Great Spotted Woodpecker Food

The great spotted has become the most familiar woodpecker due to regularly visiting bird-tables in observers' gardens.

When searching for food a Great Spotted Woodpecker usually perches on the trunk then works upwards and often from side to side. During the ascent it smartly taps the bark, prising off fragments and frequently extracting food from crevices with the tip of its sticky tongue.

During spring and summer, it feeds largely on insects, especially ants and the larvae of wood-boring beetles. Holes may be chiselled up to four inches deep. But in autumn and winter, they like to feed on a variety of fruit, seeds and nuts.

Both sexes drum on trees, starting in January and continuing until late June. Usually, a new nest is bored each spring rarely less than 10 to 12ft from the ground and often considerably higher. Both parent woodpeckers excavate and this task occupies between two and three weeks. The creamy white eggs, five to seven in number, are laid during the second half of May.

If you want a Great Spotted Woodpecker in your garden there's no better food than Peanuts and suet to put out.

Buy bird food for Great Spotted Woodpeckers below:

Great Spotted Woodpecker sat on a branch

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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