Some simple advice on bird feeding

To print & pin on your notice board for reference:

 

The Garden Bird Feeding Year

 Winter: November - March

Fat: 

  • Suet and lard. Fat is 'high energy' food which helps birds build up and maintain the reserves they need for the cold weather

Seeds: 

  • Peanuts 

  • Black sunflower seeds

  • Sunflower hearts

  • Nyjer seeds

  • Millet

  • Flaked maize

  • Pinhead oatmeal

Make up mixes of fat and seeds in small ceramic dishes to put on the birdtable

Bread

Cooked potatoes

Cooked rice

Currants, raisins and sultanas

Fruit - half eaten or bruised too

Grated cheese

Mealworms

               

 

 Summer: April - October

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             High protein foods for while birds are mating, nest building, incubating, feeding chicks and also moulting and preparing to migrate:  

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  • Black sunflower seeds

  • Pinhead oatmeal

  • Water soaked currants, sultanas & raisins

  • Grated cheese

  • Mealworms

  • Waxworms

  • Fruit

  • Seed mixes without peanuts - Peanuts should only be fed in feeders with small mesh or as granules, so birds cannot take whole nuts on which their young would choke.

            

Try to establish a feeding routine, your birds will learn when to come to the table.

Remember to top up your bird bath, the water evaporates in windy and warm weather

as well as when it is hot.

For more detailed information, please click on this link to the RSPB website

for comprehensive advice on what it is safe to feed birds.

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