpecker, Red-bellied Woodpecker, White-breasted Nuthatch