Purpose-built for fat balls and small birds, the Fat Ball Bird Feeder holds them securely in a wire cage so birds can peck at the suet without the whole ball being carried off. It's an easy way to offer fat balls in a controlled, mess-free way, and suits robins, starlings and blackbirds particularly well.
Fat Ball Bird Feeder
- TypeFat ball feeder
- Use withFat balls
- MountingHanging
- SKU:
- F066
Birds this brings to your garden
- Blue Tit
- Great Tit
- House Sparrow
- Starling
- Robin
Which birds turn up depends on your garden and the time of year. This is a guide to what this food is usually taken by, not a guarantee.
Technical Specifications
- Product Type Fat ball feeder
- Use With Fat balls
- Mounting Hanging
- Attracts Blue Tit, Great Tit, House Sparrow, Starling, Robin
How long will this bag last?
An estimate. Gardens vary with the season, the weather and how many feeders you keep going.
How we work this out
We allow about 6g of food a bird a day. Small garden birds take in roughly 3–7g a day in total, and a feeder supplies only part of that — the rest is insects, berries and whatever is growing nearby.
The bird numbers come from the RSPB's Big Garden Birdwatch. In January 2026, 9.4 million birds were counted across more than 650,000 gardens, an average of about 15 birds in a garden at any one time. We treat the birds you would see at once as the regulars using your feeders through the day. That is an assumption on our part, not a figure the survey provides. We are not connected with the RSPB.
A January count sits at the busy end of the year, so expect a bag to go further once natural food returns in summer. Squirrels and pigeons will empty a feeder far faster than any of this allows for.
Customer reviews
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