What's on the menu tonight?

When you go to a restaurant or open the kitchen cupboards you like to be presented with a choice of tasty, nutritious dishes to tempt your taste buds.

Well so do the wild birds that visit your garden. The size, age, species all have a baring on what your feathered friends like to eat.

In a recent article on the BBC website, Tim Harrison from the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) said, "Basically, the thing you need to think about when providing different food for birds in your garden is that the reason why there are all these different species is because they all have slightly different requirements and they all have slightly different niches," explains Mr Harrison. "They all feed in slightly different ways and by doing that it means they're not in direct competition with each other."

Be careful when leaving kitchen scraps out - too much salt, sugar and other additives can be lethal to wild life. The graphic above gives an indication of the types of food different birds like to eat - from live mealworms for House Sparrows to Sunflower Hearts for Bullfinches - they all know what they like so you should take the time to study what types are visiting your garden and then lay on a spread that will keep them coming back.

Kennedy Wild Bird Foods sell a large range of bird seed and live food for all UK wild birds and we also have experts on hand to guide and assist you if you're not sure what you need - we're here to help.

Have a browse around our website (http://www.wildbirdfood.uk.com/acatalog/Bird_Section.html) and securely order online for next day UK delivery.

BTW - don't forget to leave plenty of fresh water in the shade during the hot summer months - your wild birds will need it for drinking & bathing in to keep themselves cool.

Bin It, Don't Kill It!

Bin It, Don't Kill It

Thousands of wild animals are needlessly killed every year by eating or being caught in our rubbish.

The RSPCA reports over 7,000 calls alone regarding litter-related injuries and deaths - and that is just the tip of the iceberg with many more going unnoticed or being reported directly to local vets.

Drinks cans, plastic bags, broken glass, tin cans etc can all be lethal death traps for unsuspecting, hungry wild animals hunting for scraps of food or drink. But it's not just household rubbish that creates often slow & painful deaths for our wildlife, chewing gum can be just as harmful.

Litter Kills Wildlife

From the sky, a piece of gum discarded on the pavement looks just like a tasty chunk of bread to our feathered friends but when the swallow it, the gum blocks their digestive system and prevents them from ingesting other nutrients or water and they will eventually die of dehydration and malnutrition.

This is entirely preventable by everyone - just take your rubbish home or dispose of it responsibly - it really is that simple.

At Kennedy Wild Bird Food we think there's no better site than seeing a wild bird using a bird feeder in a private garden or public park - why should they suffer and die because of our laziness?

Table for two?

The species of birds that rely and visit your garden for food will totally depend on the varieties and mixtures of feeds that you have available for them to eat. 

You should always remember that your garden, your bird feeders, and the variety and quality of feeds available represent a restaurant to birds. 

Like all good restaurateurs, to ensure that your tables remain full, one must maintain a selection of the finest and most nutritious feeds available.

You might have many bird restaurants around your residence, many of which may be 'cheep' takeaways, selling high priced corn-based feeds. 

All of our mixtures are blended to ensure the highest nutritional benefits by using only the finest seeds available from around the world.

All mixtures continue to undergo a most stringent testing programme to ensure that they are totally palatable. With over twenty years continuous research we are today extremely proud of our range of mixtures. These will ensure your tables and feeders are inundated with the many wonderful species which due to modern farming methods have become so reliant upon us all for their survival.

Please visit our website to see what's on today's menu - http://www.wildbirdfood.uk.com/TheResaurantChoice.htm