Bird Table News

Hi, Below is a short video of a really good bird feeder I bought. I’m just learning to use this video so sorry for the few seconds at the end where you see the path!!

Boring?! Well no. This feeder means a lot of smaller birds can feed in safety - away from predators. It also [...]

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I’ve just seen a photograph of a blackbird clinging to a feeder trying to eat the peanuts inside.
I’ve never seen that before.
Blackbirds are supposed to be ground feeding birds although I do get them on my bird table a lot. 
 Has anyone else heard or seen blackbirds clinging onto peanut feeders?

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Peanut Granules are brilliant bird food  they are power packed with proteins and oil which makes them a nourising nibble for our garden birds.
Peanut granules are one of the types of bird food that I put out every day and the birds go mad for them.

Using peanut granules as bird food gives birds  energy for [...]

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I’ve been looking into feeding peanuts to birds and it seems a very complicated issue - to me anyway.
Not feeding peanuts to birds is nothing to do with peanuts being bad for birds, which is what I first thought when I heard about this issue.
Not feeding peanuts to birds is about the possible scarcity of peanuts because [...]

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Feeding peanuts to birds is now thought of as a bad thing.  I have just been told this, but I don’t believe that feeding peanuts to birds is bad! 
Birds love peanuts.
It must be wrong to say don’t feed peanuts to birds. 
Surely feeding peanuts to birds is a good thing.
I’ve been feeding birds for over ten years and have [...]

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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 [...]

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