Peanut feeders bring birds of many species into your backyard. Chickadees love to sneak food between their feet, then hammer away at it with their beaks or even hide it under logs before returning for more. It’s fascinating watching their antics!
Bring peanuts and seed blends such as WBU Choice or No-Mess Plus outside to attract woodpeckers, chickadees, nuthatches, jays and titmice; all require high energy food in wintertime.
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Suitable for a wide range of birds
Peanuts provide energy and protein needed for nest-building by wild birds, providing energy sources that support nesting activities and offspring production.
Peanuts draw in many species of birds to your backyard feeders. Woodpeckers, titmice, nuthatches, chickadees and jays all flock to these delicious snacks which they often store away as future meals.
Peanuts can be served up using various feeders, from basic peanut or suet cages to sophisticated wooden and metal birdhouses with built-in perches for finches that allow them to engage with their food acrobatically.
Your seed blends can benefit from adding shelled or unshelled peanuts for additional calcium intake – especially important during egg laying and hatching in female birds. Our No-Mess Plus Blend offers this service, including oil sunflower, peanuts in their shells and Jim’s Birdacious Bark Butter Bits to complete its formulation.
Attracts a wide range of birds
Wild Birds Unlimited McKinney only sells top quality bird food – unlike the cheap bulk bird seed you might find hidden away at hardware or big box retail stores! Experience what a difference top-quality food makes! You will be astounded!
Our shelled peanuts are fresh, raw and untreated to maintain their high energy value and attract woodpeckers, nuthatches and jays – as well as being great food sources for clinging birds like chickadees and titmice! They provide excellent food sources for these birds!
With our WBU Recycled Combo Feeder designed specifically to hold in-shell peanuts, it’s exciting to observe Blue Jays crack open each peanut and devour it – and even “weigh” different peanuts to decide which one they will gobble next! It’s fascinating watching their antics as they nibble away at each one! It can even be fun watching as multiple Peanuts at the same time are put into their bills by them or they decide between multiple varieties!
Try our Wildlife Blend for an array of shelled and in-shell peanuts sure to please a wide range of birds, squirrels and chipmunks alike!
Attracts Blue Jays
Blue Jays are brilliant visitors to backyard feeders. While they may sometimes become troublemakers at feeders, their presence actually helps regulate populations of crows and other birds that consume too many seeds.
Birds store seeds and nuts to be collected later, making frequent trips to feeders to assemble food to store away for winter. Their diet typically consists of peanuts in their shells, sunflower chips, suet blends, mealworms and whole or cracked corn as food sources.
Jays are frequent visitors to wild fruit trees for acorns and other tree fruits, becoming familiar enough with humans that they’ll approach with open arms to feed on them. Once domesticated, Jays can become friendly toward people; often talking and imitating other bird calls while even imitating human voices! Their noisy antics make these delightful birds fun to watch!
Attracts Red-bellied Woodpeckers
Woodpeckers are drawn to feeders offering peanuts and high-energy foods such as black oil sunflower seeds, millet, and striped sunflower chips. Tree nuts, mealworms and seed blends such as the WBU Choice or No-Mess Blends also attract them, as do berries, fruits and nectar-laden flower blooms.
They prefer open woodlands and mature, mixed deciduous forests with dead trees (called snags ) available to excavate nest cavities for nest building purposes. Furthermore, they frequently visit backyard feeders when nearby dead snags offer opportunities to excavate.
If you want to attract more woodpeckers to your feeder, this unique Woodpecker Feeder from Wild Birds Unlimited could be just what’s needed! Fill it with peanuts out of shell or mixes like our WBU Birdacious Bark Butter; use a fork to create ridges in Jim’s Birdacious Bark Butter so it is easier for woodpeckers to grab a bite – reports indicate this feeder attracts over 150 species! It has even been reported to attract over 150 different bird species!
