Feeding wild birds is an engaging way to reconnect with nature. By offering quality seed and feeders, it helps ensure healthy bird populations, especially during extreme winter weather conditions.
Sunflower seeds are one of the most beloved gifts you can offer to birds, attracting cardinals, nuthatches, finches and chickadees alike. Other popular choices are white millet, nyjer seeds, safflower and cracked corn.
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Kaytee’s Wild Bird Food Basic Blend
One of America’s favorite blends, this simple seed mixture has quickly become a mainstay at many backyard feeders. Containing hulled sunflower seeds, shelled peanuts, black oil sunflower seed, millet, and other appetizing ingredients that lure songbirds year-round; additional supplements help them deal with winter, breeding and migration stresses more efficiently; it is suitable for use in hopper feeders, large tube feeders and covered fly-through feeders with chewy customer reviews rating it highly for cardinals, chickadees, nuthatches mourning doves and sparrows alike!
Kaytee Select Blend is the ideal way to attract an array of colorful outdoor birds into your yard. Packed with more than double the black oil sunflower seeds of our everyday basic blend and other nutritious ingredients that attract many birds, it will bring many more visitors.
Perky-Pet® Cardinal Blend
Perky-Pet’s Wild Bird Seed Mix will attract cardinals, chickadees and nuthatches alike to your backyard. Packed with black oil sunflower seeds and sunflower hearts–both high in fat content to give feathered friends energy–white millet (a small round seed that ground-feeding birds love), milo (which turkeys, game birds and doves especially enjoy eating), white millet and other favorites, plus white milo from cheap bird seed mixes such as Milo which you’ll find Milo in cheap bird seed mixes–you won’t regret buying Perky-Pet!
The bronze panorama feeder offers plenty of room for your feathered visitors with its circular perch and can accommodate 1.8 pounds of seed at one time, easily cleaned via its shatter-resistant plastic reservoir and equipped with a Sure Lock cap system to prevent squirrels from raiding it for food.
This feeder’s convertible ports enable you to quickly switch from Nyjer seed to mixed seed or any other variety with minimal adjustments, giving you greater control of which species come to visit your yard. This way, your feeder can be tailored specifically to the species that most interest you!
Perky-Pet® Sunflower Blend
This popular bird seed mix draws in cardinals, robins, thrashers and chickadees with black oil sunflower seeds processed to reduce fungus and mildew growth. Also included is an assortment of other seeds to draw in wild birds including white proso millet, cracked corn and red milo. Our research showed that pigeons and doves tended to ignore this mix but still consumed other seeds (Corn).
Hang this metal tube feeder from any window or tree limb and watch as your backyard becomes overrun with feathery friends! Six feeding ports ensure multiple birds can feed simultaneously while each port features a comfortable perch for ease of feeding. A shatter-resistant plastic reservoir with wide mouth opening makes refilling effortless; an antique finish adds classic style while perfect gift giving for the bird lover in your life!
Perky-Pet® Golden Safflower Blend
Offering different feeders and food in your backyard can provide essential nutrition for wild birds that don’t find enough on their own. A mixture of high-energy seeds and nuts may keep these feathered friends nourished during a hard winter season.
Experts often recommend black oil sunflower seeds to attract the widest variety of species to feeders. With low maintenance requirements and a high percentage of fat and protein, this easy-care seed attracts chickadees, nuthatches, titmice and cardinals alike!
If you want to attract specific species of birds, Lyric’s Birds A’ Bite High Energy Mix could be just what’s needed. With in-the-shell peanuts (which squirrels may struggle with), sunflower seeds, cranberries and dried mulberries it provides plenty of sustenance that house finches, purple finches and pine siskins will enjoy feasting upon!
