Suet - the perfect winter warmer for your garden birds

Suet – the perfect winter warmer for your garden birds

Feeding suet to your garden birds throughout winter is one of the very best things you can do for them and here’s why:

They need fat to stay warm

Birds burn a lot of calories just maintaining their body temperature and eating suet helps them to replace energy lost overnight and reduces the risk of hypothermia. Suet is rich in fat, which provides a concentrated energy source to cope with cold weather and long winter nights.

Compensates for a lack of natural food

Insects are scarce during winter, berries have run out and frozen ground makes foraging for food difficult. Suet does a great job of filling that seasonal gap when nature’s larder is running on empty.

Easy to eat in freezing conditions

Food such as seeds can become hard and difficult to eat when the temperatures are icy, but suet stays soft enough to peck meaning that birds don’t have to waste precious energy working on it. It is enjoyed by a wide range of birds and could attract a colourful variety such as robins, coal tits, long-tailed tits, great tits, starlings, woodpeckers and wrens to your garden.

Boosts survival in harsh weather

Giving your garden birds regular access to suet, improves their chances of surviving cold snaps, snow and ice.

Encourages birds to remain in the area

Putting out a reliable food source, helps birds to stay close to your garden, increasing their chances of survival throughout winter.