Bird seed

[hunterhawk]

I usually TRY start feeding the birds (really the squirrels) after Holloween and my garden is done for the year othereise i get mice and rats eating my tomatoes... now the garden is done where do you get the best deal on quality bird seed around here?

[Aloha_Shooter]

I bought the 40 lb club bag of seed at Sam's Club. Don't get the cheapest bag, it's mostly garbage and I had tons of blackbirds coming in for it. When I switched to the more expensive club bag with more sunflower seeds and other good stuff, I got more of the smaller songbirds.

[hunterhawk]

Ya unfortunately I don't have sams or Costco anymore

[Mtneer]

Home Depot for black sunflower seeds. 40# for $22 IIRC.

[mb504]

How's the price compare to murdock's or home depot?

[GilpinGuy]

You can try Wardle Feed (http://wardlefeed.com) in Wheat Ridge. I get my quail feed there and they are awesome folks. Give them a call and see. It's a bit out of the way from Littleton, but close to I-70 so you could drop in during your travels.

[jslo]

Get mine from Murdoch's. 40lb bag of black sunflower seeds, normally around $18. Have heard most "store" bought seed is not formulated for our birds and have come to believe it. I'll watch the birds feed and they constantly would throw out seed until they found what they like. The black, not striped, seem to be what doesn't go to waste. By the birds and squirrels alike.

[Squeeze]

Thank you for posting this. I was considering putting a feeder out now that I have a house and a backyard (no garden yet).

[10x]

Wild bird center fifty pound bags of black oiled sunflower are on sake now in the Springs. Don't know if you have those stores or not. Good clean seed. We get three types of blue jays, woodpeckers, many other types of birds and bears all winter.

[jslo]

Huh? My woodpeckers don't seem to like the sunflower seeds. But they hammer my suet feeder.

[jslo]

Wild bird center fifty pound bags of black oiled sunflower are on sake now in the Springs. Don't know if you have those stores or not. Good clean seed. We get three types of blue jays, woodpeckers, many other types of birds and bears all winter.

If you're talking about Wild Birds Unlimited, there is one around Wadsworth and Yale.

[10x]

The store we use is called Wild Bird Center, not Wild Bird Unlimited. Different companies.

I see one listed at 7800 east hampton in denver. Long way from Littleton.

[flogger]

Tractor supply has some great deals on seed.

[flogger]

Tractor supply has some great deals on seed.

[ChickNorris]

I see you squirrel

[longrange2]

I take a big bag of bird seed from Costco and mix it with a big bag of black oil sunflower seed. Most of it seems to get eaten, I find very little waste on the ground under the feeders.

[10x]

After this discussion, i decided supply was low. I just purchased 50 pounds (2 25 lb. Bags) for $30.29 tax included. October sale.

[SideShow Bob]

After this discussion, i decided supply was low. I just purchased 50 pounds (2 25 lb. Bags) for $30.29 tax included. October sale.

Ummm, we are not mind readers, where at ? (Scratches head emjoy).

[10x]

,Wild Bird Center. I mentioned that store in previous posts.

[Hummer]

I think 10x is buying from the Wild Bird Center. I like to support Wild Bird Center and Wild Birds Unlimited stores when I can but their bird seed price are high compared to Murdochs or some local feed stores. Sam's Club seed is more expensive and has too much white proso millet and wheat which attracts house sparrows, starlings and rodents. More red milo is good for juncos, towhees, jays, and quail.

We use ~120 lbs. of seed a month, sometimes more. At our GJ place we go through a lot of cracked corn to keep the Gambel's Quail population strong. We use less corn in the mountains but the native Band-tailed Pigeons, Steller's Jays, and Dusky Grouse like it. Since moving to the mountains we feed sunflower and suet to a lot of woodpeckers. We make our own suet mix better than the store bought stuff:

1 cup lard
1 cup peanut butter
2 cups quick oats
2 cups corn meal
1 cup flour
1/3 cup sugar

The best suet is the natural soft fat from the back of venison, beef and pork. I always save what I can from elk, deer and pronghorn. This year's moose had almost no fat at all except a little from the skull when I caped it.

[jreifsch80]

I used to make birdseed don?t buy anything with milo in it (cheap stuff) unless you want to feed black birds and crows. Song birds like black oil sunflower seeds (especially hearts) Millet (white, red German gold whatever) safflower also some like niger which is thistle that has made to where it won?t grow.

[Aloha_Shooter]

I missed the October sale but bought a 25 lb bag of the black oil sunflower seeds for $19 at Wild Bird Center. Ended up buying their pole system to get one feeder up higher than the stupid squirrels can reach and a top shield for the other feeder to frustrate the stupid squirrels from jumping down off the tree.