
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 … Continue Reading