Seed ID From Birdfood

[seedcorn]

Sparrows will eat anything.... Dang English for importing them.

@Nyboy Assume you can tell difference between the finches and sparrows? Took me a while to be able to tell them apart-I'm a slow learner.

 

[digitS']

Steve do they like millet ?

Yes.

They will take most anything, as Seed' says. However, they don't seem to fight the other birds for the sunflower seeds.

By the way, someone once said that the English sparrows aren't so much English as European and are a type of "Weaver Finch" and not a sparrow.

I don't know what Weaver Finches are but they behave very little like the Song Sparrows. I'm pleased that the male Song Sparrows can set them back on their heels. Our little native garden birds ...

Steve

 

[Nyboy]

I think a squirrel discovered the feeder, filled it yesterday almost empty today. Darn

 

[Carol Dee]

I think a squirrel discovered the feeder, filled it yesterday almost empty today. Darn

Might be a squirrel, might be sparrows and starlings. They can empty a feeder fast. Especially a smallish one. Is there any hulls underneath? Squirrels can/will fill their cheeks and run. Birds tend to drop a lot or eat at the feeder and leave the hulls.

 

[thistlebloom]

Chili or cayenne powder mixed with the seed is supposed to keep squirrels away from the seed. Birds don't have the ...uh....sense receptors? taste buds? whatever it takes to taste spicey heat so it won't bother them.

 

[NwMtGardener]

One bird that empies my feeder in5 seconds flat, on purpose, are the jays. We get Stellars jays and Eastern Blue Jays, and they swing the feeder around until the seed dumps on the ground, because I think they prefer to eat it from the ground. Mess makers! My chickadees and nuthatch don't care that its on the ground, but the house finches prefer it in the feeder.

I feed only BOSS and Nyjer seed, and my favorite bird is the pine siskins that come for the Nyjer, cute lil guys!

 

[Smart Red]

Pterodactyls. That's what my DH said he saw the first time they came to the waterfalls/pond. He had never seen a flock of Cedar Waxwings before. Now we are on their yearly migration route as the chase the ripening cherries Northward in the spring.

 

[Nyboy]

I have a pair of Blue Jays here, I think they chased the Cardinals away. For as long as I can remember there was always a pair here. I haven't seen them in awhile, once they raised 4 babies, quite a sight small flock of 6. I miss them.