Q: Last week you explained the reasons that so many bird species prefer black oil sunflower. What about safflower seed? Anne in Lebanon. A: Safflower seed, which is included in many feeding mixes and ...

Safflower seeds typically are pricier than black-oil sunflower seeds but provide high-fat, high-protein content that birds ...

It's tough to be a bird during the winter. Beyond the obviously colder weather, food is certainly scarce. Even if the ground isn't covered with snow, birds still aren't able to maintain their spring ...

Q: I have two bird-feeder questions: Are the inexpensive mixes worth getting? And if we want to have cardinals, what kind of seed should we have? A: For a number of years, I would purchase safflower ...

Backyard bird-feeding can be as simple scattering a bag of general seed mix in some likely spot in the backyard. It also can become an engulfing passion, complete with a plethora of feeder designs ...

More than 52 million Americans feed wild birds or other wildlife around their houses, according to Bird Watching Daily. More than 80% of about 1,300 participants surveyed by Millikin University said ...

Should you get Kaytee wild bird seed? As the first commercial wild bird food supplier in the United States, Kaytee is a respected and popular brand for feeding feathered friends in the backyard.

I've been touting hemp seed for birds, now that it should be widely available when farmers harvest their first now-legal crops of that product. I have some hemp. It's been in a tube feeder on our bird ...

SAN ANTONIO — Early October is a good time to start feeding birds for winter. Sunflower is the most attractive seed for birds such as cardinals, chickadees and titmice. Both black oil seed and the ...

A great window-gazing pleasure is watching how the backyard squirrels can contort themselves into amazing and often comical positions to steal seed from my neighbor's bird feeder. While I might ...