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The most likely visitors are starlings, house sparrows, blackbirds, blue and great tits, robins, greenfinches and collared doves.
 In many gardens dunnocks, song thrushes and chaffinches will hop around on the ground below the birdtable. In wooded areas you may be lucky enough to see great spotted woodpeckers, nuthatches and coal, marsh and long-tailed tits. Look out for blackcaps, too - they are becoming regular visitors to some birdtables in winter.
All thrush species - fieldfares, redwings, mistle and song thrushes and blackbirds - visit gardens for fruit and berries. Feral ring-necked parakeets visit birdtables in south-east England and are spreading west and north. Siskins and bramblings can be regular visitors in some winters. You may also see sparrowhawks and kestrels in search of prey.
Insect-eating birds, such as wrens and treecreepers are unlikely to visit birdtables, but for treecreepers food can be pushed into cracks in bark and for wrens put beside an ivy-covered wall, a stump or along a hedge bottom. Goldfinches are attracted to seedheads of plants such as teasel, and the seed supply can be augmented by refilling the seedheads with nyjer seeds, which they love.
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