To feed or not to feed... on the forage and away with the birds

Everyone loves to feeds the birds - bread and oats among others - but Fiann Ó Nualláin takes a good look at what we should feed them and when.

The garden in winter does see some feathered visitor traffic — on the forage for the last of the berries and seed heads which supply amino acids and protein as well as carbs (more on that to come).

They will forage for scraps that you have laid out but that’s not always the healthiest — ok you don’t have to put them on a Roz Purcell diet but certainly the traditional crusts of bread is not ideal — that’s just a nutritionally empty filler.