When attracting birds to your yard with feed, you want to provide tasty treats year round. Martha Stewart loves this feeder ...

Eleven-ounce suet and seed cakes and are available at supermarkets and large variety stores where wild birdseed and feeders are sold.

You can use discarded beef, chicken, and pork fat to make the base for suet bird feeder cakes.

Above: From Birds Choice, the Suet Feeder for Single Cake is made of recycled plastic and comes in various colors.

For example, suet cake feeders look like square wire cages, designed to hold square commercial suet cakes.

I put black oil sunflower, white millet, nyjer, and suet feeders near the house in the cold months because they're easy to access in bad weather and they bring the winter birds in close.

For example, suet cake feeders look like square wire cages, designed to hold square commercial suet cakes. These work perfectly fine, of course, but most people would prefer to take pictures of ...

These two woodpeckers are rarely if ever seen on suet cake feeders, but watch for them if you hike or snowshoe in the northern forests.