What to feed your garden birds

What to feed your garden birds?

There are a wide range of ready prepared Wild bird seed mixes on the market to meet the dietary requirements and palate of your garden birds. These mixes cater for birds that prefer to feed from feeders, a bird table or from the ground Each one offers a variety of seeds that help to attract the widest array of bird species into your garden.

Seed mixes.

Some mixes are especially formulated to include smaller seeds & grain in them which tend to encourage the smaller bird varieties such as dunnocks, tits, sparrows & finches into the garden. These mixes are well received when fed from a seed feeder. Feeding from a seed feeder gives the birds a better sense of security as they are out of reach from cats and are more adapted to hanging from a feeder than some of the larger bird species. Try our Luxury wild bird food a popular small seed mixture to attract those smaller bird species.

Other mixes are formulated to include slightly larger seeds & grains more suited to the larger birds such as the blackbird, thrushes, doves and fieldfare. These are best fed from the ground or a bird table.
Our Ground & table food mix is extremely popular with these garden visitors, idea to feed from the table, the ground or a ground feeder tray.

If you want to feed a bird mix that has naturally less waste and mess then we recommend you try the High energy No Mess. This mix is well received by all bird species, can be fed from a seed feeder, a table or the ground and contains sunflower hearts rather than black or striped sunflowers. Therefore there’s less waste & mess in your garden from the sunflower husks that birds leave found in mixes containing black & striped sunflowers.

Specialist mixes.

Peanuts

Peanuts – these are a firm favourite with all garden birds and can be purchased whole, already granulated, or from their shells. Peanuts are rich in fat and a high energy food popular with most birds. Peanuts should only be fed whole from a suitable feeder during the spring and summer to ensure the young fledgling don’t choke on the whole peanuts as they learn to feed.
Whole peanuts can be fed during Autumn & Winter from the table or the ground as well as a suitable feeder. 

Peanut granules are particularly popular with robins, wrens & dunnocks.

Peanuts in shells can be threaded onto string to supply a natural hanging feeder for those small birds in your garden – fed in this way bird have to linger longer while they master the art of pecking through the shells to get to their food.