How to Feed Wild Birds, Best Bird Seed We Feed Tons Daily To Attract Insect Eating Birds to a Garden 

I have been buying the bird seed from Costco for years. It's the Wagner's western regional blend. I have hundreds of birds and never see dead birds anywhere. The number of birds seems to increase all the time. I go through 40 pounds of seed every three weeks. They eat everything in the mix including the sunflower shells. I have many mourning doves, quail and sparrows. I am in the Southern California Palm Springs area. I throw the seed out and the birds ground feed. I do not put it in containers. The seed is gone within two hours. I throw the seed out on clean dirt areas. I also have 15 hummingbird feeders each one has 10 feeding ports and on busy days have a bird on each port, sometimes two birds sharing a port. I make my own nectar and go through 20 to 30 pounds of sugar a month. I have never had a problem with the bird seed from Costco and it is more affordable than pet store seed.

All the birds that visit your garden are just gorgeous! I really love your video clips of them eating the seeds you put out for them 😊

You inspire my family so much Robbie. Thank you!!!😘🧚‍♀️

Your photography is amazing Robbie. Thank you so much

I wish you were my neighbor. You are so nice..

You have the best heart to buy the seeds for pet birds! It's like all the wild birds are your pets. Love that!

This malaysian lady enjoys all of ur videos n I use tips . You make gardening so easy . Tq so much

Robbie u absolutely ROCK 💯!!! So glad I found ur channel!!!

So much good info... I’m just starting this process and I see it working!! I had no idea the hummingbirds ate aphids etc. wow!!

That was so informative, Robbie. Thank you, so very much for all the info. I will put out some more bird feeders now!!

Thank you so much for everything you’re sharing about birds and they food, you really got me into. Today I bought birds houses, birds feeders, hummingbirds feeders......lots of seeds, dry worms, I ordered some orioles feeders ...and guess what, today ,my balcony was full of birds ? Thank you so much again!💐💐💐

Love your garden.. it’s my dream backyard!!

Thank you so much Robbie for all the nice advice that you gave to us .You are a very good person and sure that God bless you .You love so much animals like we do here .I hope you have a million's of subscription

I find your bird videos so relaxing! Thank you for filming!

Robbie, I saw one of these nature bird feeder companies mix chili pepper into suet and then mix in the seeds. Birds can't taste capsaicin but squirrels and others can. Bark Butter, that's what they call it. Supposed to be it's good to feed this in the summer too. I was feeding suet with seeds last year in those hangers. The Redwing blackbirds were feasting away but they were messy. The wood pigeons would eat whatever fell but it still attracted rats. Given that the rats ate my neighbours chilipeppers in October, I doubt that chili seasoning works longterm. Today I'm putting up the Hummingbird feeder again. See what happens.

Such wonderful information!!! Thank you so very much! I’m pretty new to gardening but have been taking care of my backyard animals for years. I learned so very much, and I will not buy crappy birdseed ever again! Thank you!

I am on the east coast. I have been really enjoying feeding my yard birds.....and the squirrels! I just love the squirrels! I now can feed them by hand...its so cool.. they are very gentle! This spring I am going to try to feed from my lap or from my shoulder....I can't wait! Thank you for your info-packed video!

Thank you Robbie! I always enjoy your information great 👍

I have 2 seed feeders here in Denver Colorado. One has black oil sunflower seeds, and the other has Safflower seeds. My finches love both, along with thistle seed in a mesh sock. 💜🕊💜

First of all, I want to say I really enjoy your videos. I love my flowers and vegetable garden. I also love feeding the birds. My wife and I live in Indiana. We live in the country, and have a big variety of birds. We usually feed just black oil sunflower. We feed the finch and indigo bunting niger seed. Keep up the good work.

Beautiful. Thank you for all the information. 💕 Your birds are gorgeous. I feed birds myself. 💕

You are so knowledgable! Thanks for sharing your tips!

Hi Robbie, great video, great tips, great garden, great personality. Thank you from central Canada.

Thank you for the educational video. 😁👍🐦

Love you information about seed ' thank you. Birds...Barbie.

Yes more birds thanks for a awesome video

What an amazing Video. I think on your side of the pond What you call Gold Finches is very different to our Gold Finches, wow what a nice little bird. I grow tons of thistles for my bees. and to stop them spreading and becoming a nuisance we harvest all the seeds and what we do not re sow we feed to the Birds and they go barmy for the seeds in winter, Gold finches,Green finches linnets sparrows pigeons all seem to love them. You are so right about feeding different things to different birds.

I love birds very much. Your nature around- wonderful

I believe you when you talk about the squirrels...squirrels in my yard come out of the trees with tool belts and learned how to operate my kid’s Tonka Trucks. That one squirrel that plagues me must be the site foreman...hard hat and clipboard. 🥴🥴🥴👍🏼

Thanks you helped the birds in my area a lot🙏🏼

Thank you for your Awesome tips. We have lots of Doves they love cracked corn to. ✝️💟

Nice to see the differences in birds from one coast to the other. I live in Maryland and back up to the woods, 150 ft trees. We also feed the birds year round. Lots of incredible woodpeckers. My favorite being “Woody Woodpecker”. They come right up on my deck and eat the suet all winter long. They can eat a lot of suet 😀 I do put my peanuts in a cage after reading some of the birds could have trouble with swallowing them whole. Not sure if that is true or not. The woodpeckers love to cling on the cage and eat away. I love it when the birds bring their babies up on the deck and show them how to eat from the feeders. Cardinals, Blue Birds, Cat Birds, and the little guys all squeaking for mom and dad to feed them, so precious. I feed the shelled sunflowers in my deck so there is no mess and everyone eats them up, even the Yellow Finches and Blue Birds. We have the sweet Doves that come to the platform feeder. So many beautiful birds!! Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us.

Thank you , lots of great information!

Love your videos. This one was great. I am from NH so I do use suet i the winters.

Wow! Excellent. Thank you so much. I learned so much from this video!

Great Info: been buying 50 pound sack black sunflower seed takes six months to use up. I have been buying farm feed grade seed. The suet I make my own proper beef fat from prime rib for example, peanut butter, good seeds, (milo or millet ) I form it in a wax or parchment paper lined aluminum pie tin as a mold. During winter months birds nibble on it. Summer is the scarce time for food in my opinion

Thank you for this video!

I love this woman like was a really cool Aunt or something... I'll sit and just absorb her videos 👏👏👏👏👏👏🤠💘🤙👍🙌

Love this video. Thanks

Great camera work. I have never seen a spice finch! Love your videos. 💕

Your videos make me so happy I get excited just like you over the birds

Your channel is so beautiful im up to 16 feeders now I love every bird I see. Thanks for the info... from another southern Californian

Going to add peanuts for the birds, thanks Robbie!! Great info as always. Blessings to you and Gary, and much love. 🤗💖🐦

Those spice finches are ADORABLE! I've never seen one before. We have a good feed store here in our valley, so I'll go tomorrow and check out their prices. A 25 pound bag, for me, would be GREAT!!!!!

Hi Robin...our robins already left end of August along with my magnificent Ruby throated hummingbirds, blue jays, and our Monarch butterflies. I envy your sunny southern California. I have lived in Toronto (Canada) swinging from minus 40 degrees Celsius (- 40 Fahrenheit)to unbelievable plus 43 C (110 Fahrenheit) in summer (that's a phenomenal 150 degree change each year.)

I recently found your channel, and have enjoyed your video . You have inspired me to do some outdoor work to enjoy the birds and other wildlife.

I learned so much. Thank you. I'm going to refill our bird feeder today by buying some pet seeds. We have 1 squirrel that comes around too. No hummingbirds came by this year though.

What a beautiful video!

I have just put out de-icers for my fountains to keep them from freezing so my birds will have fresh running water all winter. I have bought my seed from the pet store as well as our local feed store. In that, I put out a feeder with black oil sunflower seed, a Nyjer sock with Nyjer seed for the finches, another feeder is a suet cage where I have made a brick of food which is bird seed mix mixed in with peanut butter, which they absolutely love!!! Also a handful of whole peanuts in a shallow terra cotta pot in the crook of a tree for the scrub jays, stellar jays and the wood peckers! All of the seed is gone in one day and I refill daily.❤️

I keep my seed outside with tight metal-lidded galvanized cans. Nothing gets in or out. Right now I just have one tube feeder that I fill with sunflower chips that I buy at a feed store in 50# bags. Thanks for the tips on what you feed your birds. I'm going to try some bowls like you have and I'll make sure to bring them in at night. I mostly get house finches and goldfinches. I have seen a rat scarfing up the sunflower chips that get thrown to ground occasionally. I definitely don't want to encourage rats, ugh! I also have lots of squirrels. The squirrels can't get to the hanging bird feeder. The squirrels will eat what gets thrown on the ground also. They are getting lots of peanuts from somewhere. I find peanuts planted in all my pots. Thanks for sharing all your knowledge.

Love your show.

Awesome video. Thanks.

We've found that the finches love thistle, but we learned to ONLY buy from a nearby wild bird store that guarantees no pesticides. They love it. We have to have sooooo much seed, we do keep it outside near our feeders. We have been using a metal garbage can with cover that we bought new, just for this purpose, and we bungy cord the top to secure it. So far, not even the racoons have been able to get into it.

Never thought wild bird seed could cause such problems. A park area is next to my apt. Building. So 2 practice my photography is helpful, but want to feed them healthy ingredients. Thank you for your guidance . You have a nice yard.

Thank you, I would love to visit your wonderland. But I understand privacy issues. Enjoy watching your videos.

Wow...I'm about a 3 month viewer...I luv your videos...this one is soooo full of info..luv your way making their seeds...

Pipi , thanks for the suggestion..... will consider

My mother loves bird's so much her name is Robin love ya

Thanks, great content.

Thank you sweetheart ❤️

Robbie, I just love birds too. I’m filling my land with a permaculture food forest which includes tons of fruit trees. People ask me “why so many fruit trees, what are you going to with all that fruit”? To share with the birds if corse!🌸 🐣🦉🐥

I live in the Northeast; homemade suet in the winter is great, also pine cones smeared with peanut butter and parakeet seeds is also a wonderful winter treat. You can buy pine cones but take a walk in the woods and pick your own up off the ground. Pine cone size does not really matter. Tie the pine cones with heavy twine or fishing cord and hang in trees, if you have Shepard’s hooks, tie the cones there.

Hi robbie iam Alem from australia i just want to say you are very lucky with how much birds in your garden i hardly see any in mine

We have 2-3 squirrels that eat the sunflower seeds and leave rest of mix for the birds. Have to get a hanging feeder. You have lots of larger birds. We get blue Jays, doves, Cardinals, finches,sometimes woodpeckers in fall. Thanks for info.

They love the suet in spring till babies leave nest,woodpeckers love it , pepper suet they love 👍

You can get red pepper suet off Amazon, love your videos ,gets real cold here on AshevilleNC, HUMMERS LEAVE till spring 🦋🍲🦋

Thank you! (:

Thankyou so much

Great video.

Hi madam, I am from 🇮🇳, I am Sunil Bhakta. I had been watching your videos, it's really cool and awesome. Thanks for it.

Great info! 👊🏻😎👊🏻

Also my dogs has a water bowl and turtle sandbox that I clean and just added water too. 2 out 3 of my dogs love the turtle sandbox that I call the turtle pool. The bird love these 2 container for water. I'm also seen frog underneath and swimming in the turtle pool but only seen them in dog bowl water. I love watching bird dive in for drink in morning outside my kitchen window which hard to do to high of where the window is.

So jealous I want to visit I can’t do hardly any of this because I live in Chicago northwest suburbs Good job Love your videos

Hehe - when we were living in Washington state we had a black bear stand up and get into our bird feeder! They do like bird seed, and so did the deer.

Yay, just got an idea for a tree stump in my yard :-) ,

I love how you love and get excited about your birds. I love birds also, but we habe a cat that kills yhem which really upsets me. Im tring to come up with a way to feed and protect thrm. If you have any ideas please share with me.

Thank you Robbie ,I'm here in Virginia. I get Chickadees Blue Birds, Redbirds, meny others .I just purchased a bag of [ premium Song Bird food .has fruit and nuts in it from Wallmart.

I feed nijer seed, safflower seed and black striped sunflower seeds. The house sparrows and starlings dont eat or enjoy any of the seeds. I also have Oriole feeders, hummingbird feeders and a platform feeder for mealworms. Along with suets. I have goldfinch, house finch, rose breasted grosbeak, nuthatchs, titmouses, a few tree sparrows are still hanging around. Wood peckers when I put suets out. I trap house sparrows and dont have that many since I stopped feeding seed mix. I also only have starlings on me suets when i put them out. I live near st. Louis Missouri.

Hi! I'm a new subbie. Love the birds! I'm in NorCal, & have found that birds go gaga for black oil sunflower seeds. They have a higher fat content. Also, if you want to see Oak Tits, put out some black thistle seed. They live at the tops of oak trees & are very shy. They're a tiny grey bird with a mohawk. At first they'll dart in & out to grab the seed, but as they get comfortable, they will stick around & hang with the other birds. Black thistle seed is pricey, but 1 pound goes a long way. Our local feed store carries it.

Hello. I love your videos!! What is the plant that the goldfinches are eating on?? I’m in Northern CA. hopefully I can grow it here?

I actually have seen golden finches at my bird feeder but it only happened once a year. This was in South Georgia.

The issues with the bird food were 8 years ago, and are no longer happening. I buy commercial bird seed and our birds are thriving. I do buy most of my feed at a farm store.If you buy a mix, avoid anything with milo/red milo. It's cheap filler and most birds won't eat it. Safflower seed works well to discourage the squirrels, who aren't discouraged by baffles, . "squirrel proof" feeders, or "hot" mixes. I have had some success with liquid hot pepper, but it's expensive and hard to use. I am currently experimenting with red pepper powder (you can buy it in bulk in Asian food stores), and canola oil to keep it clinging to the seed!

Twenty one minutes is not short😆 love your videos ❤️

Thanks so much for editing in the examples! And for the great info and recipe. You are a garden genius. The knowledge is woven into intricate lace but for those who can grab ahold of the thread, the story is invaluable.

It's a little more costly but I started buying sunflower hearts. This reduces the waste and the birds can sit and eat more thus increasing my viewing pleasure.

Auntie Pati tells me to feed our creatures dollar tree peanuts...... Her squirrels.... Doesn't matter. But... The fancy raccoons....aren't they all so precious? 😊

Very good

Most of my birds love sunflower seeds and I feed the smaller birds Niger seeds

After my cats passed away, I thought, well - I can feed birds now! I LOVED it! ...until I found out that - what the birds miss, the rats come for. Dang iT! Sticking to hummers now.

I have hung out small logs with 2" holes drilled into them and stuffed them with peanut butter and see mix in the winter instead of the store bought suet. I just didnt like the ingredients I saw, and the peanut oil provides a source of fat for them in the winter. I thought only the wood peckers would go for it, but my chickadees and other birds went for it as well. I found that more birds hung around in the winter as well, which is great here in the North East when most of them fly south.

I DIDNT KNOW THAT ROBBIE, THANK YOU FOR TELLING ME

I include a dough cake similar to suet cakes, but don't melt for my birds. I feed a peanut blend and every neighborhood bird parents except Robins feeds their babies this soft food. I had a Robin eat from a seed feeder once! They usually never eat off feeders. I lived in Albuquerque NM and now in Coeur d'Alene ID and the birds love the peanut dough cakes the best.

i took in a finch a couple months ago.... he was super cute, sadly he was sick, he died, but he died with love, and in peace, and in a warm place.... ever since then i just been feeding finches

Absolutly nice kakaak good garden will you want make agood aviary for breding all sweet bird so sweet alright😊👍mister

Do ya think that the feed their given the birds back East might have something to do with the Birds dyen off back there? Sure do like the way you love them birds. You're a good young lady. thank you.

This was a very informative video Robbie I give veggies eggs fruits also flax seeds ... They love them I buy organic ones ♥️♥️♥️♥️

I love the Scrub Jay!

"Nutritionally, it is perfectly fine to give your birds an occasional piece of bread. If you do feed bread to your birds, be sure that it is not moldy, as some bread molds are toxic to birds. Also, do not put out more than the birds will eat, as it will mold quickly." I stopped feeding bread to birds years ago. We have squirrels and chipmunks here so my feeders were always baffled. We also have hawks so having feeders in a more protected area was always a "must".

I live in West TN, North of Memphis and have a lot of Cardinals and a pair of woodpeckers (with red heads, can't remember the name) My seed comes from my local Tractor Supply, because a pet store is over an hour away and I won't buy from grocery stores or discount stores. Occasionally, I've picked up seed from Home Depot if my Tractor Supply is out.

So I can grow fresh bird seed into plants? Wow!!!