Carole, try mixing it with Peanut Butter and Corn Meal.  You'll have to
play with the proportions depending on how thick your syrup is.   You
can then spread it on a log, on pine cones, etc.
What size are these pancake house (IHOP, Waffle House?) jars?
Good Luck,
Karlynn
NC  USA

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> Dear all knowing Conch-Lers,
>  I needed small jars to preserve specimens and asked my local pancake
> house to save their syrup bottles for recycling. They were very kind
> but when I picked up the bottles many still had some syrup inside.
> Here is my question, does anyone have any idea what to mix this syrup
> with to make a recipe for wild birds. I was thinking of mixing in bird
> seed but what else would bind the bird seed and syrup? I don't really
> want it runny.
>  If anyone has any ideas, please let me know.
>  2nd question, I was told Everclear would be good to preserve
> specimens, in place of ethyl alcohol, but Everclear is apparently
> illegal in Florida having too great of a proof. (I refuse to use my
> moonshine for such a mundane task.) Does 154 proof grain alcohol work
> as well? No one sells ethyl alcohol any longer, apparently some people
> were drinking it.
>    At any rate, pancake syrup jars will work quite well for small
> specimens. If anyone else had this storage problem. Also, one of the
> Broward Shell Club members discovered Wal-Mart carries small screw top
> plastic beading containers. 24 for about $7.00.Very nice and sturdy
> about 1 inch in diameter and about 1 inch high. In the ribbon section.
> Very good for storing small shells.
>   Thanks for your help,
>           Carole Marshall
>

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