bird feed

randm

has anyone any feedback on the countryside wild bird special seed mix, bought from the 99p store.? I have a lot of tits and finches and other small birds visit the peanut and ball feeder i had so i thought i'd get a seed feeder as well, (especially as peanuts are getting so expensive) but i think this mix contains a lot of grains which according to the rspb website are best for pigeons!!!! which is a bit annoying as the pictures on the package of birds it "could" attract are of all the small birds.

greyteam1959

I find that these cheap mixes do contain lots of cheap grains.
The birds in my garden just used to chuck all the cheap stuff out & eat the expensive sunflower kernels !!
Then the pigeons all appear !!
I went onto feeding just sunflower kernels.....expensive though !!

annie123

I've used 99p store seeds for years on the bird table and in feeders. The smaller birds eat what they want then the wood pigeons eat everything else.
I usually have robins, blue tits, long tail tits, wrens, greenfinch, coal tits, wag tails, siskins and an assortment of others, all seem happy with the seeds. I also have home made fat breads and 99p store peanuts too.

shegar

As others have said its full of corn more than anything else, also a lot of cheap feeds contain pink and green bits , these are in fact sweepings off the floor crumbs of dog biscuits, which the birds dont like............

I normally buy a decent quality seed mix, and mix it with sun flower seeds, which attracts all the birds..........It goes alot further that way.......

youngie

home bargains has sunflower hearts 400g £1, dried mealworms 100g £1 and suet pellets with mealworms 500g £1 they are going down well in my garden hope this of use to someone