BIRD SEED

Black Oil Sunflower
This seed has more meat and fewer hulls per seed. The black oil seed with its high oil content is richer in protein, fats, vitamins and minerals. They are also easier for birds to open. To avoid having sunflower hulls accumulating below your feeder shelled sunflower seed is also available.

Safflower Seed
Like sunflower seed, this is rich and therefore particularly beneficial to birds in winter. Its though-coated seeds are not eaten by many unwelcome guests, but are eaten by birds most people like, including chickadees, titmice and nuthatches. Starlings, grackles, cowbirds and red-winged blackbirds are unable to crack the shells. Birds may be slow to accept safflower seed at first. We recommend mixing it with sunflower seeds until the birds grow accustomed to it.

Niger Seed
Also oil rich, small finches are able to eat at the special feeders designed for Niger seed. American goldfinches, pine siskens, common redpolls, purple finches and house finches will abandon other foods for niger seed.

 

 

Pasquesi Four Season
Pasquesi Four Season is our No Waste Mix. It's a mixture of sunflower meats, white proso millet, cracked corn and peanut hearts. It contains no shells so there is no mess to clean up under your feeder.

Suet Cakes
Suet cakes are the most popular bird food after black oil sunflower seed. Commercial suet cakes have the advantage of being highly refined and very hard which retards spoilage. They also fit well in suet feeders.

WINTER BIRD FEEDING
The key to survival for birds in winter is the same as for other animals that must endure the cold season. They must find enough food each day and protect themselves against the cold, and they must remain alert to outfox their natural predators. To do this, birds need a great deal of food.

Some birds such as chickadees and finches eat almost constantly. A chickadee living in temperatures well below freezing must spend about 20 times as much time eating each day as it does during warm weather.

Not only the quantity of food, but the type of food birds eat in winter is critical. They need richer food to boost their metabolism. These types of feed will help birds get the nourishment they so badly need in winter.