Seasonal release: Bug & Berry Energy Food for wild birds
To mix things up a bit this winter, we’ve combined our natural berry recipe with a collection of delectable dried mealworms, grasshoppers and crickets.
These bird lovin' social accounts are creating a flap!
Social media is a great way to connect with other bird lovers. Here is just a tiny selection of the many wonderful accounts that fill our feeds with feathers!
How to compost our paper and compostable film packaging
Many of Topflite's Wild Bird feeding products are packaged in compostable films, plastics and paper products after we make them. Here's what to do with them.
Spring into summer
With warmer weather and more sunlight now is the time to plan and plant in the backyard. There’s plenty of good company in the garden too. Your feathered friends will be busy nest building, breeding and feeding their young chicks.
Tree-free bird feeders for New Zealand gardens
We love seeing a kererū in a kōwhai or tūī in a tawa gobbling fruit and nectar. Even better if we can supplement the birds’ natural food sources by hanging a feeder to get them through times of food scarcity. But what if trees aren’t an option at your place?
Feeding wild birds - should we do it?
While some experts adhere to a school of thought that discourages feeding birds, seeing it as a disruption of nature’s course, others disagree, taking the view that our natives need a helping hand. So... who’s right?
We’re all a-twitter over the findings from the 2021 NZ Garden Bird Survey!
The results are in for the 2021 New Zealand Garden Bird Survey. At 5894 results nationwide, 2021 saw a near-identical number of submitted surveys as 2020.
Get-up-and-go
As winter hits, trees and shrubs go dormant above ground for the season, biding their time until spring arrives. That means fewer food sources like nectar, berries and insects for our wild bird friends.