Homespun Songbird Suet

Homespun Songbird Suet Homespun suet handmade on the SW Miramichi. Simple ingredients, big energy, and perfect for keeping your backyard birds happy. 🐦‍⬛🍁

Pine Siskin's are the bird of the week. 🐦
01/26/2026

Pine Siskin's are the bird of the week. 🐦

❄️🐦 Winter Fuel for New Brunswick’s Backyard Birds 🐦❄️When snow and ice cover natural food sources, birds burn huge amou...
01/22/2026

❄️🐦 Winter Fuel for New Brunswick’s Backyard Birds 🐦❄️

When snow and ice cover natural food sources, birds burn huge amounts of energy just to stay warm. Suet provides fast, high-fat fuel that helps chickadees, woodpeckers, nuthatches, jays, and more survive our harsh winter months.

Feed smart. Feed local. Feed suet. 💚🐦

🌲❄️ Bird of the Week: The Pine Grosbeak! ❄️🌲​Look who’s adding a splash of color to our snowy landscapes!​This week, we’...
01/18/2026

🌲❄️ Bird of the Week: The Pine Grosbeak! ❄️🌲

​Look who’s adding a splash of color to our snowy landscapes!

​This week, we’re celebrating the Pine Grosbeak one of our largest and most gentle winter finches. These "friendly giants" travel down from the boreal forest to visit us in New Brunswick, often appearing in small, quiet flocks.
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​Keep an ear out for their soft, whistling call — it’s one of the sweetest sounds of a New Brunswick winter!

​Have you seen these colorful visitors in your trees or at your feeders lately? Share your sightings and photos below! 👇🍎

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New Price List
01/07/2026

New Price List

🌲🐦 Made Just for Your Backyard Birds 🐦🌲Every yard is different — and so is every order.I can make any seed mix into suet...
01/07/2026

🌲🐦 Made Just for Your Backyard Birds 🐦🌲
Every yard is different — and so is every order.
I can make any seed mix into suet cakes, balls, nuggets, or minis, depending on what works best for your space.
If you’ve got a preference, I’ll happily customize it. That’s the Homespun way. 🤍

Happy 2026 from Homespun Songbird Suet!!
01/01/2026

Happy 2026 from Homespun Songbird Suet!!

Merry Christmas 🎄🎅Thank you to everyone who supported Homespun Songbird Suet this holiday season. Wishing you warmth, pe...
12/23/2025

Merry Christmas 🎄🎅

Thank you to everyone who supported Homespun Songbird Suet this holiday season. Wishing you warmth, peace, and plenty of winter birds outside your window. 🪶❄️

📦🐦 Packaged and ready to go! 🐦📦A little peek at a finished order headed out as a Christmas gift 🎄Each Homespun Songbird ...
12/22/2025

📦🐦 Packaged and ready to go! 🐦📦

A little peek at a finished order headed out as a Christmas gift 🎄

Each Homespun Songbird Suet order is handmade, thoughtfully packaged, and made with our local winter birds in mind — from hearty seed blends to our Forest Friends Festive Feast wreath.

🎨 Artwork on our packaging is hand-drawn by my daughter, Cate, adding an extra homespun touch.

A meaningful gift for bird lovers, backyard watchers, and anyone who enjoys a little extra life outside their window. 💚

🎄 Last-Minute Christmas Gifts 🎄Still need a thoughtful Christmas gift?Our Wild Evergreen Songbird Ornaments and Forest F...
12/21/2025

🎄 Last-Minute Christmas Gifts 🎄
Still need a thoughtful Christmas gift?

Our Wild Evergreen Songbird Ornaments and Forest Friends Festive Feast wreaths bring a little woodland magic to winter backyards ❄️🐦

Handmade, festive, and perfect for last-minute gifting.

My other winter treats are still available as well.

12/21/2025

Redpolls are tiny, energetic finches that seem perfectly designed for the harsh beauty of winter. Often appearing during colder months in flocks, these birds are famous for their fearless attitude toward freezing temperatures. Their dense, fluffy plumage traps warm air close to the body, allowing them to survive Arctic conditions that would challenge many other songbirds. The small splash of red on the crown—like a drop of winter fire—stands out vividly against snowy landscapes, making redpolls a favorite sight for birdwatchers in cold regions.

One of the most fascinating traits of redpolls is their remarkable cold-weather survival strategy. They can store food in a special pouch in their throat, allowing them to quickly gather seeds and retreat to shelter during storms. At night, redpolls often burrow into snowbanks, using the snow as insulation to stay warm while icy winds sweep overhead. This clever use of snow turns a frozen environment into a protective blanket, highlighting the bird’s incredible adaptability.

Redpolls are also known for their acrobatic feeding behavior. They cling effortlessly to thin branches, w**d stalks, and even upside down seed heads, extracting tiny seeds with precision. Birch and alder trees are especially important food sources, and flocks of redpolls moving through these trees create a lively winter scene filled with soft chatter and motion. Their social nature helps them locate food more efficiently during times when resources are scarce.

Despite their delicate appearance, redpolls embody resilience and endurance. They thrive where winter dominates the landscape, transforming cold, silent days into moments of movement and life. Watching redpolls in the snow offers a powerful reminder that even in the deepest winter, nature continues with quiet strength, beauty, and determination.

❄️🐦 Winter Solstice 🐦❄️The longest night of the year is here — and from here on out, the days slowly grow brighter.Winte...
12/21/2025

❄️🐦 Winter Solstice 🐦❄️
The longest night of the year is here — and from here on out, the days slowly grow brighter.

Winter birds are settling in, fluffed up against the cold and busy at our feeders. A little seed goes a long way on days like these.

Here’s to light returning, cozy days ahead, and caring for our backyard birds. ✨🌲

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