Food for Long Tailed Tits

[Paul Miguel]

A couple of years ago I set up a feeding station to photograph small birds, using peanuts. I got some great shots of blue tits, great tits and woodpecker too, but even though there were long tailed tits around my hide they would never come down to the feeders - very frustrating!! Does anyone have experience of the long tails favoured food. I would think they are happy enough with peanuts.. but maybe they prefer something else..?

[Tails4wagging]

I have had them come down to peanuts when the winter really set in and we had snow. Didnt see them again after that though.

[Hedge Witch]

You could try suet cake I believe they like this.

[Kayleigh]

fat balls

[NickCantle]

Fat balls and wild seed mixes on bare soil Sounds odd but works for me!

[nutmeg]

The ones visiting my garden come to peanuts but also seem rather fond of fat balls.

[almostnormal]

fat bealls with lots of little seeds and broken up peanuts in the mix work pretty well specially if you habg them in relatively big bushes - they travel in family flocks and you often see them pass over littler bushes as they won't fit the full flock.

[Dae]

Yep, fat balls for mine too. They also like the suet blocks as well. When winter really sets in, they'll go for the peanuts as well.

[gillwrig]

I find that they like suet bird cakes and those coconut halves.

[Hedge Witch]

Originally Posted by almostnormal

they travel in family flocks and you often see them pass over littler bushes as they won't fit the full flock.

Never considered this before. I have only small shrubs at the moment so this is no good. Will will them to grow larger