Bird Table News

I was once told that long, long ago songbirds could well have been helped through the freezing winters by wild boar and wild cattle.
The wild boar would look for food on the ground in winter. The ground could well be frozen hard or covered in snow making it hard for songbirds to survive. [...]

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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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Birds find it hard to survive in winter.  I wonder if birds look forward to summer.  I’m fed up with winter at the moment. 
In winter it’s nice to think of  summer days when there’s sun and colour and fruit on the bush. 
I’ve been looking back to my summer of 2007
A summer day in 2007
Immersed  in  nature in [...]

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We should be feeding our wild birds all the time. 
A lot of people think that birds should ONLY be fed in the winter months when birds need a high proportion of fat to stay fit, healthy and alive.  This is wrong.  Birds benefit from being fed all year round.
WINTER FEEDING  
Food is important in winter because:

Winter days are short [...]

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I’ve heard from another birding enthusiast who is having trouble with large birds eating all the food from the bird table.  It’s great to hear from people who are interested in birds and to share our problems and hopefully find a solution.
He, like me, agrees that you get a great view of birds when they [...]

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I woke up to a winter’s scene.  Snow had covered the ground and the garden pond was frozen, so I knew I’d best feed and water the birds straight away.
It’s noon and I’ve put bird food out for the garden birds  3 times this morning already.

When I got up in the early morning gloom.  Before I [...]

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