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Delivering bliss to your backyard.

 
by Nancy Heide
 

Here's a handy chart to the preferences of our feathered friends.
 

  white proso millet fine cracked corn black oil sunflower black striped sunflower hulled raw sunflower niger (thistle) safflower raw peanuts suet fruit slices
nuthatches               x x  
thrushes                 x  
titmice       x       x x  
warblers                 x  
woodpeckers                 x  
wrens x             x x  
grosbeaks   x x x       x    
sparrows x x x x x     x    
towhees   x                
mourning doves x   x x x x        
redpolls x                  
blue jays   x   x       x x  
cardinals x x x x     x   x  
crows                 x  
chickadees     x x       x x  
coal tits                 x  
flickers                 x  
finches x   x x   x   x x  
jackdaws                 x  
juncos               x x  
kinglets                 x  
grackles     x x       x    
cowbirds x                  
blackbirds                   x
bluetits                   x
catbirds                   x
fieldfares                   x
orioles                   x
redwings                   x
robins                   x
tanagers                   x

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