I agree with Kendra..Best to make your own.Not only do commercial suet mixes melt during hot weather, but they often have fillers such as millet, milo, canary seed..etc that birds dislike.. You could buy some live or dried mealworms, and mix them into the suet.Crickets and darkling beetles can also be bought at pet stores. Elderberry, juniper and red cedar, hawthorn, sumac, holly, hackberry..etc are also berries that bluebirds enjoy.You can find a whole list of berries they will eat here ; http://www.sialis.org/plants.htm

mine varies from season to season and which birds i have at the time, In the cold winter months i use lard or shortning with peanut butter and add either mixed bird seed or oatmeal and make a thick dough. and mold it into the cage. But in summer cut down on the fats and use molasses or corn syrup with peanut butter and mixed bird seed and chopped fruits or berries again make a thick dough and mold it into the cages or crumble some in the platform. anytime of the year if i have leftover cereal ora few nuts or some sunflower seeds and what ever to the mix.

THE YEAR IS 2013 MONTH JUNE I am posting from a mount high with my Valkyrie horns and piercing Wagnerian Opera singing voice strong enough to break a crystal goblet. -- trumpets blaring singing highest praises to the best vacuum cleaner I have used in my entire life! I am 52 and housecleaned for years in my youth before I became a forensic psychologist. I cleaned households of wealthy cocaine dealers in Marin County, California in the late 70s early mid eighties and the houses of Rock stars thereby becoming acquainted with all of the best, most expensive, well established vacuums in the entire world. Naturally those days fell away as I was able to escape the depraved world of my criminal drug dealer rock and roll roadie father I was born to, to attend UC berkeley and Post Graduate School to enter forensic psychology as PhD assessing dangerousness for highly violent psychopath inmates in the California criminal Justice System. Though very busy and engaged in this high paying, dangerous work cut out for the select few, I always cleaned my various domiciles myself, availing myself of fine vacuums on a high salary. It was not until 2002 that I came across the vacuum cleaner of my dreams! This vacuum has been with me for 11 yrs. requiring nary a single repair and works as well as the day I so luckily bought it for pennies from a young gentlemen who bought it brand new but was suddenly forced to leave the country in 24 hrs. to catch a flight to Germany to work at his dream job of a lifetime, at Adidas Headquarters! The vacuum!? A Miele 246 Naturelle cannister vacuum cleaner. This vacuum is wonderful! It will suck up anything on anything! I dont even change the attachments, I just take off their standard floor rug head, and use the tube for corners and all else. This is because the power suck is so strong there's no need to jack up the PSI with attachments that narrow the square inch factor for smaller harder areas. In fact this vacuum is so strong I almost sucked up my parrot! It's not a large parrot like a Macaw, its barrel chested and stocky but only the height of a Robin. My poor parrot ran in front of the field zone of my vacuum path and got sucked right into the entrance hole of the hose! Horrible, The sqwauking and screaming that entailed!!! Because he was larger than the circumference, and a strong, athletic little tough bird, he wasnt dragged up the tube, but he was momentarily pinned at the ingress. I flipped off the power in 2 seconds, releasing him, befuddled and recouping while he rustled his feathers and scampered like a bowlegged pigeon toed football running back across the floor to safety. He was not the worse for wear and hence forth he was caged during vacuum times. Nevertheless my parrot's frightening experience speaks volumes to the vacuum power this cannister has and still does!! This Miele is lightweight on wheels and easily maneuvered. It has not required a single repair. I just change the couple filters when needed and keep it in a warm dry storage. It never blows dust or stinks like so many vacuums do after awhile. It handles wood, tile, low carpet, ciellings and corners equally beautifully and it is pleasantly quiet for a vacuum cleaner - really helpful when I feel compelled to push the limit of shared wall apt. living by vacuuming compulsively some visually irritatting debris off the floor at an off hour. I havnt received a single complaint even for a 20 minute vacuum session at 2am in the morning right below my upstairs neighbors bedroom!! This leads to my last point. Which is I love this vacuum cleaner so much after all these years, and this will sound a little perverse maybe - but I actually look forward to almost any time I get to use it! The ease of use and the immense gratification of such dramatic clean up results while feeling the power of this little muscely whirring German mini- tank of a machine is just so satisfying, at times, I can scarcely stand it :-) :-)!! This German engineering and quality reminds me of a very high end little racing power coupe BMW. As Ive had those too. No machine engineering rivals those pesky Germans! Why do you think they almost ruled the world?! Kiss your Kirby, Hoover, Oreck, Dyson... blah, blah....goodbye forever and invest in one of these cannisters from Miele and you will never have to buy another vacuum cleaner your entire life!! I personally have the Naturelle 246. I believe its pricing is highly competitive and its the best of my life as a discerning, intelligent and highly experienced house cleaner as most women are anyways.

I like nearly all kinds of ornaments and decorations, but I would be inclined to go with something homemade. This is a very timely discussion for me because I'm in the exact same boat! I recently joined a local "artists" group, so I don't know anyone yet. I'll be attending their xmas party on Thursday and they're doing an ornament exchange -- they say "wrapped handmade ornament or no more than $5 if purchased". Since I'm new to this long-standing group, and I weave, I made this deer ornament last night. I thought it was cute until I saw My3dogs' reindeer!!! My3dogs, your reindeer ornaments are absolutely fantastic!!! This is the deer I wove -- sorry for poor photo. I've used a clear stretchy cord so it can be hung, but it can also stand. Is this ok (hopefully good!) for an ornament exchange??? It's very lightweight. Otherwise my choices were to make a Polish Star (paper ornament) or a "pinecone" look ornament from willow. Help?