A Delightful Menu for Wild Birds

Wild birds, just as humans, have their favorite meals and their least favorite meals. Read on to find out what your feathered friends prefer at their feeding station. A good selection of bird treats and ample cover will attract a wide variety of birds.

All wild birds have their personal favorite meals, but the familiar sunflower seeds are known to be the most popular amongst seed-eater birds. This is meaningful information for bird admirers who would like to attract a number of wild birds to their backyard feeders.This also uncovers why sunflower seed is the main constituent of wild bird seed mixes.

There is a wide selection of wild bird seed mixes for bird feeding, but the majority of mixings are not a favorite among wild birds. There are three main hints for buying wild bird seed. The first tip would be to look at the label. Shrewd shoppers examine the label when they buy food for their households these days. Labels should be studied when purchasing seed mixes, too.

If you hope to bring different kinds of wild birds to your feeders, avoid wild bird mixes in which oats, cereals and/or “mixed grains” are present. Most wild birds reject these foods. An additional tip is to avoid fillers like the mixed grains. Some bird seed mixtures contain “filler” seeds, which make the bag more full, but commonly end up uneaten under your bird feeder since birds eat what they enjoy, and plainly put, it’s not “fillers.”

Birds often brush their bills through their seed and ditch the ones they don’t desire or they dislike on to the ground. Even ground-feeding birds may dismiss the spilled seed. The last pointer in purchasing wild bird seed is to pick out clean bags of food.

Most bird seed is 94 to 95 percent clean, which may sound rather clean, but it means that a 40-pound bag of seed may include over two pounds of inedible material, meaning, more unwanted extras that will drop to the ground. Many sellers are obligated to sieve the bird seed three times to eliminate any empty shells, sticks, leaves and other debris which is ordinarily found in other vendors’ seed bags.

I hope this advice is useful to you. In your pursuit to fill your bird feeders seek feed mixes that contain clean mixes without too much filler. These are the fundamental tips on what your wild birds want and prefer. Keep these three simple steps in mind when you purchase your wild bird seed next and observe the increase in wild birds making their way to your feeders.