Wild Bird Food Shop Northern Ireland

02/09/2024

Plenty of fat balls in stock at the Temple 🐦

Birdsong fat balls 150 - £15.95 | 42 - £6.50
Superior fat balls 160 - £27 | 28 - £6.50

26/08/2024

Squirrel and large bird proof caged feeders in stock.

For seed, peanuts and fat balls.

19/08/2024

Peanuts in stock
25kg - £46
12.5kg - £25
5kg - £12.95
2.5kg - £6.95
1.5kg - £4.25

High quality Indian Java vacuum packed peanuts due in next week beginning 26/08.

05/08/2024

https://www.wildbirdfoodshopnorthernireland.co.uk/wildbirdfoodnipricelist?

UP to date price list, 17/ 7/ 24 EGYPTIAN PEANUTS 25 kg for £46 --- 12.5 kg for £25, --- 5 kg for £12.95, --- 2.5 kg for £6.95, 1.5 kg for £4.25 SUNFLOWER HEARTS, 20 kg for £26.95, 12.5 kg for £18.90,- 5 kg for £8.95, - 2.5 kg for £4.95, 1.5 kg for £3.25 NIGER SEED 25 kg

26/07/2024

Shop is well stocked with sunflower hearts 🐦

26/06/2024

Shop Closed all day Tuesday 2'nd July for George's graduation

05/06/2024

Shop is now well stocked with Niger seed and Sunflower hearts! 🐦

26/05/2024

Springwatch starting this week,

Springwatch returns to BBC Two for three weeks of live programmes

27/03/2024

Good News PEANUTS back in STOCK
INDIAN PEANUTS 25 kg for £46 --- 12.5 kg for £25, --- 5 kg for £12.95, --- 2.5 kg for £6.95, .5 kg for £4.25

19/03/2024

Sunflower hearts 20 kg bag £26.95
Sunflower hearts 12.5 kg bag £18.90

14/03/2024

Peanuts out of stock
I expect delivery of Indian Premium Peanuts
early next week, Will be usual price
Hugh

26/01/2024

Sunflower Hearts are back in stock!
20 kg bag £26.95
12.5 kg bag £18.90

19/01/2024

Carol Feeding a robin on the Lagan Towpath with sunflower hearts!

07/01/2024

Big Garden Birdwatch is only a few weeks away, so we've created a guide of the top 10 birds you're most likely to see, whether you're watching from a balcony or a garden!

Sign up for so you can tell us which ones you see: https://bit.ly/488srm4

24/12/2023

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your continued support throughout another busy year.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Hugh and Family

15/12/2023

Sunflower Hearts back in stock

07/11/2023

LOTS OF PRICE REDUCTIONS on large bags of BIRD FOOD

ARGENTINE PEANUTS 25 kg for £46 -- 12.5 kg for £25, - 5 kg for £12.95, -- 2.5 kg for £6.95, 1.5 kg for £4.25

SUNFLOWER HEARTS, 20 kg for £27.95, 12.5 kg for £19.90,- 5 kg for £9.95, - 2.5 kg for £5.50, 1.5 kg for £3.50

NIGER SEED 25 kg for £45, - ---- 12.5 kg for £25, --- - 5 kg for £11.45, --- 2.5 kg for £5.95, -- 1.5 kg for £3.95,

BLACK SUNFLOWER , 25 kg for £24.95 - 12.5 kg for £14.95 , - 4 kg for £6.95, - 1.5 kg for £2.95

STRIPED SUNFLOWER , 10 kg for £17.95, -- 1.5 kg for £4.50,

COLONEL'S, HIGH ENERGY, MIXTURES. NO MESS HIGH QUALITY INGREDIENTS

ALL SEASONS WITH FRUIT, 20 kg for £26.95, - - 5 kg for £8.75, -- 2 kg for £3.75,

SUPREME WILD BIRD , 20 kg for £26.95 -- 2.5 kg for £4.50,

PREMIUM BIRD MIX , 20 kg for £21.90, -- 5 kg for £7.95 -- 1.5 kg for £2.50

ROBIN & SONGBIRD FOOD, 15 kg for £22.95 -- 1 kg for £1.95,

COLONEL'S , ORIGINAL, WILD BIRD MIXTURES, (GOOD QUALITY AND VALUE )

XTRA+ANISEED,20 kg for £18.95,- 12.5 kg for £11.95.-- 5 kg for £6.50 ,--1.kg for£1.95

CITY BLEND , 20 KG for £19.95, -- 12.5 kg for £12.95

CHICK PICK 12.5 kg for £11.45 Economy mix for feeding large birds on ground.

FAT BALLS , 6 pack for £1, -- 42' in BAG for £6.50 , -- 150 in BOX for £15.95,

SUPERIOR FAT BALLS, 4 pack £1 -- 28 in a BAG £6.50, -- 160 in A BOX for £27

LARGE FAT BALLS, 12 for £8.50, or 75 p each

SUET BLOCKS £1 each or 20 for £19.95

COCONUT SUET FILLED FEEDER, £1.45 each ,-- 4 for £5.50

SUET PELLETS , Berry 12.5 kg bag £24.95, -- Peanut & Mealworm 12.5kg bag £27, Mixed Pellets 5 kg Bag £13.95, -- 2.5 kg Bag £7.50, --- 1kg bag £3.25

MEALWORMS, -- 12.55 kg for £85, -- 5 kg for £48. --- 3 kg for £32, -- 1 kg for £11.95, --- 500 gm for £6.95, --- 250 gm for £3.75

BLACK RAISINS for SONG BIRDS,1 kg for £1.95, 10 kg for £16 ,MAY HARM DOGS

CHOPPED PEANUTS,15 kg for £34.-- 5 kg for £13.95. --2.5 kg for £7.50. -- 1.5 kg & £4.75

MONKEY NUTS For SQUIRRELS, 11.33 kg bag for £34,--- 1 kg bag for £3.95

MIXED CORN 20 kg bag for £13.95 -- 12.5 kg for £9.95

LAYERS PELLETS OR MASH 20 kg bags for £14.95 -- 12.5 kg for £10.95

CUT MAIZE for PHEASANTS,DUCKS & SQUIRRELS £17.50 for 20 kg,-- £3.95 for 2.5 kg

24/10/2023

Thank you to Belfast Media for this article in their papers
DÚLRA: Cost-of-living crisis is hitting our birdlife
ARE birds getting hungrier? Every day Dúlra has to refill the feeder in the garden when at one time it seemed like only a weekly chore.
Dúlra can only think it’s because of the sunflower hearts – years ago the only food we’d put in feeders were peanuts. Birds couldn’t lift out an individual nut but had to literally hang around to prise out wee pieces. But sunflower hearts seem to be the ultimate bird food – they go nuts for them, pun intended!
They’re called ‘hearts’ because they have been removed from their husk, so there’s no work for the birds to do. They just pick out the protein-rich seed and swallow. The problem is that it has become as expensive as feeding a family, but Dúlra considers the garden birds as his family of sorts, so it’s got to be done. It’s estimated that 53 per cent of sunflower seeds are grown in Russia and Ukraine – we can eat those hearts as well and you’ll often find them in salads – but the war between those two countries has not only affected our lives, but the lives of our garden birds.
Dúlra has noticed the price of sunflower hearts rocketing and the bags themselves getting smaller. One shop which has battled to keep the price down is Temple Garden and Farm Shop on the road to Ballynahinch. Owner Hugh Gilmore has earned a reputation as the premium bird food supplier in these parts, and what started as an offshoot to his thriving plant business seems to be taking up more and more space in his colourful shop.
Bird lovers travel from far-off places to stock up on their sunflower hearts here. When Dúlra was there this week there were plenty of sacks being loaded into car boots. It might be mild now, but our birds will need help to see them through the winter, so now’s the time to get those feeders ready.
At £27.95 for a 20kg sack, it was a big outlay, but it should see Dúlra through to Christmas (that’s in 74 days time in case you were wondering). And that’s filling up the feeders every single day. But even a small bag of sunflower seeds put into a feeder will transform the birdlife in your garden or back yard. Beautiful birds like goldfinches and blue t**s won’t take long to discover them, and how can you put a price on having creatures like that for company?
Every year the variety of birds that these seeds attract changes. Amazing birds that were rarely seen by anyone except the most ardent twitchers – finches like siskins and redpolls – used to love them, but for some reason they’ve decided to stay in our hills in recent years. But they’ve been replaced by another finch – the bigger greenfinch, which was mysteriously wiped out by a disease a decade ago. Nature usually finds a way to overcome most challenges, and the greenfinch has returned from the brink.
A family of them – including four youngsters, which means a successful breeding season – pay a visit at least once a day, their strong beaks devouring a stomach-full of sunflower hearts. So far Dúlra hasn’t had any greater spotted woodpeckers, although many readers have.
One reader in Poleglass recently reported how this bird, which has returned to Ireland after an absence of 200 years, wouldn’t tolerate any other birds on the feeder and actually ripped off the wing of a goldfinch who had been feeding alongside it. That famous beak has many uses!
And when you have plenty of birds at your feeder, there’s every chance a bird of prey will notice. Last winter there wasn’t a day that went by without a sparrow hawk raiding Dúlra’s garden in a lighting strike. Most days the only sign of a visit was the pile of feathers scattered on the lawn, usually with the odd yellow one among them, meaning it had chosen a goldfinch. It seems those beautiful colours aren’t a good idea after all!
As Dúlra was filling the feeders yesterday, a bird landed on the top of the holly tree, a bird that he hadn’t seen for, well... for the best part of a year.
Redwings – (deargán sneachta, red flash of the snow) in Irish – have arrived from Scandinavia to find a country that has yet to shake off summer. These birds behave like clockwork, leaving their home countries at the same time each year as winter approaches.
They are sustained here by berries on our hedgerows, or at least they were until it became fashionable for farmers to trim them. Dúlra’s holly tree is packed with bright red berries and the single redwing was busy hoovering them up.
Whatever about global warming, we can’t avoid winter altogether. In the next few weeks temperatures will plummet and the migrant birds will flood in. They’ll all need our help, and thankfully there are plenty of readers who are more than willing to do just that. Dúlra just hopes that the redwings will leave a few berries on the holly tree for Christmas!
•If you’ve seen or photographed anything interesting, or have any nature questions, you can text Dúlra on 07801 414804.

22/10/2023

Thank you to the McBride family for the lovely advertisement on the new sign at the Temple.

13/08/2023

UP to date price list, 13/ 8/ 23
ARGENTINE PEANUTS 25 kg for £46 12.5 kg for £25, 5 kg for £12.95, 2.5 kg for £6.95, 1.5 kg for £4.25
SUNFLOWER HEARTS, 20 kg for £27.95, 12.5 kg for £19.90, 5 kg for £9.95, 2.5 kg for £5.50, 1.5 kg for £3.50
NIGER SEED 25 kg for £45, 12.5 kg for £25, 5 kg for £11.45, 2.5 kg for £5.95, 1.5 kg for £3.95,
BLACK SUNFLOWER , 25 kg for £32 12.5 kg for £17.95 , 4 kg for £6.95, 1.5 kg for £2.95
STRIPED SUNFLOWER , 10 kg for £21.50, 1.5 kg for £4.50,
COLONEL'S, HIGH ENERGY, MIXTURES. NO MESS HIGH QUALITY INGREDIENTS
ALL SEASONS WITH FRUIT, 20 kg for £26.95, 5 kg for £8.75, 2 kg for £3.75,
SUPREME WILD BIRD , 20 kg for £26.95 2.5 kg for £4.50,
PREMIUM BIRD MIX , 20 kg for £22.90, 5 kg for £7.95 1.5 kg for £2.50
ROBIN & SONGBIRD FOOD, 15 kg for £22.95 1 kg for £1.95,
COLONEL'S , ORIGINAL, WILD BIRD MIXTURES, (GOOD QUALITY AND VALUE )
XTRA+ANISEED,20 kg for £19.95, 12.5 kg for £12.95. 5 kg for £6.50 ,1.kg for£1.95
CITY BLEND , 20 KG for £20.95, 12.5 kg for £12.95
CHICK PICK 12.5 kg for £12.95 Economy mix for feeding large birds on ground.
FAT BALLS SMALL, 30 BUCKET for £5.99 ,
FAT BALLS , 6 pack for £1, 42' in BAG for £6.50 , 150 in BOX for £15.95,
NEW PREMIUM FAT BALLS 35 in BAG for £6.50 , 150 in BOX for £19.95 NEW
SUPERIOR FAT BALLS, 4 pack £1 28 in a BAG £6.50, 160 in A BOX for £27
LARGE FAT BALLS, 12 for £8.50, or 75 p each
SUET BLOCKS £1 each or 10 for £9.50
COCONUT SUET FILLED FEEDER, £1.45 each , 4 for £5.50
SUET PELLETS , Berry 12.5 kg bag £24.95, Peanut & Mealworm 12.5kg bag £27, Mixed 5 kg Bag £13.95, Mixed 2.5 kg Bag £7.50, Mixed 1kg bag £3.25
MEALWORMS,12.55 kg for £100, 5 kg for £55. 3 kg for £34, 1 kg for £11.95, 500 gm for £6.95, 250 gm for £3.75
BLACK RAISINS for SONG BIRDS,1 kg for £1.95, 10 kg for £16 ,MAY HARM DOGS
CHOPPED PEANUTS,15 kg for £34. 5 kg for £13.95. 2.5 kg for £7.50. 1.5 kg & £4.75
MONKEY NUTS For SQUIRRELS, 11.33 kg bag for £32, 1 kg bag for £3.95
MIXED CORN 20 kg bag for £16.95 12.5 kg for £11.45
LAYERS PELLETS OR MASH 20 kg bags for £16.95 12.5 kg for £11.45
CUT MAIZE for PHEASANTS,DUCKS & SQUIRRELS £18.95 for 20 kg,£2.95 for 2.5 kg

31/07/2023

SUNFLOWER HEARTS, DOWN in PRICE
20 kg for £27.95,
12.5 kg for £19.90,
5 kg for £9.95,
2.5 kg for £5.50,
1.5 kg for £3.50