Blue & great tits favourite foods?

[hels]

So I know there's blue/great tits around my garden but they rarely come in to feed (that I have seen). Currently, I have feeders with sunflower hearts, sunflower seeds, seed&insect suet nibbles and a tit seed mix.

I know they like the suet nibbles, but the starlings are outcompeting the tits for those, I also know that the tit seed mix is being eaten, but I've only ever seen a greenfinch on that feeder.

Any suggestions for other foods they might like?

Thanks! :-)

So it appears that the starlings are eating/throwing most of the tit seed on floor, which is why that is going down so fast!

On the plus side I have just spotted my very first Robin in my garden :-)

[astarsdad]

Hi,

You appear to have the right sort of foods to attract tits. There may be other reasons for them not visiting your garden. I am blessed with having lots of tits in the garden. Coal tits, Great tits, Blue tits and Long tailed tits. The tits go for black sunflower seed and hanging fat balls. There is a lot of cover in the garden which I do think is important and I have a lot of nesting boxes dotted around the garden for them to roost. I hope this helps.

Terry

[artdemole]

Sunflower seeds do it for my visiting birds.Black or striped they have a go at both.

[rossy]

put another feeder up and half fill it with nuts, also put nuts on your trays. they are also partial to mealworms as are a lot of birds. rossy.

[hels]

Thanks for the advice everyone! I have just been and bought one of those small bird adjustable feeder thingys. So I will put a mix of foods in that and see if that works.

I've seen a couple in and out today I think it's just that the starlings are robbing everything in sight that is the issue for them.

I also now have a new quest, to entice the robin I saw this morning back in!
:-D

[roseway]

You certainly need bushes nearby. What the tits tend to do is grab a sunflower seed and take it back into the bushes to nibble. If everything is quiet they will eat the seeds in situ, but if other birds are around they seem to prefer to take the seed away.

[actionfinch]

Yeah mine do that to Roseway....
as far as the robin goes sprinkle some loose bird mix if u have some one the garden if not the ones i have in the garden love the bird table...
so fussy some birds aint they...

[rossy]

Originally Posted by roseway

You certainly need bushes nearby. What the tits tend to do is grab a sunflower seed and take it back into the bushes to nibble. If everything is quiet they will eat the seeds in situ, but if other birds are around they seem to prefer to take the seed away.

the main reason for the tits to take the food is to not get predated, in the open they can come under attack from sparrowhawks, so they go for cover, rossy.