Bird feeding from when?

When can you start feeding the birds?

• In England it has been fed all year round for decades. There is hardly any discussion about when it makes sense. It was found that birds still eat natural food and raise their young on this food.

• But it is only really necessary in winter when the snow cover is closed. Then wild birds suffer from a lack of food and are dependent on help. However, due to human overexploitation of nature, the natural habitat and with it the food supply is becoming scarce. It therefore makes perfect sense to feed them all year round.

• When you start bird feeding is up to you. The only important thing is that you do it regularly. Since birds get used to their feeding places, you should be able to ensure that the animals will continue to be looked after even after they have moved or during your vacation.

Food suitable for feeding birds

• With the native songbirds it is roughly between insects-, soft- and grain-eater differentiated. They have different needs for their food. The more varied you design your food offer, the more varied the bird visit will be.

• Grain eaters such as bullfinches, grosbeak and pigeons eat all kinds of grain and are not picky about what to eat. You can offer them sunflower seeds, oat flakes and all kinds of feed mixes for bird feeding.


Blackbird feed - feed the birds properly

Prepare blackbird feed according to the needs of the birds and give ...

• Soft-eaters such as blackbirds and starlings eat fruits and insects as well as seeds. Except for large, unpeeled sunflower seeds, they eat almost everything. Fatty feed, which consists of oiled oat flakes, is particularly popular.

• Insectivores, to which the tits belong, also eat seeds in winter. For them, you should prefer mixtures with small seeds, fatty foods and the popular tit dumplings.