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.
Fat balls are about as easy as bird feeding gets: hang one in a wire feeder or simply place it on a bird table and birds will find it quickly. Our Selected Fat Balls provide a concentrated, energy-dense feed that's popular with robins, starlings and blackbirds, and they're a great way to give visiting birds a reliable boost through autumn and winter.
This pack of 6 is perfect for trying it for the first time or keeping just one or two feeders going.
Feeders sold separately. Whatever you hang it from, site it within a short flight of a hedge or shrub — birds will not settle at a feeder with no cover to bolt to.
An estimate. Gardens vary with the season, the weather and how many feeders you keep going.
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.
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