Overview

• Guidance updated for October recommends suet pellets, fat balls, mealworms, sunflower hearts, and soft fruits to support robins through colder months.
• Experts warn against bread, milk or other dairy, salted peanuts, citrus, and avocado because they can cause malnutrition, illness, or toxicity.
• Robins remain in the UK year‑round and can lose up to about 10% of body weight on a single cold night, increasing reliance on supplementary food.
• Keeping food in one consistent garden spot can encourage robins to return daily, according to advice shared by bird specialists.
• Habitat steps include putting up robin nest boxes, maintaining shrubs and hedgerows, and planting bird‑friendly choices such as hawthorn, guelder rose, rowan, holly, teasels, and autumn‑sown wildflowers.