
Bird Food Blog
Welcome to the Haith's bird food blog - featuring posts from the team & special guests. If you'd like to share your nature notes with our readers, please email enquiries@haiths.com for more information.

Bird food for doves
Pigeons and doves all belong to the same family of birds, the Columbidae family. They share many particular features, such as rotund bodies, short scaly legs, and tapered wings. All pigeons and doves that belong to this family share the same 'cooing' call.

The Wren
The Wren (Troglodytes Troglodytes) is a small dumpy bird that is warm brown in colour with lighter shades of brown and cream, its wings are small and roundish and the tail is short and narrow which is sometimes cocked up vertically.

The natural world through a lens
I challenged my two boys to take a few photos on Sunday to see if they could capture nature and its surroundings during a family stroll into town.

A look at 'straight' bird foods
Cheaper bird food mixes often contain large quantities of low-energy fillers such as wheat and milo. It's certainly worth spending a little more to avoid these cheaper fillers. Another way to avoid them is to experiment by feeding 'straight' seeds.

Wildlife adventure with an iPhone - Update on the Buddleia bush
In this week's Wildlife Adventures with an iPhone, I'd like to show you what's happened to that buddleia bush in my garden.

Latest news: An elected fellow of The Linnean Society of London
Simon H King, Haith’s Associate Director has recently been elected a Fellow of The Linnean Society of London, the world’s oldest active biological society.