Help garden birds through the winter

Use this guide from autumn onwards, when natural food becomes scarce. You need one or two feeders, a bird bath or shallow dish, suitable food and a stiff brush and mild disinfectant for cleaning.

Step by step

1. Choose good food

   Offer high-energy foods such as sunflower hearts, suet pellets or balls, nyjer seed and good-quality seed mixes. Put out soft apples or pears for thrushes and blackbirds. Avoid bread, salty foods, cooking fat from roasting tins and dry desiccated coconut.