Pine cones and the branches they grow on are cast into the sides of this suet cage. The Pinecone suet feeder has a sloped roof, a hanging loop and open sides for clinging birds. It’s the one to pick if your yard is more pine and hemlock than oak, since the design matches the trees it hangs in.

How the Pinecone suet feeder is built

The cage, roof and loop are cast together from aluminum, so there are no thin wires to bend or welds to fail. The pine cone relief is deep enough to read from the porch. Woodpeckers, nuthatches and chickadees grip the cage and feed from the outside, which keeps larger birds from crowding it.

Finish choices

Copper Verdigris has the blue-green tone of an old copper weathervane. Oil Rubbed Bronze is nearly black with a warm undertone. Against evergreens the Verdigris disappears, and the dark finish stands out. Pick whichever you’d rather see, because the birds won’t mind either one.

Material and cleaning

Every Pinecone suet feeder is cast in the USA from recycled aluminum. It won’t rust, and it stands up to scrubbing. The all-weather coating comes with a five-year warranty. Wash it with hot soapy water between cakes, and rinse it well so no soap taste reaches the next one.

Hang it from a branch, a bracket or a shepherd’s hook, out of a squirrel’s jumping range if you can manage it. No personalization means nothing to proof, so it ships as cast.

If you’d like a different motif on the same cage, the bird feeders category has oak leaf and nuthatch versions. And the pine cone pattern carries over to a hose holder cast in the same aluminum, so the garden wall can match the feeder. The Pinecone suet feeder needs only a rinse to keep its finish.