Hanging fat or bacon rinds for garden birds

[Andrew_Culture]

My mother in law has just asked me if it's okay to hang bacon rinds or other fat offcuts up for garden birds.

I asked her on what basis or experience she thought I would know the answer and she gestured at the iPad. So I assume she wanted me to ask the good folk of CycleChat.

So dear Ornithologists - if one hangs up fat for birds should it be cooked?

 

[vernon]

There'd be a lot of starving birds if they refused to eat uncooked fat.

We hang fat blocks out and the most exotic feeders on them that we've had are woodpeckers.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

There'd be a lot of starving birds if they refused to eat uncooked fat.

We hang fat blocks out and the most exotic feeders on them that we've had are woodpeckers.

Ah, you're using that logic stuff

 

[biggs682]

we use but then next doors cat was caught eating it and then being sick so we stopped doing it now

 

[Over The Hill]

Just been watching a sparrowhawk plucking and then eating some other bird (may be one of my neigbors doves) in our garden.

We are in open ground with fields all around which are ruled over by Kites and Hawks, so we dont see much else and it probably would be mean to encourage smaller birds. Mainly just see Wrens and Robins around the garden.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

I would have assumed that, no matter cooked or raw, foxes and mice would have a go at the bacon!