Pennington Pride Waste-Free Blend, Wild Bird Seed for Outside Feeders, With Sunflower Chips for Attracting Songbirds, No-Hull and No-Waste, 10-lb. Bag

I have this in a feeder for smaller birds, and the finches, sparrows and chickadees really seem to like it, but they really make a mess on our patio, throwing a lot on the ground. I don't know if they are trying to get certain seeds but they really throw a lot of the sunflower seeds out. But then the squirrels, chipmunks and doves get to eat also. I doubt if I will buy this again as it is a bit pricey for the quantity.

Better price than other millet/small seed blends. Fresh smelling and very minimal debris.

Brings cardinals, chick a Dee, woodpecker, finch and unfortunately squirrels! At least the birds enjoy it for a few days before the squirrels completely gobble it up.

I like getting large bags of birdseed rather than the 2 pound bag at the grocery store. Much more economical. The shelves on the birdseed are in the bag and make a mess on the porch floor. There are very small seeds as well, which make a mess as I am filling the birdfeeder and hanging up the birdfeeder. Amazon asks me about freshness and flavor. How would I know about flavor? Or freshness?

This was a blind buy for me. Most of the time I go to the store to pick out our bird seed, so I can make sure I'm not just getting an overpriced bag of filler, like millet. Don't get me wrong, there are birds that enjoy millet and it has it's place in a good bag of feed, but I want a variety - one that includes a nice supply of black oil sunflower seeds, because the birds absolutely LOVE them!I was very pleasantly surprised and quite pleased with this seed blend. It is a wonderful mix that did in fact contain a large percentage of that black gold (i.e. sunflower seeds). Pennington Select "Birders Blend" has drawn in all the birds and provided us with hours upon hours of bird watching enjoyment.Apparently this mix is a very popular choice among birders, because when I came back here to buy another bag, it was only available through third parties (with a $20 price hike). I drove straight on to the Pets Mart and got myself another bag, for the price I originally paid here.If you can get your hands on this seed blend, I very highly recommend it! We've had multiple types of woodpeckers, cardinals, jays, doves, the beautiful (and sadly endangered) painted buntings, warblers, nuthatches, black birds, and many more that I don't know the names of (without consulting our identification book). I live in South Florida.

As described, birds love it’

Late last year I bought a big bag of Pennington Pride Wild Finch blend to use in a small feeder I keep on a shepherd's hook at the edge of my garden. It has done very well attracting medium-sized birds like doves and grackles and sparrows, but I hardly see any finches. A couple in the evening, and a Carolina chickadee, but nothing else. I thought maybe it was the location of the feeder, because I had loads of finches last summer when I had it hanging -- filled with a different brand of finch seed -- from a tree at the edge of the woods. But the squirrels got to it, so I got the shepherd's hook and, by chance, the Pennington Pride Wild Finch blend.In late April, things started popping up in the garden, as they tend to do. I noticed a bunch of seedlings that looked a lot like corn; I assumed they were brought by birds from the cornfields a couple hundred yards back from my house. I pulled some, but left a few just to see watch them grow. It's now the first week of June and it's clear that this isn't corn at all, but rather millet, and that they weren't a welcome gift from the birds but an unwelcome artifact of the bird seed.Like a wacky conspiracy theory in the head of basement-dwelling crank, it all came together: the Pennington Pride Wild Finch blend is heavy on millet. Now, every red-blooded finch loves millet -- and what's not to love? -- but do does every two-bit mourning dove and sun-sheened grackle. And those big fellas eat A LOT. So, at the end of the day, at the beginning of the day I'm feeding a bunch of mourning doves and grackles, and at the middle of the day I'm feeding a few finches and other little songbirds, and at the end of the day -- every day -- I'm filling my bird feeder with more Pennington Pride Wild Finch mix.I might solve my problem by buying a different feeder, where the bigger birds can't get a toehold. But I think I'll solve it by giving Pennington Pride Wild Finch mix the old shepherd's hook and going back to a brand with less millet and more thistle and nyjer.*This is not legal advice. Your mileage may vary. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Tell your doctor if you have HIV or acne or if you like the Talking Heads song "Blind". If your goldfinches feed for more than four hours, see a doctor.

Birds like it

The wild birds love this food, problem now is they invited there friend and family to dine and my 10 lb bag is going down quick