 | BirdsBird tables and feeders are easily found in shops and can be filled with seeds or peanuts to attract a variety of birds. Don't forget to sprinkle food on the ground for birds such as thrushes and dunnocks who like to feed at ground level. Peanuts will attract tits, greenfinches and woodpeckers, but ensure you buy them from reputable suppliers who will only sell peanuts free from Aflotoxin. Thrushes like rotting apples, and half a coconut hung up will be popular with nuthatches. Don't forget to keep the birdbath full of water for both feeding and bathing. With regard to bird-friendly plants, leave as many plants as possible to go to seed for they will provide seeds for the birds to eat. Cooked potatoes, rice, bread and pasta are also popular. Remember to clean the bird table regularly and to keep feeding once you start - the birds that come to visit you will rely on you and come back every day. |
What Can You Feed Particular Birds?
Blackbird - fruit, peanut granules, mealworms, earthworms
Blackcap - fruit, peanut cake with insects, black sunflower seeds
Blue Tit - peanuts, peanut cake, sunflower 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 mixes, 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)