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This year’s winter with its very changeable weather has not been very comfortable for our winter birds – in daytime there is thaw or rain, or often ice glaze, at night both bird food and tree branches freeze. And stormy days with blizzards when a good husband will not even send the dog out. From next week onwards frost is expected and the birds that that we have enticed to our gardens will survive the winter only thanks to our regular feeding.

 

Offer the birds unsalted  food: minced meat, lard; some  make a ”tit bell” from millet or oats and molten fat in an old food tin, some have a store of seeds or an oats sheaf made in autumn. Many buy bird food from shopping centres.

 

From early spring the winged friends will already take care that bugs will not be overrunning your garden.

 

 

 

FOOD MIX

for feeding birds in winter

COMPOSITION: sunflower seeds (80%), oats (10%), peanuts (10%). 
Supplementary food 
The mixture contains all essential nutrients that our birds need in winter. 
The mixture is recommended by journal LOODUSESÕBER 
Open packages should be stored in a dry place! 
100g of the product contains on average: energy 2411 kJ / 576 kcal, proteins 22,3g, carbohydrates 20,4g, fat 45,7g. 
Directions for use: 
Open the package, pour the needed amount of the mixture in the bird feeding place. Always have food in the feeding place or always add the food mixture at a certain time. 

NB! If you have started feeding birds be sure to go on doing so until spring! Birds used to getting additional food can perish if the food is not there.

 

Fat balls

for feeding birds in winter

Composition: wheat flour (52%), beef fat (22%), lard (7%), sunflower seeds (14%), sand (5%). 
Mixed food

Directives for use: 
Open the package and hang the fat ball in its net outdoors in an accessible place for the birds (for instance on a hook, nail or tree branch).

NB! If you have started feeding birds you must go on doing so until spring! Birds used to additional food may perish if the food is not there.

100g of the product contains on average: 
Energy 2506 kJ / 599 kcal, proteins 23,3g ,carbohydrates 33,2g, fat 41,5g

 

 

Bird food to suit all tastes: LINK