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Heatherlea | Wild Bird Feeding | High Quality Peanuts
Premium Aflatoxin-Free Wild Bird Peanuts
High-Energy Nutrition for Garden Birds
Provide your garden birds with one of nature's most nutritious foods with our Premium Aflatoxin-Free Wild Bird Peanuts. Rich in healthy oils, protein, vitamins and minerals, peanuts are an excellent high-energy food that supports wild birds throughout the year.
Our premium peanuts are Grade A and certified aflatoxin-free, giving you complete peace of mind that you're providing a safe, high-quality food for your garden visitors. We carefully manage our stock to ensure the peanuts remain fresh and nutritious from supplier to your garden.
Why Choose Our Premium Wild Bird Peanuts?
Not all peanuts are suitable for feeding wild birds. Our carefully selected peanuts are certified free from aflatoxin – a naturally occurring fungal toxin that can be extremely harmful to birds.
Key Features
✔ Grade A premium quality peanuts
✔ Certified aflatoxin-free
✔ Naturally high in energy
✔ Rich in protein and healthy oils
✔ Excellent year-round food source
✔ Suitable for a wide variety of wild birds
✔ Carefully stored to maintain freshness
✔ Ideal for use in wire mesh peanut feeders
Why Feed Peanuts?
Peanuts provide an excellent source of concentrated energy, helping birds maintain condition throughout the changing seasons.
They naturally contain important nutrients including:
- Protein
- Healthy oils and fats
- Vitamin A
- Vitamin E
- Iron
- Zinc
- Phosphorus
- Potassium
These nutrients help support healthy feathers, strong muscles and the energy birds need for flying, breeding and surviving colder weather.
Birds That Enjoy Peanuts
Premium peanuts attract a wide variety of garden birds, including:
- Robins
- Dunnocks
- Wrens
- Nuthatches
- Coal Tits
- Blue Tits
- Great Tits
- Long-tailed Tits
- Woodpeckers
- Siskins
- Finches
They are also popular with squirrels.
Important Feeding Advice
Peanuts should never be fed loose on bird tables or scattered on the ground.
Whole peanuts can present a choking hazard to young birds if adults carry them back to the nest.
Always feed peanuts using a wire mesh peanut feeder, allowing birds to safely remove small pieces at a time.
If squirrels become a nuisance, consider using a squirrel-proof peanut feeder to help prevent food being taken before birds have access.
Feed Birds All Year Round
Wild birds benefit from supplementary feeding throughout every season.
Spring & Summer
Adult birds require extra energy while nesting and feeding their young.
Autumn & Winter
Natural food sources become scarcer, making high-energy foods like peanuts especially valuable.
Alongside feeding:
- Provide fresh, clean drinking water every day.
- Ensure water doesn't freeze during winter.
- Clean feeders regularly using a bird-safe disinfectant to reduce bacteria and disease transmission.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why must peanuts be aflatoxin-free?
Some peanuts can naturally become contaminated with aflatoxin, a toxin produced by certain fungi. Even very small amounts may be harmful to wild birds.
Our peanuts are Grade A and certified aflatoxin-free, providing a safe feeding option.
Can I scatter peanuts on the ground?
No. Whole peanuts should always be offered in a wire mesh peanut feeder.
Why shouldn't whole peanuts be left on bird tables?
Adult birds may carry whole peanuts back to chicks, creating a choking hazard for young birds.
Which birds eat peanuts?
Many common UK garden birds enjoy peanuts, including tits, woodpeckers, nuthatches, robins, finches and many others.
Can squirrels eat these peanuts?
Yes. Squirrels also enjoy peanuts. If you wish to discourage them, a squirrel-proof feeder can help.
Why Choose Premium Aflatoxin-Free Peanuts?
Providing high-quality food helps support healthy wild bird populations while attracting a greater variety of species to your garden. By choosing certified aflatoxin-free peanuts, you're offering one of the safest and most nutritious foods available for garden birds.
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Product Specifications
| Feature | Specification |
|---|---|
| Product | Premium Wild Bird Peanuts |
| Grade | Grade A |
| Aflatoxin-Free | Certified |
| Suitable For | Wild birds |
| Feeding Method | Wire mesh peanut feeder |
| Suitable For | Year-round feeding |
Feeding Recommendations
- Feed using a wire mesh peanut feeder only.
- Always provide fresh drinking water nearby.
- Clean feeders regularly with a bird-safe disinfectant.
- Store in a cool, dry place.
100% Peanuts
Description
Peanuts are a favourite amongst wild birds in UK and Irish gardens, providing a rich source of oil, fat, protein and other essential nutrients for a wide variety of species who frequent our outdoor spaces.
These healthy nuts are particularly enjoyed by Robins, Dunnocks, Wrens, Nuthatches and Coal Tits, with their high calorific contents that are easily converted to energy.
All peanuts are not created equally, in fact some peanuts are infected with a fungus known as aflatoxin. This fungus has known carcinogenic traits in humans and can cause toxicity leading to death in wild birds. As there are no known 'safe' levels of aflatoxin for wild birds, we only sell Grade A, certified aflatoxin free peanuts. Our premium peanuts are always fresh, and we ensure that they are of the highest quality when they reach the end customer by avoiding storing the peanuts in our warehouse for a long time where they could become stale.
To encourage visiting birds to use feeders in your garden, position around 2m away from the closest area of safe cover. This will make sure that your feeder is visible to passing birds, while still offering a feeling of security to birds as they eat, as a safe area to hide is close-by.
- Consider providing clean, fresh drinking water alongside feeders. You can use a bird bath or a hanging Wild Bird Water Drinker to dispense the water. Providing a source of safe water not only encourages birds to spend more time in your garden, but also helps your local birds to survive, particularly through the Summer and Winter months, when other sources of water can dry up or freeze over and become inaccessible.
- If birds are visiting your feeders, consider continuing to provide food throughout the year. If local birds recognise your garden as a reliable source of food, they will be more likely to be make a habit of visiting you. Additionally, feeding throughout the year will aid your local wild bird population in the event of temporary food shortages, which can occur in any season.
- If you are new to feeding birds, please note that it may take some time before birds start to use your feeder.
- Refill feeders in the early morning, to ensure that there is always food available when birds are looking to eat to replace energy lost through the night.
- Protect your local bird population by helping to reduce the spread of disease between different birds. All food available to the birds should be fresh and dry; wet food should be discarded on a daily basis, as it can harbour harmful bacteria. Feeders and other areas where birds may gather within your garden, such as bird baths, should be cleaned on a regular basis, using a bird safe cleaning product such as Johnson's Clean 'n' Safe Bird Disinfectant.
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100% Peanuts
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It is important to take steps to ensure that feeders are kept clean to help to protect local birds from spreading disease between themselves. The food available to birds should be fresh and dry, with any wet food discarded on a daily basis. Wet or damp food can harbour harmful bacteria. Feeders and other areas where birds may gather in your garden, such as bird baths, should be cleaned on a regular basis, using a cleaning product that is safe for use around birds. We recommend Johnson's Clean 'n' Safe Bird Disinfectant.
It is important to take steps to ensure that feeders are kept clean to help to protect local birds from spreading disease between themselves. The food available to birds should be fresh and dry, with any wet food discarded on a daily basis. Wet or damp food can harbour harmful bacteria. Feeders and other areas where birds may gather in your garden, such as bird baths, should be cleaned on a regular basis, using a cleaning product that is safe for use around birds. We recommend Johnson's Clean 'n' Safe Bird Disinfectant.
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