Feeding garden birds

Feeding garden birds

Birds are finding fewer and fewer suitable feeding sites as our built-up areas become more densely built up. Fallow land with seed-rich plants and insects is increasingly giving way to concrete and asphalt. Shrubs and trees that provide natural shelter and nesting opportunities are also rare.

Bird-friendly gardens can compensate for that loss and offer birds a good home in built-up areas. Birds like a varied garden with native plants and shrubs, berries, insects, a patch of grass and preferably not too neat. There they find plenty of food. Many people enjoy birds close to home. Supplemental feeding allows birds to show up even more often.

We have listed some easy-to-implement tips about feeding well, which birds eat what, when it's best to supplement and how to offer bird food. How much and what kind, for this the environment where you live is everything.
It is always best to choose a compound food in which all the necessary nutrients are mixed.

1. Blackbird: Table Blend, Ground Blend, 4 Seasons, Dinner Feast.

2. Blue Tit: Stuffed coconuts, all feeders, No Mess Mix, Clean Garden, 4 Seasons, Diner Feast, Feeder Blend, mixes with peanuts.

3. Finch: Finches & Friends, All feeders, Table Blend, Ground Blend, 4 Seasons, Dinner Feast.

4. Great spotted woodpecker: Stuffed coconuts, mix with peanuts.

5. Great Tit: Stuffed coconuts, all feeders, mixes with peanuts, No Mess Mix, Clean Garden, Insect&Seed Mix, Super Mix, Mega Mix, Mealworms.

6. Greenfinch: Cold at Night, No Mess Mix, all feeders, stuffed coconuts.

7. House Sparrow: All feeders, Feeder Blend, Table Blend, No Mess Mix, Clean Garden, Young Life. Robins: Cold at Night, Mealworms, Stuffed coconuts, Insect Larvae Feeder, Mega Mix, Insect&Seed Mix.

What other foods exist for birds in your garden or on your patio? And what can you give your feathered friends in addition to the main meal? Check out our complete assortment for garden birds here: