Overview
- Kingsyard Official advises adding small fresh apple slices to open ground or platform feeders, with raisins, suet, mealworms or peanut hearts as options.
- The guidance highlights the need for dependable water sources and suggests using a heated bird bath as temperatures fall.
- Reporters explain that robins are easier to see in winter as insects decline, foliage thins and some birds migrate from continental Europe.
- Food-safety tips include replacing any mouldy fruit and avoiding high‑sugar items such as grapes, with pears, raisins and finely chopped peanuts suggested as alternatives.
- Further welfare advice stresses low, sheltered feeding spots spaced for territorial birds, regular cleaning, limiting salty foods and bread, and keeping dried fruit away from pets.