Different seeds for different beaks: Blue jays like whole peanuts. Mourning doves enjoy millet. But chickadees, like the one above, prefer black-oil sunflower seeds.
Of the 15 million acres of black-oil sunflower seeds planted, 20% of that will go to bird food. November is the prime time to harvest the seeds.
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Exploring Nature: Birdseed Bonanza
Sun, 11/26/2023 - 5:00am
I have a tubular bird feeder hanging under the roof eaves of my back deck and I fill it daily with black-oil sunflower seeds. I am in good company when it comes to feeding birds. A recent study showed that nearly 57 million people in the U.S. feed wild birds. They spend a whopping four billion dollars on the hobby. That’s a billion with a “b.”
