Bird Table News

I was going to sort myself out with my bird feeders, bird food and bird food containers.  I was going to get  ready for Autumn and Winter bird feeding.  I like to have a sort out, tidy things up and wash and clean all the containers in summer  - it’s too cold to do it in [...]

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Have just been topping up the bird feedrs and also  been melting some fat and coating some bird seed and scraps and moulding them into fatballs.  Have put together three different fatball recipies I use.  -
Recycled Scraps Fatball, 
Easy Peasy Fatball, 
The No-Fatball Fatball. 
 Interested - read more

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Different birds have different ways of feeding.   That’s one reason why I put out different feeders and different bird food. 
NUT FEEDERS are popular with members of the

tit family and finches. 
Sometimes they can be used by
sparrows and even
jackdaws.

SOME BIRDS THAT FEED ON SEEDS

Finches,
sparrows,
tits  Seed feeding birds have beaks that let them crack open the husk and get the seed from inside. Many [...]

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Should we feed bread to birds?  There have been some reports that bread is bad for birds and not very nourishing.
Bread is high in carbohydrates but lowish in protein.
Surely, if during a period of bad weather, there is there is a lack of high protein food for birds to feed their young ,then bread is better [...]

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Another way of feeding birds is to plant a variety of shrubs, bushes or even hedges. This is natural food for birds.
So next time you go to a garden centre - think British Bird. Ask what plants feed birds.
A bush needs planting once and provide fruit and shelter for our garden birds for [...]

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 Bird food - the feeder is now full of millet.  I now have a garden full of frantic sparrows trying to sort out their ‘pecking order’ to get the millet from the feeder.
Millet is good bird food because it has a good food to energy ratio.  That means when it is eaten it does not [...]

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