When choosing bird seed mixes for your feeder, try selecting ones without shells or hulls to prevent debris from getting in your feeding station. Lyric Fine Tunes is an excellent option that attracts finches.
Wagner’s Premium Nyjer is an outstanding option for attracting finches, offering lower pricing than most brands and providing exceptional customer value.
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Suet Cakes
Suet is a high-protein, fat-dense food source designed to provide energy-rich energy sources for wild birds during their most extreme times of the year. This food source can be easily added into hanging cage feeders or placed into tree trunks or hollowed-out logs to feed these winged creatures – available in numerous shapes and sizes to attract various types of birdlife.
Birds metabolize animal fat for energy and will store it as reserves during periods of cold weather when other foods may be scarce. Numerous bird species enjoy suet as sustenance; examples include woodpeckers, chickadees and goldfinches.
Search for products containing real suet (rendering of beef fat), not vegetable oil. You can make your own suet cake by melting down lard or beef tallow (fat trimmings from butcher shops) over the stove until melted into a cake form – some butchers even offer these scraps at steep discounts or for free! Alternatively, rendered plain suet cakes may be found at wild bird supply stores, garden centers and pet stores – these will still save money but still won’t get them for free.
Sunflower Seeds
Sunflower seeds are an extremely popular bird treat. Packed full of fiber and protein, as well as heart-healthy polyunsaturates. Many people find roasting their sunflower seeds before shelling more flavorful, as it makes shelling much simpler and shells are much simpler to crack open.
Black oil sunflower seeds feature thin shells that make them easier for most seed-eating birds to crack open, creating less waste than their thicker-coated counterparts. Some feeder owners also prefer Nyjer thistle seed, though special feeders and attracts invasive thistles as a result.
Wagner’s Classic Blend offers an easy and no-mess way to attract chickadees, blue jays, and other birds with minimal mess: sunflower seeds, white proso millet, cracked corn and black oil sunflower seeds. To maximize success with wild birds eating your offerings without an abundance of wasteful fillers such as red milo, wheat oats or canary seed that quickly sprout on the ground before being consumed by wild birds.
Peanuts
Peanuts (Arachis hypogaea) are an ideal food choice to attract various species of songbirds. Not only are they well preserved and easily eaten by birds, helping reduce waste; their affordability compares favorably with filler seeds such as milo or canary seed.
No waste bird food is an effective way to maintain a sanitary feeding area and save money on wasted or uneaten feed. They can be purchased individually or as blended products tailored specifically for certain bird species.
An all-edible mixture of shelled peanuts, sunflower chips and hulled white millet is best. A resealable bag will help preserve this food to prevent molding or insect infestation; you can serve it at wreath feeders, tube feeders or tray feeders; black-capped Chickadees and Woodpeckers will be attracted by peanuts while Orioles and Tanagers will find comfort from sunnier treats like sunflower chips and millet.
Black Oil Sunflower
Bird fans enjoy feeding their feathered friends, but it can become time-consuming to meet each species’s individual dietary requirements. A no mess bird seed bag makes the experience less taxing by limiting or eliminating wasted food that winds up under feeders.
Black Oil Sunflower Seeds attract many species of birds, such as chickadees, nuthatches, finches, grosbeaks and woodpeckers. Their thin shells allow many seed-eating birds to crack them quickly for consumption – with no waste generated below your feeder resulting from this method of distribution – providing essential sources of fats, proteins and other essential nutrients for their diet.
At our house, we like to keep a feeder filled with Black Oil Sunflower seed and another with Nyjer Thistle seed on hand at all times – both are excellent sources of protein, fat and other vital nutrients, making them the ideal choices for cold weather or winter feedings.
