Extra Select Insect High Energy Suet Pellets Wild Bird Food - Protein, Fat Rich Year-Round Feeding - 3 kg Refill

These fatty pellets are caviar to almost all our garden birds; and so easy for them to eat!I have been ordering these pellets for the last two winters. The Amazon Prime next-day delivery is always reliable. Caveat: as with any fat, in hot weather these pellets can melt or go off in a couple of days so, in such conditions, feed only enough to be eaten quickly and top up more regularly. The same with heavy rain: the fat will disintegrate at the edges where the rain can get at it in a feeder so, either part fill it so it gets eaten quickly or, I tip out the remains (using a stick or brush to get the stuck bits out) onto the bird table before replenishing the metal-mesh feeder. This is the most popular bird food I've ever put out. It's brilliant for keeping the birds strong and prepared for breeding and bad weather - and therefore, it's costing me a fortune! The following love them in our garden: blackbird, thrush, greater-spotted woodpecker, robin, blue tit, great tit, long-tailed tit, coal tit, house sparrow, goldfinch, chaffinch, green finch, starling, jackdaw, wood pigeon, magpie; and pheasant (yes, we live in the countryside!). The only ones that haven't got to grips with it yet are wren and dunnock - as ground feeders I think, so far, they simply haven't recognised the pellets on the bird table as food. I need to sprinkle them on the ground more. When I top up the feeder and bird table, the birds are on them before I've got back indoors! See photos - though there are usually far more birds at one time. (They were camera-shy.)

I feed a variety of bird food in the garden: pre-soaked dried mealworms, suet blocks, fat balls, sunflower seeds, sunflower hearts, nyger seed, baked potato, sometimes fruit (de-stoned fresh cherries were a hit) and plain old mixed seed.Of everything I've tried, these suet pellets have caused the biggest stir in the yard. They generally get eaten by a Robin, blackbirds, dunnocks, magpies, wood pigeons, collared doves and a ton of starlings.They're absolutely a real favorite treat with the starlings who go mad over them. I feed them on a large tray once per day (feeding more could get very pricey) and the starlings drop like a swarm of flies into the back garden - sometimes 20-30 of them in one seething mass. All bickering and having their noisy squabbles. So much fun to watch. I would find the garden very dull indeed without the fun of watching the starlings every day.Before I served these up, I'd get maybe 10 or 12 starlings so that shows how popular these became in our neighbourhood in a short time.Other birds as I mentioned before also like to eat them. The pigeons and doves will wander over from their seed to see what's left. The robin keeps coming back to get them and the dunnocks will pick up stray pellets that have been discarded around the paving slabs - but not if the robin is around since it (don't know if it's a he or she because they are very hard to tell apart) is quite violent towards them and has launched itself at them many a time.The suet pellets get gobbled quickly. I dare say if I put out more they'd get eaten as well but they're meant to be a treat so a feed a fixed amount each day one a first come first served basis. Although sometimes I chuck a handful into the pigeon and dove seed on the bird table so they get a look in and sometimes I put some into the caged off small bird area so they also get some too.I was really pleased at how well these have been received. The starlings will ignore all other food in the garden until these are gone. Then they'll start on the mealworms, hanging suet cakes and fat balls.I'll definitely get these again.

Good size package. Birds love them. Good quality

Good value suet pellets and the birds love it

I've been buying these products for a number of years now (literally 1 bag per month); the insect, mealworm and berry 3L ones.In that time, I've had one duff bag. By that I mean the pellets appeared visibly mouldy and the birds weren't interested in them at all. But given the volume of good bags I've had over the years I wouldn't let that putt you off.I was disappointed when the price increased around a year ago, but overall, the fact that the birds love them, as well as the squirrels, magpies and a skulk of urban foxes, too, well that's all there is to say really.The bag is durable enough, but I always open them as soon as they are delivered, and pour them into an old Wilko 3L pellet tub with a lid; makes live a lot easier.They seem to have relatively recently changed the branding and bag design, with more colours and more branding. I can't help but wonder if that has increased production costs, needlessly, because in my experience the old bags were fine and I never had a damaged bag.All that said and done, as I've already said the birds love them, so I'm happy with the products and would recommend them.

Birds love this

No idea yet whether the birds are going to like this but am curious/concerned? that the largest word on the bag is INSECT yet the ingredients list this as only being 0.01% of the content. Not entirely sure that constitutes an ingredient but rather one fly-by... ;)

Not the cheapest but the birds absolutely love them for sure.