Bird Food

Support your garden birds all year round with the best quality bird food blended for every season. From fledglings in spring to energy-rich winter mixes, our expertly curated blends and recleaned seeds help birds thrive no matter the weather. Discover the best bird food for your feeders and the changing needs of birds, from summer protein to winter calories.

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  • See the difference peanut suet tub cake 800g Long-tailed tit enjoying a suet tub cake

    See the Difference™ Peanut Suet Tub Cakes 800g

    From £6.95
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    • Ultra high fat large suet tub cakes with twice the fat of 10 major brands
    • Rich and moist, packed with nutritious ingredients including peanut protein flour
    • Full of energy giving calories, making every trip to the bird feeder worth more
  • National Trust Insect Peanut Suet Cake

    National Trust Insect Peanut Cake 500ml

    From £4.95
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    • Nutritious: High energy food for all insect eating birds
    • Supportive: Every purchase contributes to the work of the National Trust
    • Easy To Use: Includes hanging hook
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    Flutter Butter Pod Refills Mixed

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    • Environmentally friendly: 85% less plastic than Flutter Butter® Pods
    • Nutritious: packed full of protein and calories for energy
    • Convenient: fits easily into an empty Flutter Butter® Pod
  • Fine Oystershell Grit

    Fine Oystershell Grit

    From £4.35
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    • Vital: soluble calcium for healthier eggs, strong bones, and improved digestion
    • Essential: supplement for springtime but beneficial to bird health all year round
    • Grits and soluble calcium: suitable for all wild birds, chickens, and aviary
  • Flutter Butter Buggy; Peanut Butter salt free is ideal for birds; Tits enjoying Flutter Butter Buggy; Flutter Butter Pods in Feeder Flutter Butter Buggy; Peanut Butter salt free is ideal for birds; Tits enjoying Flutter Butter Buggy; Flutter Butter Pods in Feeder

    Flutter Peanut Butter Pods Buggy

    From £7.95
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    • Nutrient-rich: packed full of peanut and insect protein for bird health
    • Appetising: combined with insects to make it a palatable food choice for birds
    • Finest quality: complete food made with 100% natural ingredients
  • See the Difference Peanut Suet Cakes; Blue Tits Feasting on Peanut Suet Cake See the Difference Peanut Suet Cakes; Blue Tits Feasting on Peanut Suet Cake

    See the Difference™ Peanut Suet Cake 340g

    From £6.95
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    • Ultra high fat content suet blocks with twice the fat of 10 major brands
    • Rich and moist, packed with nutritious ingredients including peanut pieces
    • Full of energy giving calories, making every trip to the bird feeder worth more
  • Ultimate best bird food bundle great value Ultimate Wild Bird Food Bundle
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    Ultimate Wild Bird Food Bundle

    £40.24
    £40.24
    £47.35
    • Attract More Birds to Your Garden: Our premium selection for you to attract more species, even more birds, and more often
    • Quality Nutrition: No waste, no fillers, every ingredient is premium grade and beneficial for birds, nothing goes uneaten
    • Value & Convenience: This single bundle gives you all the bird food your garden needs, simply and cost-effectively
  • Pinhead Oatmeal Blue Tit in a glass bowl filled with pinhead oats

    Pinhead Oatmeal

    From £4.95
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    • Nutritious: Finely chopped oats, the most nutritious inner part of the oat
    • Supportive: Feed to the birds on their own or in a favourite mix
    • Versatile: Enjoyed by hedgehogs with other scraps and fruit
  • National Trust Seed & Peanut Suet Cake

    National Trust Seed Peanut Cake 500ml

    From £4.95
    From £4.95
    • Nutritious: High energy food for a wide range of garden birds
    • Supportive: Every purchase contributes to the work of the National Trust
    • Easy To Use: Includes hanging hook
  • Rolled (Porridge) Oats;Robin feeding on Rolled (Porridge) Oats Rolled (Porridge) Oats;Robin feeding on Rolled (Porridge) Oats

    Rolled Porridge Oats

    From £4.95
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    • Nutritious: A great energy value food source, particularly loved by songbirds
    • Supportive: Feed to the birds on their own or in a favourite mix
    • Versatile: Suitable for Table or Ground feeding
  • See the difference mixed seed suet tub cake 800g Long-tailed tit enjoying a suet tub cake

    See the Difference™ Seed Suet Tub Cakes 800g

    From £6.95
    From £6.95
    • Ultra high fat large suet tub cakes with twice the fat of 10 major brands
    • Rich and moist, packed with nutritious ingredients including mixed bird seeds
    • Full of energy giving calories, making every trip to the bird feeder worth more
  • See the Difference Mixed Seed Suet Cakes; Woodpecker Feasting on a Suet Cake Great Tit eating a suet in feeder

    See the Difference™ Seed Suet Cake 340g

    From £6.95
    From £6.95
    • Ultra high fat content suet blocks with twice the fat of 10 major brands
    • Rich and moist, packed with nutritious ingredients including mixed seeds
    • Full of energy giving calories, making every trip to the bird feeder worth more
  • Flutter Butter Starter Pack feeder and 2 refills Flutter Butter refill insert to empty pod

    Flutter Butter Pod Refill Starter Pack

    £10.95
    £10.95
    • Nutritious: protein packed rich, nutritious Flutter Butter
    • Convenient: everything you need to get started with a feeder, empty pod and two refills
    • Environmentally friendly: flutter butter pods and refills are fully recyclable
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    Flutter Peanut Butter Pods Fruity

    From £7.95
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    • Complete: a blend of salt-free peanut butter with added fruit
    • Versatile: place on a bird table or hang in a Flutter Butter feader
    • Healthy: packed with peanut proteins and nutrient-rich fruits
  • Flutter Butter Refills Fruity; Flutter Butter Pod Refills 80% less plastic; Birds fight over Flutter Butter; Peanut Butter for Birds Flutter Butter Refills Fruity; Flutter Butter Pod Refills 80% less plastic; Birds fight over Flutter Butter; Peanut Butter for Birds

    Flutter Butter Pod Refills Fruity

    From £18.95
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    • Environmentally friendly: 85% less plastic than Flutter Butter® Pods
    • Nutritious: packed full of extra fruit for vitamins
    • Convenient: fits easily into an empty Flutter Butter® Pod
  • Flutter Butter for Birds - Fruity; Peanut Butter Feeder; Optional Flutter Butter Feeder Flutter Butter for Birds - Fruity; Peanut Butter Feeder; Optional Flutter Butter Feeder

    Flutter Peanut Butter Fruity

    From £3.95
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    • Glass jar 320g, packed full of peanut protein and fruit, high in energy giving calories.
    • Attract more birds to your garden
    • A quick, clean and easy way to feed your garden visitors
  • Bird food for hanging feeders Bird food uk bird feeder
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    Essential Bird Food Bundle

    £54.20
    £54.20
    £67.75
    • Premium-grade bird food bundle - with zero fillers and zero waste
    • Attract the widest variety of garden birds particularly small tits and finches, robins and blackbirds  - perfect for year round feeding
    • Enjoy feeding your birds for less with our convenient bundle of clean, nutritious bird food - that leaves no mess or waste to clear up
  • Mini Mealworms Livefood Robin with beak full of live mini mealworms

    Live Mini Mealworms

    From £11.25
    From £11.25
    • Suitable for young nestlings
    • Insectivorous aviary birds also enjoy these
    • Please Note: These items are posted directly from the Live Food Farm by Royal Mail 1st class post and do not count towards your £30 basket total.
  • food for live mealworms Live mealworms in powdered food

    Mealworm Food 250g

    £2.50
    £2.50
    • Natural bran product
    • Keeps live mealworms fresh for longer
    • Please Note: This item is posted directly from the Live Food Farm by Royal Mail 1st class post and does not count towards your £30 basket total.
  • Best Robin bird food to attract robins in your garden Robin & Songbird Food Bundle
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    Robin & Songbird Food Bundle

    £35.36
    £35.36
    £41.60
    • Attracts Robins & Songbirds: High quality foods selected to attract our most beloved garden birds including robins, blackbirds, thrushes, and dunnocks
    • Premium Quality, Zero Waste: Every ingredient is carefully selected to provide essential nutrition and palatability
    • Great Value: Pre-packed bundles allow us to offer you maximum value, so you can watch these charismatic visitors return daily to your garden

  • Robin Bird Food and Feeder Pack Robin Bird Food and Feeder Pack; Robin on a compact ground feeding tray; Ark Robin Friendly Premium can be fed on the ground; Robins love high protein mealworms

    Robin Bird Food and Feeder Pack

    £23.95
    £23.95
    • Perfect Starter Pack: Everything you need to attract Robins into your garden
    • Includes: 3kg Ark Robin Friendly, 300g Dried Mealworms & Compact Ground Feeding Tray
    • Attractive: Compact tray allows easy relocation to find best feeding spot
  • Deal Of The Month why buy ark bird food deal of the month
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    Deal Of The Month

    £32.95
    £32.95
    £41.20

    Specially selected Monthly Pack contains:

    • 3kg Ark Hearty™ Mealworm Mix
    • 3kg Ark Premium Wild Bird Food
    • 3kg Ark Premium Songbird Food

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  • Complete Flutter Butter Feeder Pack Blue Tits feeding from hanging flutter butter feeder

    Flutter Butter Feeder Pack

    £47.95
    £47.95
    • The Perfect Pack: Feed straight from the box, contains suet feeder and food
    • A Proven Favourite: Makes a great gift for family, friends and the birds
    • Hassle-Free: Quick, clean and simple peanut butter bird feeding
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    Clingers Only Bird Feeding Pack

    £33.95
    £33.95
    • Perfect Starter Pack: Everything you need to attract small birds to your garden
    • Includes: Feeders and food suitable for a multitude of tits, and other clinging birds
    • Supportive: Allows small birds to feed in peace, without marauding large & greedy birds

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Bird Food for Every Season

Feeding birds is one of the simplest, most rewarding ways to connect with nature and it matters every day of the year. From frosty winter mornings to the high heat of summer, garden birds face seasonal challenges. That’s where we come in.

At Ark Wildlife, we offer the best overall bird food for every season, species, and situation. Whether you’re just starting out or you've been feeding birds for years, our expertly balanced blends and species-specific foods help support wildlife at every stage.

The Joy of Bird Feeding

There’s a quiet magic in feeding birds. One moment your garden is still, and the next, a burst of wings and colour fills the air. A chattering charm of goldfinches, the flash of a blue tit, or the determined hop of a robin on the lawn, all these moments bring a sense of wonder, even on an ordinary day.

Bird feeding transforms gardens into living, breathing spaces. It invites nature to come closer, and rewards us with daily displays of beauty, curiosity, and song. Every visitor to the feeder becomes a familiar presence, adding life and movement to our outdoor spaces.

Whether you're sipping tea on the patio or watching from a window, feeding birds offers instant connection to the wild. It’s not just food… it’s friendship.

Why feed birds year round?

Many people start feeding birds in winter, when natural food sources are scarce. But the truth is, birds benefit from supplemental feeding all year long.

In spring, they need protein for nesting and raising young. In summer, fledglings and moulting adults rely on soft, nutritious foods. Autumn is a time to build fat reserves, while winter demands calorie rich seeds and fats just to survive.

By feeding birds year round, you're giving them the consistent, dependable support they need to thrive. And in return? You get a garden filled with song, colour, and life.

What is the best overall bird food?

If you're looking for one go-to blend that does it all, choose our exceptional no-mess, no-waste Hearty™ seed mixes. These are ideal for year round feeding and attract the widest possible variety of species and in ever greater numbers, including:

  • Blue tits, great tits, coal tits, long-tailed tits
  • House sparrows, robins, blackbirds, dunnocks

Finches, siskins, nuthatches, woodpeckers

Our Hearty™ mixes include a high percentage of sunflower hearts, millet, suet pellets or dried mealworms, with no cheap fillers like wheat or barley, which often go uneaten. Our Ark Premium No Mess Feeder Mix is designed to offer maximum nutrition with zero waste, making it the best overall bird food for busy gardens.

You can also supplement with species-specific foods like:

What is the best bird seed to feed birds in spring and summer?

In spring and summer, birds need energy to nest, feed their young, and undergo moulting. During this time, offer:

  • High-protein foods such as live or dried mealworms
  • Sunflower hearts easy to eat and full of energy having the shells removed
  • Suet pellets and blocks made with fat offering tasty fast energy
  • Insect rich blends to support fledglings

Avoid large, hard seeds or whole peanuts, as these can present a chocking hazard for young and inexperienced chicks, fledglings and birds.

Our Ark Summer Support Mix is specially created to support birds during warmer months, offering bite-sized, easily digestible protein and calcium rich nutrition. It's gentle on young beaks and packed with what they need most.

Why should you feed birds in the summer?

You might wonder, "should you feed birds in the summer?" The answer is a confident yes, but with care.

Summer brings long days, but it also brings drought, heat stress, and a hungry new generation of birds. Natural food like insects and berries may be abundant one week and vanish the next due to changes in the weather.

Tips why feeding birds in summer is important:

  • Supports fledglings still learning to forage
  • Helps adults recovering from the rigours of nesting
  • Offers clean, consistent food when wild supplies dip
  • Maintains the joy of birds visiting your garden, and your feeders

Clean feeders regularly, especially in warm or wet weather, and ensure fresh water for drinking and bathing is available every day.

Is there a time you should stop feeding birds in summer?

There’s a common myth that feeding birds in summer stops them from finding natural food. But in the UK the RSPB say there's no need to stop feeding birds in summer, and it continues to be beneficial as long as you:

  • Clean feeders weekly to prevent the spread of disease in warm weather
  • Offer soft, small seeds and mealworms safe for chicks
  • Avoid large, dry foods like whole peanuts or uncooked fat

In short, adapt your feeding, use better quality bird food but don't stop it. Summer is just as important as winter when it comes to helping garden birds stay healthy.

Feeding in autumn and winter

As days shorten and temperatures drop, birds need calorie rich food to survive. Start increasing your feeding in autumn so birds know where to find food when they need it most.

Choose:

  • Fat balls and suet blocks for warmth and energy
  • Peanuts and sunflower seeds to build reserves
  • Mealworms and raisins for thrushes and robins

While autumn may see a lull in visiting birds due to many common garden species going through the moult. There will also be a period of abundance of natural seeds and fruit. Weeks can go by with little or no activity on bird feeders. However, it’s important to keep feeding as this abundance can be short lived and birds will return in ever greater numbers and the days shorten, and cool.

Winter feeding brings the greatest variety of species to your garden, including less seen birds like redwings and fieldfares. Keep feeders stocked up, and you’ll be rewarded with a daily display of colour and activity.

Why high quality bird food matters

Not all bird food is equal. Cheap mixes often from supermarkets and garden centres often include large quantities of wheat, split peas, or barley, all cheap ingredients and fillers that offer little nutritional value and birds don’t eat. All it does is discourage birds from visiting and grow into weeds under your feeders.

The best high quality bird food:

  • Reduces waste
  • Provides better nutrition
  • Keeps your feeders cleaner
  • Attracts a wider range and numbers of birds

When you invest in food that's designed for the needs of UK species, you're helping birds live longer, breed more successfully, and return to your garden again and again.

At Ark Wildlife, all our mixes are tested and trusted by wildlife experts and independently tested. We don’t include cheap fillers, and we never compromise on quality.

The mental and physical health benefits of feeding birds

Bird feeding doesn’t just help wildlife, it helps us too. Watching birds brings a calming rhythm to daily life. Their songs, colours, and behaviours draw us out of our heads and into the moment.

Studies show that regular interaction with nature, even something as small as watching birds at a feeder, can:

  • Reduce stress and anxiety
  • Improve mood and focus
  • Lower blood pressure
  • Encourage time spent outdoors

Bird feeding can become a daily ritual, a quiet act of care that reconnects us with the seasons. For older adults or people working from home, it offers routine, connection, and joy, small, uplifting moments that add up to a happier, healthier you.

It’s a simple act that nourishes both garden wildlife and the human spirit.

What to put in your feeders (and when)

Spring/Summer

Autumn/Winter

Year-Round

  • Premium seed mixes
  • No mess & Hearty™ seed mixes
  • Suet pellets and blocks
  • Water for drinking and bathing

Every feeder filled is an invitation to wildlife. Whether you hang a single seed feeder or set up a full tiered feeding station, you’re creating a lifeline for birds in every season.

Support your local wildlife with the best bird food in summer, winter, and every season between. With Ark Wildlife, feeding birds is more than a hobby, it’s a simple, powerful way to help nature thrive in your own back garden.

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What is the best bird seed for birds in the UK?

The best bird seeds for the UK include sunflower seeds (for most species), peanuts (for tits and woodpeckers), niger seeds (for finches), mixed seed blends (for a variety of birds), mealworms (for insect-eating birds like robins and blackbirds), fatballs, suet pellets and cakes (for many species).

How do I feed birds without attracting rats in the UK?

You can use hanging feeders which keep food off the ground to stop attracting rats to your garden. You can also minimise the risk of pests by putting out bird feed in moderation to avoid excess leftovers.

What is the healthiest thing to feed birds?

The healthiest food for birds is a mix of high-quality, natural options that provide balanced nutrition. Sunflower seeds are rich in essential oils and fats, while peanuts for birds offer protein and energy. Mealworms can also provide valuable protein. It's important to avoid processed foods, salt, and sugary treats, as these can be harmful to birds.

How do you feed garden birds on a budget?

If you’re looking for the cheapest thing to feed birds, you’ll be pleased to know that feeding garden birds cheaply can be achieved whilst still providing nutritious options. Seed mixes are a great way to offer a variety of garden seeds that can attract multiple species of birds to your garden. Larger size bags offer better pricing and our bird food bundles are excellent value.

What bird feeders can I use?

You can use hanging feeders which keep food off the ground to stop attracting rats to your garden. You can also minimise the risk of pests by putting out bird feed in moderation to avoid excess leftovers.

What if a bird does not eat seeds?

If the birds in your garden aren’t eating the seeds you put out, you may want to offer alternative foods like suet, mealworms, or fruit.

Why is tiered bird feeding important?

Tiered bird feeding caters to different bird species by providing feeding stations at various heights, reducing competition and attracting a wider variety of birds.

Is it illegal to feed birds in your garden in the UK?

It is not illegal to feed birds in your garden in the UK. In fact, feeding birds is a popular activity and can help support local wildlife, especially during the colder months when natural food sources are scarce. However, it’s important to feed birds responsibly, ensuring food is fresh and nutritious to avoid health risks for the birds, impacting the surrounding environment and attracting pests.

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