Nature Fact

The amount of time that birds spend looking for food is scarcely believable. The Great tit spends 75% of its waking hours on this task, the Blue Tit 85% and the Coal Tit 90%. The smallest of our birds, the Goldcrest, spends literally all day feeding. Help birds visiting your garden by providing food. A fat crumble is easy to make by rubbing 4oz/115g of cooking margarine or lard into 8oz/225g of plain flour-unlike us, birds can consume large quantities of fat without any adverse effects.