i make my own fat balls out of lard or veggie suet then put in oats, seed and dried fruit very cheap to make and they go nuts over it (pardon the pun) had some dried veg mix which i put in as well, along with all the fresh bread crumbs i have. I do have bird feeders but when i make fat balls everything else gets eaten last, shame to say i get the chavs of the bird world starlings, pigeons, magpies, i do put seeds round the edge of garden as the robins thrushes and blackbirds like them. I'm in competition with my neighbour she gets all the sparrows finches and pied wagtails i love them the chicks look like little pom poms bless em, kinda of eeire though i think i potter around the garden and it looks like a scene from the birds, word gets round and all the roof tops around me fill up slowly and they watch me