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We have some great offers starting today. Save a whopping 20% off our 12.75 kg sacks of bird seed . Offer ends 28 February 2012. Subject to availability. To celebrate National Nest Box Week we've knocked 10% off all our nestboxes .

The countdown to the Big Garden Birdwatch is on! It’s now just three weeks until it’s time to sit down, perhaps in your favourite chair, and look out your window for just one hour, counting the birds in your garden. So, how can you make the most of your Birdwatch? Just how are you going...

So it’s the last week before the Christmas Holidays, and many of you will be breathing a sigh of relief and looking forward to a well deserved break. But until that time arrives, I suspect many of you will be enjoying your students’ enthusiasm for Christmas and doing lots of festive activities...

Save £2 on a 350 g pouch of RSPB Peck 'n' Mix bird food. Was £3.49 - Now just £1.49 RSPB Peck 'n' Mix is an irresistible bird food and delectable blend of dried mealworms (beetle larvae), juicy raisins and suet-based ‘Buggy nibbles’ (suet nibbles with...

We have some great new offers today. Get a box of 6x 100g pouches of Dried Mealworms for only £10 ! That's a massive saving of £19.94 off the price of 6 individual packs. Sunflower drops reduced to just £1.99 . These suet coated sunflower hearts were £3.49, you...

It's that time of year again folks! Feed The Birds Day is a great opportunity to get back in touch with your feathered friends as many of them will have been absent from the gardens in recent months. For their return we recommend a five step plan for giving them the finest of dining experience. You...

I love cooking - especially baking cakes. But while I think a lot about making food for myself, I'm ashamed to say that I don't often think about making something for the birds that visit my garden. But as I recently discovered, it's easy to make your birds a tasty treat. And as winter...

Right now you can save £5 off all our 12.75 kg sacks of RSPB bird seed and seed mixes. The RSPB's Feed the Birds Day takes place on Saturday 29 October 2011. This special day reminds us about all the things we can do to help birds and other garden wildlife through the winter. Birds really...

We have a fantastic new offer starting today. Spend £35 and get a pack of ten mealworm variety RSPB Super suet cakes HALF PRICE. This is a whopping £9.50 saving! These versatile suet cakes are great for a wide variety of garden birds. They are specially designed to be non-sticky, so...

Around the trail/hedges this morning were many migrant warblers - mostly whitethroats as far as I could tell, but also redstart, lesser whitethroat and willow warbler. On the north brooks, 2 ruff, 1 greenshank, 2 little ringed plover, 1 dunlin and at least 8 green sandpipers amongst about 100 lapwings...

Hi all, I live on a houseboat on the Medway estuary, Kent. Yesterday we noticed our resident mallard has a new broad of 7 chicks, unfortunately though last year we only saw the chicks for a couple of days and each day it was distressing to notice the number of chicks get less and less :( I'm wondering...

Hi there, All the birds are now back, I have noticed the Great Tits sit on the feeders chuck the seeds on the floor and then wait, and the pick the seeds up from the floor, eat them and then repeat it. Why are they doing this? Thanks Lauren

The red squirrel is such a symbol of the UK but is also a very rare sight. This little chap was making the most of the spring weather to forrage and was quite oblivious to us. The Isle of Wight is one of the strongholds of the red squirrel as we do not have any greys here who steal territory and food...

Hi there Dave and I where discussing foodstuffs that we can carry about with us while birding. The cold weather makes you want to eat more, and a cold day does bring the hunger pangs to keep warm. We try to eat healthy. Any hints and tips will be appreciated. {smile} We find at times the food...

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A robin visiting my garden on 4th January 2010 and stocking up on the extra food I'd put out in the harsh weather.

Hi there Just interested about the subject of birds and what they like to eat. Are Bees and Wasps on their diet sheet at all? Regards Kathy and Dave

This shows Pat, one of our staff on our cafe serving a tasty hot chocolate.

Over the last week or so I have noticed a reduction in the amount of food being eaten from my ground feeder - I'm guessing partly because of the weather and partly because I put a ground guard up which is stopping the woodpigeons from getting it all! Just wondering what you guys put out on the ground...

I wonder what he is thinking? A small flock of Starlings were in residence before I moved here; eating the bread and scraps my neighbours put out on a daily basis. However, the starlings now head for the high energy food and peanut feeders first.

Very shy when I first moved here but he soon got over that. He now lands close by when I am putting the food out.

Thank you very much all of you. I think I found some great ideas such as the use of hanging baskets, cut down the food (already done) and put fat cakes away from the feeders. I don't have many birds feeders: 2 with seeds (of which one is squirrel proof), 1 peanuts squirrel proof and 2 fat balls feeders...

Hi All. I live near the gravel pit lakes at Rickmansworth and have noticed that the birds seem quite keen to find out if I have food - even Moor Hens (normally fairly shy in my experience) have taken to following me around a little when I'm close to the lake (which is mostly frozen over). My question...

There has been a lot of chat on various recent threads about feeding birds, and I thought maybe we could share the ways we feed our birds. I have: 1. Sparrows Corner – immediately next to a leylandii hedge and a wooden trellis. A mesh tray on the trellis with my own yukky mix of seed, peanut...