Blackbirds: fruit (especially berries and apples), peanuts, cheese. They can also be tempted with soaked dried fruits
House sparrows: mealworms in the breeding season; you can also feed them sunflower hearts and seed mixes
Song Thrushes: fruit (particularly raisins, sultanas and currants) and peanut granules
Starlings: kitchen scraps, peanuts, fat blocks and seed mixes
Blue Tits: fat blocks, sunflower hearts, seed mixes and unsalted bacon
Chaffinches: peanuts, sunflowers hearts and seeds
Robins: mealworms, waxworms, peanut granules, sunflower hearts and pinhead oats. They will also eat small pieces of over-ripe and dried, chopped fruits
Goldfinches: Nyjer seeds
Wrens: suet and grated mild cheese
For more information about what to feed birds, and what you shouldn't give garden birds, visit: the RSPB's information site.
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