Bird seed sunflower
Natural garden bird foods
Sunflowers have long been loved by gardeners for their colour and texture and by birds for their seeds. Its difficult to find better garden bird foods.
Black sunflower seeds are an excellent year-round food, rich in oil and protein. For some birds they are even more popular than peanuts.
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Black sunflower seeds are some of the best garden bird foods as they are high in protein and good for parent birds and their fledglings. Sunflower seeds are valuable all year round but particularly during the summer months when birds are moulting.
As with all garden bird foods, be sure to hang the feeder in a position where the birds can eat safely without being attacked by cats!
If you put out bird food, it is important to put it out all year round. Although winter feeding benefits birds most, food shortages can occur at any time of the year so summer feeding is also important. And don’t forget to provide water. Birds like a drink with their food.
For blackbirds, song thrushes and other members of the thrush family, put out fruit, such as apples and pears. Put the fruit on a bird table or suspend it in a fruit bird feeder.