Fantastic food for feathered friends. (Bill Oddie's Really Wild Bird Food)

Member Name: Darkstar101

Product:	Bill Oddie's Really Wild Bird Food
Date:	14/07/09 (64 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Good quality general bird food for use all year round.

Disadvantages: Bag is a bit tough to open and not resealable.

My children have always loved seeing birds in the garden and following our recent move to a house with a bigger garden, they have become a little more pro-active in their attempts to encourage different species.

I must confess, I don't really know a great deal about birds and their year round nutritional requirements, so whilst shopping I was delighted to find a bag of Bill Oddie's Really Wild Bird Food, labelled as a good general mix ideal all year round. Perfect. That took the guesswork out of buying the right food for the right season. Best of all the 800g bag only cost £1 (in Poundland - where else?).

Approved by the Birdcare Standards Association, the bag contains a blend of English wheat, yellow millet, black and striped sunflower seeds perfectly balanced with milo, pancium, pinhead oatmeal and flaked and cut maize. The 100% natural ingredients contain all the nutrition birds need, with no cheap fillers like split peas or coloured dog biscuit which some bird foods contain.

The heat sealed thick plastic bag containing the food is quite difficult to open, and you run the risk of exploding seed everywhere if you try to pull it apart at the seam. I recommend just snipping off the corner using scissors and pouring the seed into a resealable container.

Visually, the food appears to be of good quality, containing a variety of discreetly different seed types of varying sizes, making it ideal for both large birds and birds with small beaks. It is suitable for tube feeders, bird tables and for ground feeding birds.
My children filled a tube feeder and scattered some on the bird table in the hope of attracting birds other than the greedy pigeons which were regular visitors for the daily offering of bread and bits of toast.

Surprisingly, several new species (well new to our garden anyway!) were drawn to the food. In addition to pigeons we now regularly attract house sparrows, great tits, blue tits, robins, blackbirds, thrushes and goldfinches. I must admit, I am only able to name these birds because the kids took photos of them and identified them using the RSPB website.

It is good to see these birds as regular visitors to our garden and it is particularly rewarding to watch different species sharing the same feeding station - living proof that the food does cater for all tastes and requirements.

Bill Oddie's Really Wild Bird Food is a good quality product that definitely keeps the birds coming back for more.

Summary: Excellent value for money with pleasing results.