Birds

BIRDS

Bird tables and feeders are easily found in shops and can be filled with seeds or peanuts to attract birds. Don't forget to sprinkel food on the ground for birds such as thrushes and dunnocks who like to feed at ground level. Peanuts will attarct tits, greenfinches and woodpeckers and ensure they are safe and free from Aflotoxin. Thrushes like rotting apples and half a coconut hung up will be popular with tits and nuthatches. Leave as many plants as possible in the garden to go to seed for they too will provide seeds for birds to eat, such as Teasels. Cooked potatoes, rice, bread and pasta are also popular food.

What Can you Feed the Birds?

Blackbird - fruit, peanut granules, mealworms, earthworms

Blackcap - fruit, peanut cake with insects, black sunflower seeds

Blue Tit - peanuts, peanut cake, sunfloewr hearts, black sunflower seeds, seed mixes

Bullfinch - sunflower hearts, seed mixes

Chaffinch - peanut granules, sunflower hearts, seeds

Collared Dove - mixed corn, seed mixes, table seeds, grain

Dunnock - nyjer seed, seed blends, pinhead oats

Goldfinch - sunflower hearts, nyjer seed, black sunflower seeds, peanuts, seed mixes

Great Tit - peanuts, peanut cake, seed mixes, sunflower hearts

Greenfinch - black sunflower seeds, sunflower hearts, seed mixes

House Sparrow - mealworms (in breeding season), sunflower hearts, seed mixes

Robin - mealworms, waxworms, peanut granules, sunflower hearts, pinhead oats

Siskin - sunflower hearts, peanuts, black sunflowers, nyjer seed

Song Thrush - fruit, earthworms, mealworms, peanut granules

Starling - scraps, seed mixes, peanut cake, live foods

Wren - mealworms, waxworms, grated cheese, finely chopped peanut cake

(adapted from CJ Wildbird Foods catalogue)