Henry Bell Suet Coconut Half

Henry Bell Suet Coconut Half

A coconut shell half filled with set suet, cereals and seeds, sold ready to use. Henry Bell's own instruction is about as short as instructions get: purchase, unwrap and hang from a branch or a feeding station. There is no feeder to buy, nothing to decant and nothing to clean out afterwards — the shell is the feeder.

Suet in a solid block suits birds that cling and peck rather than perch and shell seed, which is why the species list runs from blue tits and coal tits through to starlings, dunnocks and robins. It is a useful thing to hang in a garden that has no feeding station at all, and a good winter top-up in one that has.

Performance & Benefits

• Ready to feed: unwrap it and hang it, with no feeder needed.
• Set suet blended with cereals and seeds, so it holds its shape rather than crumbling away.
• The coconut shell doubles as the container, so nothing is left to wash out.
• High-fat feeding suits cold weather, when small birds burn through reserves overnight.
• Henry Bell also make it in berry and mealworm versions, and in packs of six and ten.

Suitable For

• Robins, blue tits, coal tits, great tits, long-tailed tits, dunnocks, greenfinches, goldfinches, bullfinches, tree sparrows and starlings — the species Henry Bell list.
• Gardens with no feeding station, where a branch is the only hanging point.
• Winter and early spring feeding, and topping up a station that already carries seed.
• Anyone who would rather not handle loose feed.
• Not the right choice for ground-feeding birds that will not cling — a ground feeder with Henry Bell Calciworms or a seed mix suits blackbirds and chaffinches better.

Feeding

• Unwrap fully and hang from a tree branch, a hook or a feeding station arm.
• Hang it clear of a fence top or a wall where a cat could reach the feeding birds.
• Replace it once the suet has been worked out of the shell.
• Keep fresh water available nearby for drinking and bathing.

Composition & Analysis

• Composition: cereals, suet and seeds.
• Henry Bell publish no analytical constituents for the Suet Coconut Half — no protein, oil, fibre or ash figure — and no filled weight, so none is stated here.
• Henry Bell product code H020011 for the single half.
• The berry version adds raisins and rowan berries; the mealworm version adds mealworms.

Care & Caution

• Made for feeding wild birds. Not for human consumption.
• Contains nuts, and is packed in an environment where nuts are present — worth knowing if anyone in the household has a nut allergy.
• Remove and discard any wrapping or netting before hanging; loose netting catches birds' feet and beaks.
• Do not put out suet that has gone soft and sour in warm weather, or has grown mould.