What can i feed the birds in summer?

[JV]

Now that fat cakes melt and natural food is about what can i feed the birds in
* A mesh feeder
Right now i have rasins in there

* 2 seed feeders
Right now I have a robin food mix(sunflower seeds/ suet pellets/meal worms/grains) mixed with sunflower hearts IN ON FEEDER

and
bird seed mix (sunflower seeds/grains) mixed with COMPLETLEY crushed peanuts

*Bird cake holder
Right now I have WET bread (I know! no nutritional value!)

*table
Right now I ahve oats

* i also have a fatball feeder. (Store brought balls) the birds love them


I also scatter dried mealworms on the floor (On concrete so they can find it)
and a bruised apple on top of the bird feeder pole

Is this ok for summer and is there anything else i can do?

Thank you!

[forestwildlife]

I have a bird cake feeder which I take down in summer, no need for it. I still buy bird cakes when I place my food orders though, stocking up for the winter.

I still feed fatballs but instead of 4/5 I only feed 2 at a time.

I have 2 seed feeders, one with nyger for the Goldfinches and the other with the RSPB's no more mess sunflower mix. All the birds love this, brings in the Chaffinches, Greenfinch and Siskins, which are normally absent.

I also feed the RSPB table mix on a floor feeding tray an a feeding station.

I also feed dried mealworms but spread them around a bit near the edges of the garden etc so that the Starlings don't eat them all.

I also have a peanut feeder with suet nibbles in, basically small tubes of suet with bits of nut, insect etc in. They love these.

What you are feeding seems to be fine, if you want to increase the variety of birds coming to your garden you want to increase the variety of foods you provide. But you have a nice range there.

For the things that potentially melt I only put half of what I'd normally put out, it means you got to fill it more often but better than wasting it.

You don't mention if you have a bird bath/ water bowl?

[JV]

Originally Posted by forestwildlife

I have a bird cake feeder which I take down in summer, no need for it. I still buy bird cakes when I place my food orders though, stocking up for the winter.

I still feed fatballs but instead of 4/5 I only feed 2 at a time.

I have 2 seed feeders, one with nyger for the Goldfinches and the other with the RSPB's no more mess sunflower mix. All the birds love this, brings in the Chaffinches, Greenfinch and Siskins, which are normally absent.

I also feed the RSPB table mix on a floor feeding tray an a feeding station.

I also feed dried mealworms but spread them around a bit near the edges of the garden etc so that the Starlings don't eat them all.

I also have a peanut feeder with suet nibbles in, basically small tubes of suet with bits of nut, insect etc in. They love these.

What you are feeding seems to be fine, if you want to increase the variety of birds coming to your garden you want to increase the variety of foods you provide. But you have a nice range there.

For the things that potentially melt I only put half of what I'd normally put out, it means you got to fill it more often but better than wasting it.

You don't mention if you have a bird bath/ water bowl?

I have a pond where all the birds drink and bathe.

I also mixed in
suet pellets in the mesh feeder along with rasins to add variety. No intrest yet though.

I also took out the seed mix with
sunflower seeds and replaced it with hearts and crushed peanuts.

Thank you for your comment!

[witham]

it is ok to put peanuts in your mesh feeder we still have a couple out which are used regularly by the tits, starlings and woodpecker, as long as they can't get to whole ones it's perfectly ok, I'm using nearly as many fat balls as I do in the winter I get hoards of starlings who devour them nearly as fast as I put them out, I also feed wild bird food, blackbird and robin mix, sunflower hearts and nyger seed