Sewer blockages

Recipe for winter bird cakes

Please don't pour your cooking fat down the plughole - fat and grease causes over 60% of the 60,000 sewer blockages in our region every year.

Instead, why not make a tasty cake for birds?

These make excellent winter food. You will need:
Good quality bird seed; raisins; peanuts; grated cheese; leftover cooking fat; yoghurt pots; string; mixing bowl; scissors

1. Carefully make a small hole in the bottom of a yoghurt pot. Thread string through the hole and tie a knot on the inside. Leave enough string so that you can tie the pot to a tree or your bird table.
2. Allow the leftover fat to solidify at room temperature, then cut it up into small pieces and put it in the mixing bowl.
3. Add the other ingredients to the bowl and mix them together with your finger tips. Keep adding the seed/raisin/cheese mixture and squidging it until the fat holds it all together.
4. Fill your yoghurt pots with bird cake mixture and put them in the fridge to set for an hour or so.
5. Hang your bird cakes from trees or your bird table. Watch for greenfinches, tits and possibly even great spotted woodpeckers.

Source: http://www.thames-water.com/UK