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Posted on 2/18/18 at 6:51 pm to Sao
I'm going to try cracked corn.
Posted on 2/18/18 at 6:55 pm to Big Sway
Cracked corn, or whole, is like heroin to birds after it has passed through the digestive tract of a cow or horse.
Posted on 2/18/18 at 7:44 pm to deeprig9
Rice. It will frick up their world. Lol
This post was edited on 2/18/18 at 7:44 pm
Posted on 2/18/18 at 7:45 pm to deeprig9
Black oil sunflower seed, baw.
Posted on 2/18/18 at 8:23 pm to deeprig9
Most will eat black sunflower seed.
Posted on 2/18/18 at 9:41 pm to potent357
quote:
I buy this huge bag from Tractor Supply that just says Wild Bird seed.
I buy that, and a huge bag of sunflower seeds.
I mix it in a 10 gallon bin, using a big scoop. Mix it around three scoops of sunflower seed to every two scoops of the Wild bird seed. Don't mind the squirrels eating it off the ground, but raccoons keep getting to the feeders and dumping them out.
I catch them, and dispose of them.
Posted on 2/18/18 at 9:50 pm to deeprig9
as the others say, most every bird loves millet and birds like cardinals and blue jays like sunflower seeds.
I have experienced the same thing with them picking around the milo. not expensive enough to warrant doing anything different, though.
I have experienced the same thing with them picking around the milo. not expensive enough to warrant doing anything different, though.
Posted on 2/18/18 at 10:29 pm to deeprig9
Old bread. I put a half a king cake on my squirrel feeder. I’ll be damned if the sonofabitches ate half where I put it and carried the rest up the tree. It was a site. I put out candy for them too. They probably have diabetes.
It to reiterate. Bread. I just throw it out on the ground. I have cardinals, blue jays, sparrows and doves. Even the occasional humming bird.
frickin sanctuary.
It to reiterate. Bread. I just throw it out on the ground. I have cardinals, blue jays, sparrows and doves. Even the occasional humming bird.
frickin sanctuary.
This post was edited on 2/18/18 at 10:31 pm
Posted on 2/19/18 at 12:11 am to tigersownall
Black sunflower seeds. My feeder holds 6 gallons.
Posted on 2/19/18 at 6:26 am to deeprig9
Sunflower seeds. That will draw many birds.
We've hung out a suet feeder too. The woodpeckers love that stuff.
A bit early for the hummingbird feeders. Mid-March is when we'll put those out for our Ruby Throated friends.
We've hung out a suet feeder too. The woodpeckers love that stuff.
A bit early for the hummingbird feeders. Mid-March is when we'll put those out for our Ruby Throated friends.
Posted on 2/19/18 at 7:12 am to Nawlens Gator
I attract blackbirds with the sunflower seeds. They are relentless.
Posted on 2/19/18 at 7:38 am to deeprig9
When I was living in NOLA the Monk Parrots loved the trees in my yard. They were extremely picky. Such beautiful birds though I eventually figured out they liked the seed with actual fruit pieces etc...
here in Texas it's mainly Cardinals and smaller species mainly finches that I can tell. I go all blackoil sunflower seed. The cardinals love it and the smaller birds seem to go for the leftovers
here in Texas it's mainly Cardinals and smaller species mainly finches that I can tell. I go all blackoil sunflower seed. The cardinals love it and the smaller birds seem to go for the leftovers
Posted on 2/19/18 at 8:55 am to deeprig9
Black Oil Sunflower seed is the absolute best.
Posted on 2/19/18 at 8:27 pm to Nature Boy
Why won’t birds go to my feeder?
Posted on 2/19/18 at 8:50 pm to Telecaster
I have right at 100 different species of birds documented in my yard. I offer a variety of foodstuffs but you'll get the most bang for your buck with just a few things:
- fresh clean water.... everything needs water
- black oil sunflower seeds: Cardinals, Jays, titmice, chickadees, nuthatches, goldfinches, house finches, pine siskins and grosbeaks will all preferentially eat sunflower out of a mixed bag of seed. Might as well just reduce waste and buy this if you only want to buy one thing.
- white millet: in the winter I out out a separate tray of white millet for the sparrows and any buntings that might stop by. Towhee and juncos also like white millet.
- suet or suet/peanut butter mix: in the winter everything will eat this, even birds that are not "feeder birds". This year I've had everything already mentioned above eating in the suet as well as ruby-crowned kinglets, pine warblers, yellow-throated warblers, wrens, and a mockingbird at the suet.
-cracked corn or a TSC "farm mix" tossed on the ground for doves, jays, and squirrels, deer etc
-hummingbird feeder: leave this up year round of you are going to put one up. We actually have a decent number of vagrant over-wintering hummingbirds. If you see a hummingbird from Thanksgiving to March in LA odds are it's not the typical ruby-throated but actually a species from out west that got lost on its way to it's wintering grounds.
- fresh clean water.... everything needs water
- black oil sunflower seeds: Cardinals, Jays, titmice, chickadees, nuthatches, goldfinches, house finches, pine siskins and grosbeaks will all preferentially eat sunflower out of a mixed bag of seed. Might as well just reduce waste and buy this if you only want to buy one thing.
- white millet: in the winter I out out a separate tray of white millet for the sparrows and any buntings that might stop by. Towhee and juncos also like white millet.
- suet or suet/peanut butter mix: in the winter everything will eat this, even birds that are not "feeder birds". This year I've had everything already mentioned above eating in the suet as well as ruby-crowned kinglets, pine warblers, yellow-throated warblers, wrens, and a mockingbird at the suet.
-cracked corn or a TSC "farm mix" tossed on the ground for doves, jays, and squirrels, deer etc
-hummingbird feeder: leave this up year round of you are going to put one up. We actually have a decent number of vagrant over-wintering hummingbirds. If you see a hummingbird from Thanksgiving to March in LA odds are it's not the typical ruby-throated but actually a species from out west that got lost on its way to it's wintering grounds.
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