Fat Ball Bird Feeders

Fat balls are a delicious snack enjoyed by a wide range of different birds. If you put a fat ball bird feeder in your garden, you can expect to be visited by; 

• Great tits
• Blue tits
• Great spotted woodpeckers
• Starlings
• Sparrows 
• Nuthatches 
• Blackbirds

Suet and fat balls are pretty similar, and are more or less made up of the same ingredients. However, with fat balls it’s more common to see added ingredients. For example, our Super Suet Fat Balls have added dried mealworms to pack a protein-filled punch – as well as tasting super delicious!

Good quality fat balls are a delicious and nutritious snack for wild birds! Fat balls are an excellent source of healthy fats and calories, which is particularly important in the winter months. However, some cheap fat balls are padded out with fillers to make them cheaper to produce. These cheap fat balls are less nutritionally dense and can quickly fill up birds without providing them with the nutrients they need – needless to say, we’d recommend avoiding cheap, poor quality fat balls!

Fat ball feeders are specially designed to accommodate suet balls. You can also put suet balls on bird feeding tables - this can make the fat balls more accessible to ground feeders who enjoy suet but struggle to perch on traditional suet bird feeders, like robins.