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.
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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.
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