Few hobbies offer as much pleasure or satisfaction as bird-watching in your yard. To attract as many songbirds as possible, choose from Chewy’s top-rated seed blend selection.
Avoid feeding wild birds mixes containing filler ingredients like milo or wheat. Never feed bread, crackers or popcorn as these contain no nutritional benefit and could lead to malnutrition in their bodies.
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Kaytee Peanuts
Birds adore this gourmet wild bird seed mix! Their feathered friends especially adore its rich, whole peanuts as well as the high energy content from black oil sunflower seeds and striped sunflower seeds in this no-mess blend, plus crack corn. Plus, cardinals, finches, titmice and quins will visit your feeder!
Wagner’s premium bird food contains no hulls or shells and its peanuts have been cut into beak-size pieces to make them easier for birds to consume. Plus, there’s plenty of safflower – beloved by cardinals, titmice and chickadees alike!
Kibbled peanuts are ideal for platform feeders and help prevent bird parents from feeding their chicks full-sized peanuts that might choke them. Plus, this all-natural food is aflatoxin-free to ensure garden birds can safely enjoy it!
Corn
Popular among backyard birders, this wild bird seed blend can be enjoyed year-round in covered fly-through or large tube feeders. Packed full of black oil sunflower seeds, millet and cracked corn that birds love.
As opposed to other wild bird seed mixes that contain filler seeds such as milo (also known as sorghum), which many birds disregard, this one excludes these lower quality ingredients in order to attract more species and reduce unwanted pests such as starlings, grackles, and house sparrows.
This blend also avoids canary seed, which sprouts when it hits the ground and can quickly clog your feeders or cause unsightly weeds in your lawn. Instead, this recipe includes white proso millet which is preferred by ground feeding birds while not pest birds such as grackles and starlings.
Dried Fruit
Dried fruit can add an extra treat that will attract birds to your feeder, though beware of using those preserved with sulfites as wild birds can have negative reactions to these products.
Other dried fruits suitable as bird food include cherries, berries and cranberries. You could also set out grape jelly in brightly-colored dishes to attract orioles, house finches and woodpeckers.
This blend of premium seeds and nuts will attract fruit- and nut-loving birds like woodpeckers, chickadees, titmice and nuthatches. Made without corn, millet or fillers – and fortified with essential nutrients – it has no corn content at all and should therefore help discourage squirrels and other mammals from raiding feeders! Suitable for use in hopper, platform and tube feeders to promote wildlife viewing enjoyment!
Peanuts/Peanut Butter
Peanut butter is a popular bird seed ingredient that attracts numerous species to your yard. Packed full of proteins, fats, calcium, phosphorus, fiber and lysine; plus it also contains oleic acid to support healthy cholesterol and blood pressure levels.
Use whole peanuts in their shell or unsalted roasted nuts that have been broken up to attract birds of most varieties, with unsalted nuts being broken up into smaller pieces or both. A mixture that includes both will attract most bird species. A mix can be offered in any feeder you offer it in, including squirrel-proof feeders; additionally it makes an ideal addition to suet blocks used by goldfinches and woodpeckers as a treat! Safflower seed blend is another good way of discouraging squirrels while providing energy sources – not to mention providing birds energy!
Safflower
Safflower seeds may be smaller than black oil sunflower seeds, but they’re equally as nutritious and can help deter pest birds like grackles and starlings while simultaneously attracting cardinals, chickadees, finches, titmice and woodpeckers – not to mention no squirrels!
This irresistible mix features black oil sunflower seed, millet and milo to attract colorful songbirds to your yard, as well as safflower seed to lure cardinals and grosbeaks. Plus, its great for deterring squirrels and other mammals!
Register for autoship and have bird seed delivered regularly as needed – saving both time and money in the process! Signing up on Chewy website (click here for more info), Tractor Supply store (which also offer online ordering with in-store pickup at many locations), or Amazon can all make life simpler!
