Which Seed To Chose For Which Birds in Your Bird feeding Garden
Which seed for which birds
You can actually control witch birds you like to attract to your bird feeding garden and witch ones you like to keep out of your garden. So, it is important you learn about which seed will attract which birds. Find out and discuss with your family what birds everyone would like to visit your garden more frequent and then choose the right seed. Of course there is no guarantee that no unwanted birds will show up, but it is definitely worth the try and the fun you get out of it.
Here is a list of different birds paired up with there choice of seed:
Mourning Dove Cracked corn, millet, black oil and hulled sunflower seeds and canary
Northern Cardinal Mixed seed, safflower seeds, striped black-oil, and hulled sunflower
Woodpecker Suet, bird pudding, peanut-butter mixes
Nuthatch Black-oil sunflower, bird pudding
Nuthatch Suet, sunflower seeds, hulled peanuts, peanut hearts, peanut-butter
mixes and bird pudding
Jays Striped sunflower seeds, peanuts in shell, mixed seeds, black-oil
Sunflower seeds, cracked or whole corn and hulled peanuts
Red-bellied Striped sunflower seeds, suet, bird pudding and peanut mixes
Native sparrows Millet, cracked corn and hulled sunflower seeds
Juncos Cracked corn, millet seeds, and hulled sunflower seeds
Titmice Black-oil sunflower seeds, peanut-butter mixes, bird pudding
Hulled sunflower seeds, safflower seeds and sunflower seeds
Grosbeaks Striped, black-oil and hulled sunflower seeds
Chickadees Black-oil and striped sunflower seeds, safflower seeds, hulled
Peanuts, suet, peanut-butter mixes and suet pudding
House Finch Safflower, nyger seeds, black-oil hulled, and striped sunflower
Purple Finch Hulled, striped black-oil sunflower seeds
Redpolls Hulled sunflower seeds, nyger seeds, and striped, black-oil
Sunflower seeds
Goldfinch Nyger seeds, canary, black-oil, and hulled sunflower seeds
