Blue Tit Food & Feeding Guide

This small acrobatic species is easily identified, as it is the only British bird with a blue crown. It is a common (but always welcome) garden bird coming to bird tables and hanging feeders of all descriptions. It is very fond of peanuts and fat balls and at one time was very well known for piercing foil milk bottle tops to get at the cream.

It has a high mortality, especially during harsher winters and really benefits from the food we provide and the nest boxes we put up in our gardens. We are particularly lucky at present to have a high population of Blue Tits which is thought to be due to unnatural survival through the beneficial effects of our winter bird feeding.

The favoured bird food for Blue Tits coming to garden feeding stations is undoubtedly peanut kernels closely followed by fat balls. They will also take other mixtures containing nut granules such as Golden Chorus as well as Mealworms and Sunflower Seed.

A word of warning: please ensure peanuts are fed from a peanut feeder and cannot be taken whole during the nesting season as adults may try to feed them to their small youngsters with potentially tragic results.

Blue Tits will readily take to closed in nest boxes with a 25mm diameter entrance hole.

Buy bird food for Blue Tits below:

Blue Tit Food & Feeding Guide - Haith's

The Haith's Foreign Finch Feeding System

Experienced finch keepers rarely rely on a single food alone. A balanced finch diet typically combines a quality seed mix, conditioning foods, enrichment, essential minerals and additional nutritional support. Together these foods help maintain vitality, support breeding condition and encourage natural feeding behaviour.
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Daily Diet

Foreign Finch Mix

A balanced seed mix designed to provide the staple diet for foreign finches.
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Conditioning

Foreign Finch Tonic Food

A highly nutritious tonic food that supports feather quality, vitality and breeding condition.
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Enrichment

Millet Sprays

Encourages natural feeding behaviour and provides stimulation for active finches.
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Minerals

Fine Oystershell Grit for Cage Birds

Essential minerals that support digestion and provide a valuable calcium source.
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Health & Support

Cuttlefish Bone

Additional nutritional support to help maintain strong and healthy birds.

During Breeding & Rearing

During breeding season, finches require additional protein and nutrition to support egg production, chick development and feather growth.

Rearing Food

Rearing & Conditioning Food™ for Budgie & Canary Breeding and rearing

A high-protein softfood commonly used during breeding and chick rearing.

Conditioning Support

Condition Seed No Rape – A Gentle Boost for Peak Form

Helps support birds in peak condition before and during breeding.

Sprouting Seeds

Easisoak Seed™ - sprouting seed for canaries, British birds, hybrids & budgerigars

Sprouting seeds provide fresh, highly nutritious food that breeding birds thrive on.

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