Suet Brings in the Birds of Autumn

With the autumn progressing, the colder days are increasing the popularity of suet among many of the feeder-visiting birds. Here in the Pacific Northwest, the Western Scrub-jays are becoming quite regular visitors to the feeders after their usual summer absence during which they forage far and wide among the lowland fields. However the plentiful and quick calories provided from suet is simply irresistible, not only to the Scrub-jays but to all the bird species that will spend the winter enduring the wet, cold northwest winter.