baby birds

[jamie_from-kent]

We have starlings nesting in a space in our roof and there appears to be a few babies up there. I think both parents regularly take food up to them and you can see them with their mouths wide open when they are waiting to be fed.
The RSPB said you should not feed bread to birds because it is not nutritious and it will fill them up so they will not eat other nutritious foods.

[witham]

No, it's not a good idea to feed any birds dry bread especially young birds, if you do want to leave any out for them at a later date when the fledlings are older, it's best to soak it first or even put it in a saucer of water, if they eat too much when it's dry as Starlings especially are liable to do as they seem such greedy birds, they fill themselves up and it's very hard for them to digest it and then when they have a drink it swells up inside them and can even kill them,we don't even give our chickens too much as it has been known to kill even a bird of that size, crisp toast is the exception and doesn't seem to do them as much harm as they can't eat it in such big bits as they have to peck at it more

[Kayleigh]

The word from the the RSPB is NO BREAD soaked or otherwise.
It has NO nutritional value whatsoever.
It fills the birds up, they can starve especially in winter when they need fat, (peanuts in feeders this time of year) ect...

Put out seeds and other things like fatballs and NO BREAD.

[jamie_from-kent]

ok i will stop putting out bread but i do have fatballs and peanuts and seed aswell so they do have a choice i dotn just feed them bread! Also they do have a bird bath seeing as we having some hot, dry days at the moment