If you love wild birds and live in areas of the country that get cold and snowy in the winter, you probably help out the local birds by providing them with nutritious suet that helps them survive the frigid winters.

Suet provides much needed energy to help birds generate heat. Most wild bird suets on the market are supplemented with fruit, nuts and other ingredients that add nutrition to the meal.

This unique automatic suet ball feeder from Duncraft uses inexpensive balls of suet that drop into place one at a time. At one ball is consumed by woodpeckers and other wild birds, another ball drops into place, which means that you can fill the feeder with suet and not have to refill it for quite some time. This automatic suet ball feeder holds up to five balls of suet.

Duncraft also offers seed balls with special blends of dried berries and nuts, so you can use the feeder all year round. There is even a no-waste type of seed ball that contains sunflower chips, peanut bits, cracked corn and Nyjer seed that leaves no shells or debris.

At less than $25, this is a very inexpensive gadget gift for Dad or for your own back yard.

You can find the Automatic Ball Feeder at Duncraft: