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What to Feed

A wide variety of food will attract greater numbers of different wild birds. They also feed in fifferent ways. Some birds eat from a bird table, others prefer suspended feeders or foraging on the ground below.

Bird
Peanuts
Peanut Granules
Seed Mix
Sunflower Seed
Niger Seed
Fats
Meal Worms
Fruit
Preference
Blackbird
 
 
 
 
Ground or Bird table
Bluetit
 
 
Feeders
Bullfinch
 
 
 
 
 
 
Feeders
Blackcap
 
 
 
 
 
 
Bird table
Chaffinch
  
  
  
  
  
  
Ground
Coal Tit
 
 
 
 
Feeders
Collared Dove
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Ground
Dunnock
 
 
 
 
 
Ground
Goldfinch
 
 
  
 
Feeders
Greater Spotted Woodpecker
 
 
 
 
Feeders
Great Tit
 
 
 
 
 
Feeders
Greenfinch
 
 
 
 
 
 
Feeders or Ground
House Sparrow
 
 
 
 
 
 
Feeders or Ground
Long-tailed Tit
 
 
 
 
 
Feeders or Trees
Nuthatch
 
 
 
 
 
Feeders or Trees
Robin
 
 
 
 
 
Ground or Bird table
Siskin
 
 
 
 
 
Feeders
Song Thrush
 
 
 
 
Ground
Starling
 
 
 
 
 
Ground or accessible feeders
Wren
 
 
 
 
 
 
Ground only small scraps

 

 

 

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