Love Wildlife at Giddy Pets
Love Wildlife makes bird butter and filled feeders aimed at garden birds rather than poultry or pigeons. The range is built around soft, spreadable fat mixes rather than seed alone, which suits smaller garden visitors who peck rather than crack shells. We stock the core butters and a filled feeder to go with them.
What Love Wildlife makes
The range centres on bird butter — a soft fat mix in a tub, meant to be smeared onto a feeder, a tree stump or a purpose-made holder rather than tipped into a seed hopper. It's a format aimed at birds that peck at soft food through a UK winter, when a high-fat, easy-to-eat option matters more than it does in summer.
Alongside the butters sits a filled feeder — a ready-loaded option for anyone who doesn't want to handle the tub directly, or who wants to hang something out quickly without decanting it first. Between the two, the range covers both the mess-free and the fill-it-yourself approach to the same idea.
The flavours we stock, and who they suit
Seed & Nut and Peanut are the closest to an all-rounder, aimed at the widest range of garden species and a reasonable choice if you're not sure what's visiting yet. Fruit & Berry leans towards birds that take fruit readily, and Mealworm & Insect is aimed at species that want protein over fat, particularly useful in spring and early summer when birds are feeding young.
None of it is a substitute for fresh water, which matters as much as food to garden birds year-round and is easy to forget when the feeder is the only thing being topped up.
The range
Everything below is in stock with us, priced with delivery worked out, and packed and posted by hand in the UK.
Love Wildlife Peanut Bird Butter
A simple three-ingredient suet bird butter, 375g, for feeders without seeds mixed in
£3.49
Love Wildlife Seed & Nut Bird Butter
A 375g suet bird butter with hemp seed and limestone flour mixed through it
£3.49
Love Wildlife Mealworm & Insect Bird Butter
A 375g suet bird butter with dried mealworms and larvae powder mixed through it
£3.49
Love Wildlife Fruit & Berry Bird Butter
A fruit and berry suet bird butter jar, for use in a compatible feeder
£3.49
Treat 'N' Eat Fatball 90g (No Net)
A single 90g high-energy fat ball for wild birds, netless for safe garden feeding
£0.29
Honeyfields Simply Suet Pellets with Insects
High-energy suet pellets with insects, at 490kcal per 100g, in two sizes
From£3.49
Brambles Float Swan Duck Food
Floating swan and duck food made in Great Britain, in two sack sizes
From£9.29
Peckish Complete Seed
A husk-free garden bird seed mix with Peckish's own added vitamin pellet
From£3.00
Peckish Robin Seed Mix
A 1KG insect-added seed mix from Peckish, marketed specifically at robins
£3.75
Peckish Winter Warmer Extra Energy Seed Mix
A 1KG winter seed mix with 9 ingredients and 20% oil for extra energy
£3.99
Sunflower Hearts
Dehusked sunflower hearts for wild birds, described as high in oil and no mess
£42.99
Johnston Jeff Selected Wild Bird Food
A wild bird seed mix with black oil sunflower for a wide range of garden birds
From£2.79
Common questions
- Is bird butter the same as suet?
- Not quite — suet is rendered animal fat set hard, while bird butter is a softer, spreadable fat mix designed to stay smearable at outdoor temperatures. Both are aimed at giving birds a concentrated source of energy, but bird butter is easier to apply to bark, a stump or a feeder without melting or crumbling in the way some suet blocks can.
- Which garden birds actually eat bird butter?
- Smaller species that peck rather than crack shells tend to take to it fastest — tits, robins and similar visitors are the usual early takers. Give it a few days in a spot birds already visit before assuming nothing's interested, since a brand new feeder or flavour is rarely found on day one.
- Do I need a special feeder for bird butter?
- You don't strictly need one — it can be smeared directly onto bark or a stump — but a filled or purpose-made feeder keeps it off the ground and away from anything that might rummage through it overnight. It also makes it easier to see at a glance when it needs topping up.
- How often should I refill it?
- That depends entirely on how much traffic the feeder gets, which varies a lot through the year — expect it to empty faster in cold weather and when birds are feeding chicks. Check every few days rather than working to a fixed schedule, and top up before it runs out completely rather than after.
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Written by Matt Garnett, who runs Giddy Pets and is a lifelong pet owner — not a vet. This is general information, not veterinary advice, and it cannot replace an examination by the vet who knows your animal. How we write these guides.