Sparrows and junkets love tiny red, golden or white millet seeds, though they favour the white variety. Since both birds prefer eating on or near the ground, scatter millet there, near bushes and trees for safe refuge. This favourite of goldfinches is the most expensive seed, usually poured into special feeders with holes too small for all but fine-billed goldfinches, redpolls and pine siskins. Chickadees and mourning doves also love niger seed and sometimes learn to knock on a feeder until the seeds fall out the holes onto the tray. To educate the uninitiated, leave a few partially opened peanuts in the feeder.
Blue jays catch on quickly.
Get them hooked and they come back often. While not a seed, in winter chickadees, nuthatches, woodpeckers and blue jays enjoy suet for needed extra calories. Place raw suet in onion bags and nail onto a piece of wood tied to the side of a tree. You can also melt suet in a double boiler and mix in seeds, honey and corn meal. Replace suet as needed until spring.