Bird Table News

Sunflower hearts are eaten by a lot of birds including

Blackbird
Blue Tit
Chaffinch
Coal Tit
Dunnock
Goldfinch
Great Tit
Greenfinch
House Sparrow
Robin
Starling
Woodpecker

Sunflower hearts are not eated by the

Song thrush
Collared dove

Sunflower hearts are a good alternative to peanuts.
I don’t want to feed starlings because they arrive in such a big swarm and completely take over everything.  This is what happened in August last year
Yet, [...]

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Birds nest and breed this time of the year.  It’s a busy time for birds.
Parent birds have work doubley  hard because they have to find enough food -

 for themselves, so that they can keep their strength up. 
to feed their youngsters so their baby fledglings survive and do  not die of starvation in the nest.

In spring and summer sunflower hearts will be welcomed [...]

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As you can see from the photo below black sunflower seed and nyjer seed are very similar.

But nyjer seed is so much smaller than black sunflower seeds. 
I’ve found it hard to feed nyjer seed to birds - if I put it on a birdtable it blows away with the slightest breeze.
I put it in a very small feeder but none [...]

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Have had a comment about  plants that birds eat.  It’s given me an idea to plant some of the sunflower seeds -
Last year I grew some sunflowers and left them to go to seed. I never actually managed to see any birds on them as they were right at the bottom of the garden almost hidden [...]

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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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I used to stop feeding the birds in Spring now I know that it’s best to feed them all year round.  In Spring our feathered friends have tiny beaks to feed.  Birds need all the help they can get when they are raising the next generation. 

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