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.