Bird Watching: Who is eating what, 1 by pollengarden

pollengarden wrote:
I did a little experiment to see what birds preferred which food.
1 quartered apples, peanut butter, whole Peanuts, whole Corn, cracked Corn, wheat/red milo, safflower, white millet, Nyjer/thistle, black-oil Sunflower seed, (& water)
2 The birds I want to attract preferred Black Sunflower seeds, Safflower as a second choice, and Nyjer as a distant 3rd (maybe because it was on a table instead of in a tube feeder?)
3 Doves (which are a nuisance here) preferred cracked corn, along with Red-winged blackbirds
4 Squirrels and Jays preferred whole peanuts. Squirrels 2nd was apple slices, 3rd whole corn. Jays second choice was Black Sunflower seeds.
All basically ignored Peanut butter, Wheat, Milo, Millet, & nearly ignored Nyjer