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Cumbria's wild bird and red squirrel feeding specialist. Our friendly staff are happy to give advice and help about any aspect of feeding your garden birds

Our quality birdseed mixes produced in the heart of Cumbria are designed to attract the maximum number of birds to your garden. Unlike many other bird seed producers, we don't add cheap fillers like wheat that the birds don't eat - just nutritionally balanced quality ingredients. Our fantastic shop is open to the public 7 days a week and stocks a huge range of wild bird, red squirrel and other wildlife gifts and accessories including the largest selection of bird feeders in the UK.

30/10/2026

Here’s Spangle and his girls enjoying a sunny October day, before the storms last weekend.
The hen at the front, Betty, is not collapsed, she’s sunbathing 😆
Did you know we sell chicken food, bedding and hardwood chippings (good for keeping mud under control in outdoor runs). We can deliver to you on our local delivery rounds in Cumbria.

https://birdsbistro.co.uk/product-category/chickens/

19/10/2026

Last chance to get a lovely treat for your birds - a free Flutter Butter starter pack.
Join Cumbria Wildlife Trust as a member today and we will send you your free flutter butter starter pack.

13/10/2026

Picture and Poem for October

This months picture is of the autumn colours around the RSPB centre at Naddle Farm, Haweswater. The poem as usual is from my Cumbrian Year Collection. I hope you enjoy them
Jonathan @ the Birds Bistro.

October
I walk beneath the chattering beech
As leaves depart the restless bough
And vistas lost by summers canopy
Reveal the work of autumn plough

The dark earth turned its face to light
Disturbed from sleep by man’s device
Then sown with mantle of winter wheat
Soon returns to slumbers deep

The hedges now a tracery
Display a precious load
Of burnished bronze and hammered copper
And of molten gold

A gift to autumn from summer’s forge
With berry and the hip
And the sweet smell of the woodsmoke
As evening fires are lit

07/10/2026

It's the time of year when helping your hedgehog can boost their chances of surviving the winter.

The Birds' Bistro has a large range of Hedgehog Houses in stock, all at 25% off from 5th October to 5th November

Click here to go to the hedgehog house page
https://birdsbistro.co.uk/product-category/happyhedgehog/hedgehoghouses/

We also have Spikes, Brambles and Vales hedgehog food in stock to get our little friends fed and ready to hibernate.

The Birds' Bistro Team

29/09/2026

Picture and poem of the month.
For September, I have chosen a painting I composed on a windy Lakeland day with clouds scurrying across the sky. The poem is from my Cumbria Year collection and I hope captures something of the changing seasons.

September
The tapestry is fading fast
Leached of summer’s verdant green
Replaced in part by silver threads
Upon the bushes gleam
Where cobwebs shimmer in the light
As in a waking dream

The morning mist lies on the valley
Hiding hedge and field from sight
Thinning by the afternoon
When all is bathed in golden light

Bold Yarrow and the Scabious
Still bloom beneath the hedge
And butterflies bask in the sun
Upon the feathered sedge

The swallows soon on final flight
In filial groups still take delight
To dive and skim across the meadow
Until the twilight stretches shadows
Then following silent conclave start
Their journey to those distant parts
And over sun baked buildings flit
Beyond the reach of winters grip

17/09/2026

We have a promotion on nuts until the end of September and not just monkey nuts 😉

Pop over and have a look
https://birdsbistro.co.uk/

30/08/2026

August Bank Holiday Monday

We are open tomorrow 12-4

25/08/2026

We had a beautiful visitor in the garden yesterday- I believe it was a humming bird hawk moth? It was a treat to see 🥰

21/08/2026

Picture and poem for August. The picture this month is of a sunset I captured a few years ago looking west across the eastern fells. The poem as usual, is drawn from my Cumbria Year collection. It has a certain resonance this year with the drought we have experienced.
I hope you like them.
Jonathan at The Birds Bistro.

August
As daylight hours begin to dwindle
And nature’s rhythm gently slows
All around are stark reminders
Of times relentless flow

Young birds from the nest departed
Grasses turned to seed
Berries ripe upon the bramble
The beck side clothed in weeds

The rich earth now is dry and cracked
And baked beneath the sun
Stubble where the wheat stood tall
And where the lone hare runs

At end of day the sun departs
Amidst a tapestry of gold
And shadows lengthen on the track
That leads down to our home

For the year is further now
From cradle than the grave
And many endings now begun
Amidst the new life made
For all that lives will have its summer
Then into twilight fade

18/08/2026

We moved squirrel cam to the other side of the garden. We are getting some lovely visits.
The robins seem to be fascinated by the camera, maybe seeing their reflections. Here’s 4 visitors from last couple of days, showing different stages of plumage. Turn up the volume for the beautiful song we get from one of them on video 3🥰 (other videos not so tuneful 😆)

Address

The Old Forge, Penruddock
Penrith
CA110RD

Opening Hours

Monday	10am - 5pm
Tuesday	10am - 5pm
Wednesday	10am - 5pm
Thursday	10am - 5pm
Friday	10am - 5pm
Saturday	10am - 4pm
Sunday	12pm - 4pm

Telephone

+441768483100

Website

http://www.thebirdsbistro.co.uk/

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