Mar 17, 2016 | Featured Web Article

Bird Feeding Tip: Try Sunflower Hearts

Sunflower hearts may be more expensive, but they last longer at a backyard feeder—and they are more accessible to birds with weaker bills.
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If I were to pick only one food to offer at my feeding station, it would be sunflower hearts. Yes, they're expensive, but a bag of sunflower hearts (no shells, just the meat of the seed) lasts more than three times as long as a bag of seeds with shells. Not only this, but every species that comes to my feeding station eats them. Being hull-less, hearts are accessible to weaker-billed birds, like siskins, redpolls and Carolina wrens. Goldfinches love them, too.

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