A great caged bird feeder to use is the Squirrel-Proof Tube Feederby Audubon Woodlink.  This caged bird feeder is made of a  green vinyl coated metal wire cage that surrounds a clear, plastic bird seed tube.  The cage has 1.5 inch openings in the wire to allow small songbirds to get inside the cage and feed from the bird feeder and prevents large birds and squirrels from getting into the cage area.  Small birds can get into the cage and feed from one of four perches on the bird seed tube. A cap at the top locks into place to prevent the squirrels from lifting up the cap at the top and getting into the bird seed.

The Domed Cage Bird Feeder by Droll Yankees is another caged bird feeder that makes feeding songbirds easy, while preventing squirrels from getting into the bird seed.  This caged bird feeder has a clear dome on the top in addition to the cage to prevent the squirrels from getting into the bird seed.  The bird seed tube inside has six ports and can hold up to 2.5 pounds of bird seed that won’t need to be refilled as often.  The cage wire is coated and has a 1.5 inch opening to allow small songbirds to come inside the cage and feed from the caged bird feeder.

You can hang suet chunks from a tree in an onion bag or half-inch hardware-cloth basket, or in a more durable cage feeder like the one shown here.

You can also make your own suet pudding and feeder. Suet puddings are made by grinding and melting suet and adding seeds. (There is no evidence that suet puddings are more attractive to birds than chunks of suet.)

Pack peanut butter-corn meal blends (when you mix the peanut butter with cornmeal it ot only stretches the expensive peanut butter but also makes this sticky treat easier to swallow) and suet puddings into the crevices of large pinecones or into one-inch diameter holes drilled into logs.

Hang the pinecones and the logs from poles near other feeders, from trees, or from a wire stretched between trees. Avoid feeding suet when temperatures climb into the 80 degree range unless the type of suet that you buy indicates that it will not melt; it turns rancid and drippy and may damage feathers. There are a number of very good no-melt suet cakes on the market.