The Latest Bird Cookies

Time to make some new bird cookies!

This time I did not follow a specific recipe, although it is right in line with the bird treats I have made before. The basic pattern for all these is 1 cup of the dry ingredients, such as buckwheat or whole wheat flour, etc, plus a little less that a cup of some combination of brown or wild rice, quinoa, soaked seeds, nuts and died fruit and vegetables, etc.

For this one I did not use flour, but instead ground up several types of seeds from Whole Foods in a coffee grinder.

I also had this heat and serve bird food so I decided to include. It includes a variety of ingredients. Made up, it resulted in about a cup. All the bird love this stuff by the way.

I also tossed a few Harrison's pellets in the coffee grinder along with a few walnuts.

Died kale too...

With the approximately 2 cups of everything described above, I added one egg and some cooked sweet potato.

One thing I did that I have not done before was to include the eggshell. After I dropped the egg in, I microwaved the shell, then dropped that in too. The egg shell adds extra calcium.

So, yes, these bird treats will be quite a bit less "human friendly".

It all got mashed it all into a dough...

...and fried in coconut oil.

These don't look all that appetizing, They came out a brown color for some reason.

But they are a big hit for all the birds! And very healthy for them too.

By the way, I don't think I have mentioned this in prior posts about this sort of bird bread, but they are perishable. Store them in the freezer.

Find more about bird foods here.