I feed a good seed mix from Jacobi Jayne - have a look at their website. They do mail order and are excellent. I feed Special Mix standard one. Every two weeks I order two 12.5kg sacks (yes it costs me a fortune but I never go to the hairdresser so that's where I like to spend my money!) plus a box of Robin Mix which the blackbirds also devour. The seed is in two large feeders with saucers on the bottom and are visited by wood pigeons, collared doves, bullfinches, greenfinches (they have not quite returned yet but always are away for most of June) chaffinches, Bluetits, great-tits, coal tits, sparrows, robins. I also have a niger seed feeder which empties every two days. This is quite a tall one and my goldfinches number around 15 at the minute. They have brought two lots of babies so far.
The starlings are fed a breakfast every day. This consists of breadcrumbs, digestive biscuit crumbs, grated cheese, sultanas and any table scraps. If I go away then I make up enough for each day away (makes your fingers ache all that crumbling) and leave it bagged up in the fridge for my feathered friends to be fed by a neighbour.
I spend far less on them during the winter months as the feeding day is very short - say from 8.30 am till 3.30 pm whereas this time of year they start around 4.30 and finish around 9! As I type this the latest baby goldfinch is twittering in the apple tree fluttering its wings while the parent tries patiently to get it to come to the feeder.
I also have an old frying pan filled with water for them. I have a birdbath too but the frying pan is really popular with all the birds. It also attracts insects and, of course, my hedgie can get a much needed drink on his amble through the garden. I have a very small garden and we live on the edge of a small estate. I am known as "the bird woman"
Taz x