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Feeding wild birds can bring you great pleasure as well as providing a valuable source of nutrition for our feather friends.

The main time to put food in the garden is in the winter when food is scarce. Many birds migrate to warmer climates but the ones that remain have to compete for food with birds that come to the UK from more northern countries than our own.

Suitable feed for wild birds would include fruit, nuts and seeds, leftovers including rice and cakes. You can feed bread but it should be soaked as dry bread swells in the bird’s stomach.