Gary Armstrong<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nA wide variety of species will eat peanuts. The most obvious are tits, especially Blue, Great and Coal, Greenfinches, House Sparrows and Starlings. With luck you might attract Nuthatches, Great Spotted Woodpeckers, Siskins and Jays (which seem able to seek out peanuts from miles away!). All of these will come to mesh feeders. Other birds will enjoy broken peanuts from the ground or bird table, including Robins, Blackbirds and Dunnocks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Let us know in the comments below which birds you have eating peanuts, and let’s see how many we can get!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Peanuts are probably the most familiar food to feed wild birds, except maybe for bread! And feeding birds peanuts is a great way to enjoy the antics and acrobatics of birds on your feeders. Did you know however, that a peanut is not actually a nut at all?! Peanuts are legumes, so related to peas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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