Product Review: NePo Suet Cakes
NePo Suet Cakes from neposuet.com
I had a pretty good bird day yesterday. I took a walk on my lunch hour down at the Jordan River parkway and saw a few great birds that I don’t normally see, including a couple of belted kingfishers and some ruby-crowned kinglets. One of them lit on a branch right near where I was standing and I got to watch him flit around catching midges until some runners came by and scared him off.
Upon returning home, I found I had received my two Nepo suet cakes in the mail. I was pretty stoked to get them and give them a try. My first impression was that these are very high quality products. I am just estimating here, but it felt like one of these cakes weighs about the same as two suet cakes you might buy at a large retail store. What’s more, NePo cakes are very dense and contain no filler material like the common store brands which are about 80% cracked corn. I don’t have many birds in my area who like eating that stuff and it mostly ends up on the ground, so I was really happy have a cake that will get 100% used by the birds. I am guessing that they will feed a lot more birds than what I was using before just due to their density. The two cakes I requested were the Insect Blend and the Peanut Butter Blend, both of which I am certain the birds are going to devour. You can read about the extensive process they follow to create these cakes here, but suffice it to say that they are committed to creating a quality product of the highest quality ingredients for your birds. It feels good hanging them in the yard knowing these are pure products full of high energy for our favorite backyard guests. I must even admit the peanut butter one looks good enough to eat myself, but I will refrain (most likely).
The story behind NePo Suet Company is pretty cool and the creator/owner is a inspirational guy who has turned this misfortune in this troubled economy into a successful nonprofit organization called “We’ve Got Time to Help” which is a group of unemployed folks who provide service to others in the community. He then decided to turn his love for birds and birding into a business creating suet cakes and that is how NePo was born.
The folks at NePo suet also keep a really great birding blog at http://www.portlandbirds.blogspot.com/ as well as a spectacular flickr stream. You can also follow them on Twitter @NePoSuet.
I highly encourage you to bop on over to the site and order a few for your birds. You won’t be disappointed.
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Mar 16, 10 at 9:50 PMThe birds were all over these cakes today. I had a swarm of starlings, plus a chickadee, and some downy woodpeckers enjoying them.
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