One way to help attract 10 types of Birds to your garden
Jan 19th, 2008 by Birdy Trish
Peanuts and birds go together. A lot of birds love peanuts. I put out peanuts every day along with other bird food.
Peanuts are rich in oil and protein and so are a good energy rich bird food to give to birds
Peanuts can be fed to birds in two ways -
- Whole Peanuts
- Crushed peanuts
In winter I put out both types for my garden birds.
IT IS POSSIBLE THAT YOUNG BIRDS CAN CHOKE ON WHOLE PEANUTS SO NEVER FEED WHOLE PEANUTS IN THE BREEDING SEASON. IN THE UNITED KINGDOM THIS IS BETWEEN APRIL AND SEPTEMBER.
I keep a hanging feeder full of peanuts and this attracts a flurry of birds.
CRUSHED PEANUTS
Crushed peanuts are easily digested by birds and I put them on the two bird tables and inside the meshed ground feeder.
WHOLE PEANUTS
I also put a few whole peanuts on the birdtables and inside the meshed ground feeder. Blue tits and other birds hop onto the bird table, pick up a whole peanut and hop off again into the hedge.
Birds I attract to my garden through feeding peanuts
- Blue Tits
- Coal tits
- Dunnocks
- Great tits
- Greenfinch
- Siskin
- Song Thrush
- Chaffinch
- and the pesky Starling
I’ve also had a Woodpecker clinging to my peanut feeder.
If you are you just starting to feed birds or if you’ve been feeding birds for years peanuts are a good source of energy for birds and will help you attract birds to your feeders.
Tags: blue-tits, chaffinch, dunnocks, greenfinch, peanut-feeder, peanuts, starlings, thrush, thrushes, woodpecker
