Gardening Advice & Tips for Irish Gardeners

There are many wild birds found throughout Ireland and many of these birds are common in back gardens across the country. It is possible to attract these wild birds into your garden with the different range of bird food available.

Today on the Garden Shop we want to give you a simple breakdown on what is the best food for attracting birds into your garden. With winter soon approaching now is the time to stock up on bird food that will help see our wild birds through the though and food scarce winter months. So what bird foods should you be using?  After reading our blog, you can see our selection of Bird Food & Bird Care products here.

High energy Fat Balls

These compressed balls of bird food pack in a variety of nutrients in the form of Cut wheat, Wheat Flour, Beef Suet, Cut Maize & Sunflower Seeds. They are a real favourite with wild birds including;

Blue tits, Great tits, Tree Sparrows, Robins, Bullfinch, Blackbird and Startling

Bird Peanuts:

Bird peanuts are also a highly nutritious food source for wild birds and keeps birds fit and healthy as they contain essential Vitamins, Oils & carbohydrates.  Peanuts provide nourishment for a range of birds right through the year, including:

Great Tit, Blue Tit, Chaffinch, Greenfinch, Woodpecker, Dunnock, Startling and House Sparrow

Bird Seeds

Bird seeds include a mix of various seeds including Cut Maize, White Millet Seed, Sunflower seed & other small seeds. They offer nutrients to keep wild birds healthy and active. Our brand of Cheeky boys wild bird seed has a low cereal formulation making it ideal for birds including:

Blue Tits, Great Tits, Sparrows, Finches, Starlings, Magpies, and Blackbird

Black sunflower seeds:

These are a very popular choice amongst a range of birds ad will keep your garden alive with the sound of birds when you use it. Having a high oil content, black sunflower seeds are ideal for a wide variety of wild birds including:

Great tit, Blue Tit, Chaffinch, Greenfinch, Woodpecker, Tree sparrows, House sparrow and other wild birds

When feeding remember to place feeders high up and out of reach of predators such as cats. Also if you being feeding wild birds be sure to condition feeding throughout the winter months as they come to rely on the food source that you provide them

When choosing a bird food type be sure the purchase a suitable and associated feeder for that product, i.e. wild bird peanuts require peanut feeder.

Remember to clean the bird feeder every so often to prevent the risk of disease and infection to birds using it and make sure that the food you are feeding them is still fresh – only put out enough food that the birds can finish within two days.

And lastly, take the time to watch and note what birds you see coming into your garden, as it is an enjoyable hobby and can offer many surprises!