Feeding SMALL birds

Lixy that's a very helpful RSPB link.
Thank you.

I use feeders for small birds, trays and easy access for starlings, seed on the ground for pigeons, collared doves etc, and I hid meal worms, suet and seed under shrubs etc for ground feeders like the robin, blackbird etc.

I aim to please🙂

We bought a seed feeder today (usually feed peanuts, fat balls and porridge). Filled it with sunflower hearts and 2 ½ hours later it is empty! Mainly coal tits. Not filling it again until the morning. Coal tits store food for later in the winter so I suppose all the surrounding trees have little cache.

I feed my birds at dawn and dusk. I put so much out, mealworms, peanuts, seed, suet bites, along with fat balls and blocks in suitable containers. I often add a handful of dried fruit too - the cheapest mix I can get.
I find the blue tits and robins are lined up waiting and they can barely hang on for me to finish loading everything up before they descend to feed. The jackdaws and magpies usually come along half an hour later with the doves, feral and a couple of fat wood pigeons. I’ve apples I leave on trees that are well pecked too.
My thought is that feeding the corvids might just prevent them from praying on the smaller birds.

I’ve 2 robins, both almost tame but of course they ‘hate’ each other and attempt to chase one another away. Plenty of food and despite a big garden, it’s not big enough for the two of them.

Just saw this thread is still going, most of my terrace only have yards in the back, and tiny front gardens, and my next door neighbour a really nice old man died this year and a young couple moved in.They’re not all that friendly, and the tree in their yard, which I used to hang bird feeders from as the branches came over the wall, has now been cut down.☹️It was a lovely tree, some kind of Spring flowering one, masses of pink blossoms.