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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...