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.
Suet-filled coconut halves offer birds a natural shape to cling onto while they feed, which makes them especially popular with acrobatic species like blue tits and great tits. Simply hang each half from a bracket, hook or coconut holder and let birds feed at their own pace; the suet filling provides a good source of energy through colder weather.
Buying a pack of 30 works out much better value and means you shouldn't run out mid-season.
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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