Here's the recipe for a delicious bird cake.

It might sound awful to you but the birds love it.

Ingredients:

2 cups of dry mixture:

• peanuts are best - not salted
• grated stale cheese
• seeds
• oatmeal
• raisins or currants

1 cup of melted suet or other fat

Method:

Mix the nuts, seeds, oatmeal, cheese, currants and raisins together with the melted fat.

Let the mixture set in a suitable container (a yoghurt pot would do - first make a hole in the bottom, thread with strong string so you can hang in up).

Then hang it up where the birds can gradually peck at it. Or tip the bird cake out onto your bird table.