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 What birds like to eat – Home Cooking!

Recycle your kitchen scraps!  Don’t throw the kitchen scraps in the bin - feed the birds.

I have decided to put some information together on food you may have in your kitchen that can be used to feed the birds.  

Often we have scraps of food that are left over from a meal or food that is past it’s sell by date.

Here are some of the things I’ve put out on my birdtables to feed the birds.

There is also a note of the  type of birds that may eat it:

Cheese:
Blackbirds, song thrushes, robins and dunnocks like cheese. If you have the time grate some cheese, put it under a hedge or shrub – that will attract wrens.

Fruit:

I find birds like fruit.

I’ve recorded a bird trying to eat an apple – it was amusing. Birds like fresh apples and pears. Don’t throw away rotten or bruised apples or pears as starlings, tits and thrushes will enjoy them.

Bird cake, fat balls:
 These are very good all year round but especially in winter especially.

It’s very convenient to buy fatballs but they are easy to make as well.

ONE WAY TO MAKE A FAT BALL -

Melt some lard.  Then any or all of the following:

• oatmeal,
• cheese,
• seeds,
• nuts,
• dried fruit 

With this recipe It needs to be

• one third fat and
• two thirds should be the food mixture.

It’s very simple you just -

• Mix fat and food mixture together
• Put it in a container to set.

A bird-meal in minutes (well not quite).

I’m finding that the fat balls I have bought are being eaten just as quickly in summer as they were in winter. Strange but true.

Bread
 I was told that it’s best to soak bread in water before putting it on the bird table. I have also been told that it is not a very nutritional feed. But I find it gets eaten.

 I’m trying to find more home made feed for the birds. Can you help?

Tags: bird-feeding, bird-food, kitchen-scraps