No, it’s a pork-plant!
The past week or two has seen snow over much of the UK. Here, in East Anglia it hasn’t been too bad: we have had about 6-8″ in total. This does limit feeding opportunities for the birds. Like many people we put out seeds and hang fat balls for the birds to feed on.
This year the snow coincided with the butchering of our neighbours pigs (that we have an interest in). This gave us lots of scraps of fatty skin which we decided to hang out on a tree for the birds to feed on – look closely and you can see areas where the fat has been pecked clean away.
Our dogs found the fat interesting:
We did give them some which got wolfed down but, like many Labrador dogs, they are greedy and wanted more!
I took several photos of this exercise, some closer up (like the first one shown above), and some to give context such as this one:
The full set of these photos can be seen in the Garden Gallery.