TODAY ONLY! Save 20% on our High Energy Fledgling Mix™ when you use the code CHORUS20 at checkout. Prices start from just £8.76 (with discount applied). Offer ends at midnight on 30th April – so order now!

There's nothing quite like waking up to the beautiful sound of birdsong, and this Sunday (4th May 2025) is International Dawn Chorus Day.

This time of year is very special for us bird lovers. The cacophony of early-morning birdsong known as the dawn chorus takes place from March to July, with May and June being the peak months to enjoy the wonderful sound. The first songsters of the season tend to be UK resident birds such as robins and great tits, but as the warmer months bring migrants such as blackcaps and chiffchaffs back into our green spaces, the choir starts to take shape and the dawn chorus can be heard in all its glory!

So now is a really good time of year to be up and outside, enjoying it while you can. The best days to choose are those with fine, clear weather and little wind.

These past few weeks of beautiful, still weather have given us the ideal start to each day – a rousing dawn chorus always makes mornings much more enjoyable!

LEARN MORE: Dawn Chorus – Why Birds Sing in the Morning

20% off High Energy Fledgling Mix™

For TODAY ONLY, you can use the discount code CHORUS20 to save 20% on our High Energy Fledgling Mix™ for young birds.

Why buy High Energy Fledgling Mix™?

• Mini pieces make easy feeding for fledglings
  
  
• Highly digestible
  
  
• Ultra high energy
  
  
• Won't grow or sprout – so no mess and everything will be eaten
  
  
• Freshly made to order – the best quality you can buy
  
  
• The highest quality ingredients to give fledglings the best start in life
  
  
• AND there's 20% off if you place your order today (Wednesday 30th April)

Click the button below to order your fledgling mix. Don't forget to enter the code CHORUS20 for a 20% discount! (Offer ends at midnight on 30th April.)

Buy High Energy Fledgling Mix™ Now!

Enjoy your dawn chorus and do let me know which birds have been waking you up in the morning!

With very best wishes,
Lesley

Very shortly there will be lots of hungry mouths to feed - so be ready for the youngsters!‌   

This is the time of year when garden bird numbers start to climb as fledglings appear en-masse. This is also the most critical time of year to offer high quality, easily digestible food, especially if the weather is cold and the insect population is low. 

That is because if you feed more youngsters now - you will have more adults all year - it is a simple fact!

Here are some ideas for you to help fill those hungry beaks over the next few months!

High Energy Fledgling Mix™

Our High Energy Fledgling Mix™ is our mini-bite seed mix for fledglings with little beaks. So make sure you stock up ahead of a really busy time for garden birds and their families.

• Loved by Sparrows!
  
  
• Mini bites make easy feeding
  
  
• It is highly digestible
  
  
• Ultra High Energy
  
  
• No Mess Mix - everything will be eaten
  
  
• It's homemade by us 
  
  
• It tastes delicious!

PLUS FAST, FREE DELIVERY WITH EVERY SACK!

Buy Fledgling Mix Here >>

Mini Suet Pellets

Order This Week and SAVE 10%*

Delicious bite-size Mini Suet Pellets for little beaks

• Peanut flavour with a hint of berry
  
  
• With added calcium for developing bones
  
  
• High fat releases immediate energy
  
  
• Soft consistency means easily digestible
  
  
• Free Delivery

From £8.95 with Fast Free Delivery!

( * Offer Ends 31st March 2025 )

SAVE 10% when you buy Mini Suet Pellets this week >>

Live Mealworms 

Live Mealworms are a great source of protein and water for young chicks!

Read my vet page on feeding live mealworms; it's easy to do and hugely beneficial to many families.

Our mealworms are British Born and Bred!

From only £14.65

Order the Wrigglers here  >>>>

Many thanks for your business

Enjoy Your Birds!

Very best wishes,

Lesley

We are excited to announce that we have added another fantastic seed mix to our range of no-mess bird foods. It's called Tidy Garden Crunch™ and your garden birds will love it!

Tidy Garden Crunch™ combines our best-selling Tidy Garden Mix™ with lots of crunchy mealworms. The result is a nutritious, high-protein bird food that will help your birds to lay quality eggs, raise strong and healthy chicks, and lay down fine feathers when autumn arrives.

This delicious new bird food mix is a great choice for spring and summer feeding. Your garden birds will go wild for it!

All of the products in our Tidy Garden™ range are husk free, non-germinating and 'no mess'. You will find that everything is eaten up, leaving your birds totally satisfied and your garden totally tidy!

SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY OFFER! Save 15% by entering the code CRUNCHTIME15 at the checkout.

Buy NEW Tidy Garden Crunch™ >>

It's crunch time!

You can feed Tidy Garden Crunch™ from...

• A hanging seed feeder
• A ground feeder
• A bird table
• Or a feeding station

Most garden birds will love this new recipe—especially tits, finches, sparrows, robins, dunnocks, siskins, goldfinches, blackbirds, starlings, wrens and woodpeckers.

DON'T FORGET! Enter the code CRUNCHTIME15 at the checkout to take advantage of our introductory offer. This will give you a 15% discount on our new Tidy Garden Crunch™ mix.

Enjoy your birds!

With best wishes,
Lesley

It's National Nestbox Week, and we've got lots going on! Here are some of our top nest box deals...

FREE Nesting Wool With Every Nest Box!

We have nest boxes for robins, woodpeckers, tits, sparrows, pied flycatchers, wrens, blackbirds, swallows, house martins and many other UK birds.

And we will include a free 30g bag of nesting wool with every nest box purchased until 21st February 2025!

Browse Nest Boxes

Premium Peanuts

FROM £13.50
Back in stock!

Our customer J. Foxon says: "These are the best peanuts I can find anywhere. Very high quality and value for money. I buy them on a regular basis and will continue to do so. Great customer service and reliable company."

Buy Premium Peanuts

Enjoy home-making with your birds!

With best wishes,
Lesley

National Nestbox Week will take place on 14th - 21st February 2025.

Despite the wet weather in October, we managed to get our winter wheat drilled and we are still delighted with the performance of our new drill. This year we are trying a new wheat variety called 'Bamford' which is a soft milling wheat. If it grows the way we would like it to, and it meets the spec next harvest, it will go off to Spain for Spanish bread making. So much, however, will depend on the weather at harvest time. The other wheats we have planted are Grade 1 and 2 hard wheats, and these will stay in the UK for bread making if we get the quality. So many outcomes are determined by the weather!

We finally have our new grain store up. The wet weather delayed the start of the project, but it is now done! The whole barn was erected in 10 days by only 2 chaps working together. It was quite incredible to witness. All elements of the barn arrived pre-made and the guys used state of the art cherry-pickers to manoeuvre all the components into place. It was very impressive.

This new addition will allow us to store a lot more grain on the farm (approx. 14,000 tonnes). This will ultimately save us a lot of money, since much of our wheat and barley currently has to go to a central store which incurs significant transport and storage charges. There are also hefty charges for looking after the grain—things like drying charges and even cooling charges on hot summer days! So it makes financial sense to be able to do it ourselves.

Stage 2 for us is to complete the barn so that it's ready for harvest 2025. We still have to put down concrete, install doors and electricity for grain drying, all of which are significant costs—but we are committed now!

10% off winter warmers!

Stock up on these feeds to help your birds cope with the cold weather. We're currently offering a 10% DISCOUNT on all of these products—but that offer ends at midnight on Saturday 14th December, so be quick!

Christmas Crumble™

The robin's favourite!

A super high-energy seed mix with delicious suet and crunchy mealworms. Christmas Crumble™ is a delicious, festive choice that's sure to be appreciated when the weather is chilly.

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Tidy Garden Suet Boost™

Supreme food for winter!

Tidy Garden Suet Boost™ is a high-energy seed mix with added suet. A really good choice for this cold weather!

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Classic Peanuts

Wholesome, high-quality peanuts for wild birds.

Our Classic Peanuts have a really high oil content, which adds calories and helps garden birds to fend off the cold.

BUY NOW & SAVE 10%

Insect Suet Pellets

Delicious insect-flavoured suet in bite-sized nibbles!

These high-energy Insect Suet Pellets will stay soft and digestible even during the coldest of days.

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Christmas gifts

Here at Really Wild Bird Food, we stock a fab variety of Christmas presents for bird lovers and wildlife enthusiasts. Click the link below to have a browse!

CHRISTMAS GIFTS FOR BIRD LOVERS

And of course, what could be a nicer gift than some gift vouchers to spend with us this winter?

Christmas in our house certainly won't be relaxing this year, because we have a new family member.

Meet Liza! She is now 10 weeks old and and a bundle of trouble. I am not sure how wise it will be to put up a Christmas tree...we may have to go bauble and tinsel free.

Enjoy your birds, and don't forget to make the most of our winter warmer savings—on offer until 14th December.

With very best wishes,
Lesley (and Liza!)

Brrr! It's snowing in many parts of the UK and very cold in most! Temperatures have plunged as cold Arctic air has swept across the UK, and we need to act quickly to help our garden birds. Snowy conditions make it difficult. The variety and abundance of natural food sources has been challenging this year. You may have noticed how sparse insects have been, and the autumnal hedgerows have been very scarce of fruit and berries. So this cold snap has added more challenging times for garden birds.

We managed to get the main of our harvest into the shed in good time, with crop results mirroring what seems to have happened across most of the UK: some crops yielding exceptionally well and some surprisingly badly, mainly due to the atrocious weather we have had all year.

Richard has a rain gauge in the garden which measures rainfall with a fair degree of accuracy. A 'normal' year's rain here on the farm (although the concept of 'normality' is something far removed these days!) would be around 33 inches, but from 1st October 2023 to 30th September 2024, we had 60 inches of rain - an incredible 5 feet!