Rejoicing in watching birds take delight in feasting upon delicious treats can be immensely gratifying, while providing them with necessary nutrition can bring great peace of mind.
Valley Splendor Wild Bird Food is an economical blend that attracts an assortment of birds to your feeders, such as finches, titmice, jays and sparrows. Fill hopper, tube, platform or ground feeders with this seed blend and watch as finches, titmice, jays and sparrows flock to your yard!
Contents
Sunflower Seeds
This seed mix is designed to attract a wide range of backyard birds such as Chickadees, Nuthatches, Titmice and Woodpeckers. Ideal for use in hopper, platform or tube feeders; and suet cakes too, its contents include black oil sunflower seeds, striped sunflower seeds and safflower seed formulated specifically to draw cardinals in.
Safflower seed is another high-protein and fat-rich bird food popular with finches, chickadees, titmice and woodpeckers. Though smaller than black oil sunflower seeds and with its harder shell it makes consumption harder for squirrels, safflower seeds also attract ground feeding species such as doves, sparrows juncos and quail; often sold at discounted mixes.
Sunflower Hearts
Whole sunflower seeds are an easy and convenient way to attract various wild birds. Their digestibility provides vital energy sources while the waste products left behind leave debris-laden trails across gardens and lawns.
Sunflower hearts provide all of the same essential vitamins and nutrients found in black oil sunflower seeds without their messy husks, making feeding easier while drawing in more species such as finches and goldfinches.
Display straight sunflower seeds and hearts in hopper, tube and platform feeders. Just be sure to set out only enough seed for one day’s worth at once to prevent moisture and bacteria from spoiling it!
Millet
This small seed is very popular with various bird species. It can often be found in various bird food mixes and its highly nutritious yet slightly fatty seeds are enjoyed by chickadees, titmice, nuthatches, woodpeckers and cardinals alike.
Suet is an ideal food source for valley splendor wild birds in cold weather conditions, providing high energy-packed nourishment as well as keeping birds warm during chilly temperatures.
Feeding wild birds requires essential components. One such component is providing them with essential vitamins and fats for healthy development and long-term wellbeing.
Peanuts
Peanut (Arachis hypogaea), also referred to as groundnut, goober, pindar or monkey nut is an edible legume crop widely cultivated for its seeds. Part of the family Fabaceae – along with peas and beans – it adds nitrogen-rich soil when grown as with any legume crop.
These nuts can help boost the nutritional content in any mix and help birds maintain energy. A great addition to any feeder or ground source.
This mixture of black oil sunflower, striped sunflower seeds, sunflower chips, red millet, cracked corn, nyjer seed and peanut kernels will attract finches, chickadees, nuthatches, woodpeckers and cardinals among many other songbirds. Fill hopper, tube or platform feeders or scatter across the ground for doves and other dove scavenging species to enjoy this treat!
Raisins
Assuring their feeders attract a wide array of birds is key. Offering high energy blends will keep birds active throughout the day.
Raisins are a type of dried grape, typically produced from Muscat grapes grown on white Muscat vines or yellow Corinthian vines. Both varieties contain dietary fiber and flavonoids that may aid digestion while also acting as hypolipidemic agents to inhibit cholesterol absorption.
They can be added to any type of bird seed to provide extra energy boost for birds, as well as placed in hopper, platform or tube feeders to attract various species of birds. They’re also an excellent source of potassium and iron!
