Henry Ball: Perfect gift for Gardeners & Bird Lovers

 I personally love Winter especially in the garden. While the plants are lying dormant, and the ground seems to be sleeping now is the best time to start spotting wildlife. With the Big Garden Birdwatch next month it’s also the perfect time to encourage these beautiful songbirds into your garden.

Photo Credit: Henry Ball 

 

With lockdown more and more of us are seeing the joy these animals can bring into the garden and the sense of peace they offer us. Winter time for us is heralded by the trees suddenly surrounded by song birds all demanding treats!

Of course, the best way to entice these feathered friends into the garden is by feeding them. Each bird has its own favourite blend of nuts and seeds but you can’t go too wrong with fat balls, meal worms and a blended seed mix (their wild bird seed mix packaging is 100% recyclable)

 

Henry Bell who are a family owned, British animal feed producer have a wonderful range especially for Wild Birds and recently sent us a truly beautiful Sterling Feeding Station, some of their Robin blend seed mix and the most awesome Grand Sterling seed feeder. I would highly recommend just popping over to their website just to look at gorgeous painting of the individual birds!

 

Normally it takes birds a couple of weeks to warm up to anything new in the garden but after we had an audience while we put the station and feeder together and before we were even out the garden we had a robin on one level of the feeder and a coal tit on the other! It has proved incredibly popular and has given my grandma many hours of delight sitting and watching their antics on it.

 

The Sterling feeding station is truly a work of art! It's full of beautiful silver leaves which makes the station look more like a sculpture than a utilitarian object. Also the birds appreciate the extra camouflage and perches! I’m sure they have their own queuing system going on!

 

Henry Bell offers a huge range of wild bird accessories which can be found nationwide in over 400 garden centres and online such as Food 4 Wild Birds.